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The Last Hurrah
So here it is….10 months later. It’s been mostly finished, except for photos, since June. It’s a long one; I’ve had lots of time to add and edit lol. I’ve started and re-started this post so many times. Maybe I felt like if I finished that the adventure is over, maybe getting back to real…
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Bali – The Land of the Gods
We always knew we’d be back and fourteen years later we found ourselves landing back in Bali, “The Land of the Gods.” All of us were excited to get there. Mark and I were looking forward to revisiting the place where we got married and the kids were beyond excited to see Auntie Heather (Mark’s…
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Good Morning Vietnam
The Vietnam I know comes from watching Rambo movies with my cousin Matt in the 80’s. After meeting Mark I moved on to Deer Hunter, Apocalypse Now and Platoon (the latter of which he knows by heart – way too many movie quotes on this leg of the trip) – so, I guess you could…
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Cambodia
Our official entry to Cambodia came on foot. We walked 800m between the Laos and Cambodian border, filled out the paperwork for our visas and walked another 500m to look for the small restaurant where we were supposed to meet our van to move onto Siem Reap. There were only a few hole in the…
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Laos
This portion of our trip started out with something I’d really been looking forward to: a slow boat down the Mekong river to deliver us to Luang Prabang. Getting from the Thai border to the boat was easy enough, but time consuming….like a lot of other things in SEA. We reached the Loas border by…
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Sand, Santa and Sunshine
I know what everyone is thinking. What better place to spend Christmas but in the Middle Eastern desert, right? Well, for us this was the next best thing to being home. Arriving in Doha was reverse culture shock. Gone were the noises, smells and chaos of India. We were in the richest country in the…
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In the footsteps of the ol’ vet
After our Grossglockner drive leaving Austria heading to Italy, we thought we were in the clear in terms of mountain roads. This may have been something we should have researched a little more. Once the alpine drive is finished there is no main highway going to Venice from that point. The fastest way is to…
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Our feet are the same (this will make sense if you read this post).
Those who know us know that the Robertson’s are not afraid of a road trip. We’ve driven to Florida more times than I can keep track of and did a 25 day cross Canada/America road trip two summers ago….with no electronic devices for the kids. Just books, games and music. So, we didn’t give the…
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God created the world, but the Dutch created the Netherlands!
When we told people one of places we were planning to visit was the Netherlands, a common reaction was, “Amsterdam will be great.” To be honest, I didn’t do a lot of research about anything but Amsterdam before we left. I knew The Anne Frank House was a “must do”, but I figured we’d decide…
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Waffles, chocolate and beer! Oh my! (and fries too).
Ok, so Belgium wasn’t all about the food and drinks, but the food and drinks were dynamite!!! We stayed in a house we rented through Airbnb just outside of Bruges. It was pretty new and had a big yard. There is a “but” coming here….. but, it was the first place we stayed where someone…
Our Long and Winding Road 