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Category: Asia

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Trip, Interrupted

October 15, 2020June 14, 2021 by allison

So, remember that time I dusted off the blog, wrote three posts, then … nothing else … for a year? Right, well, uh, hi ?, how are you? How’s 2020? Though I haven’t been writing lately, I did sit down and compile our videos. Here is my best attempt at squeezing 7 wonderful months into …

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Family Vacation 2018

June 11, 2018June 14, 2021 by allison

In May 2018 we did our first “big” (trans-continental) trip to Asia with two kids (aged 1 and 4). And it was worth every minute. We didn’t write about this one, but we did produce a short video!

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Suters in Asia

June 5, 2018August 26, 2022 by allison

[I decided to add this video to the blog in 2022 (for posterity). I actually did create and publish this video in 2018!] When Will and Clara were 1 and 4 years old, we decided to take them on a three week trip to Shanghai, Thailand, and Hong Kong. Travelling with littles is never easy, …

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Is this really the end?

May 30, 2009June 14, 2021 by jonathan

Yes‚ we’re home. And that, ladies and gentlemen, was around the world in 365 days. We wandered around the desert metropolis of Dubai and played in what could be the world’s best water park; we saw the ancient ruins of Petra, spent a night in the desert, rode camels, shared a sheesha with a rescue …

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Expenses: Asia, NZ, South America

May 11, 2009August 30, 2017 by allison

Well, we are back in Canada! Can you believe that a year went by so fast? I certainly can’t. Over the next week or two we are going to have a series of posts with lots of statistics about our trip – including the $64,000 question. This post is the third of three posts about …

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Welcome to Cool Japan

February 17, 2009June 12, 2021 by jonathan

Japan. Everyone thinks they know a thing or two about the Land of the Rising Sun. Be it through an unhealthy obsession with ninjas, playing Super Mario Brothers 3, driving a Toyota, or taking a picture with your Sony camera, we’ve all come in contact with Japan in some fashion. So, before we begin, I …

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… and I said yes!

January 18, 2009June 12, 2021 by allison

As many of you know, it was in Hong Kong where Jon and I started dating. It was from Hong Kong that we took our first trip together. It was when Jon was leaving Hong Kong that we decided that it would be worth it to spend the next six months in an extremely long …

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African vs. Japanese Infrastructure

January 9, 2009June 12, 2021 by allison

The New Oxford American Dictionary defines “infrastructure” as “the basic physical and organizational structures and facilities (e.g., buildings, roads, and power supplies) needed for the operation of a society or enterprise.“

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