General

Sorry for all those folks that read this, but we’ve been less than good at keeping this up to pace. We’ll try to keep the posts coming!

We went back home a couple days ago, and started unpacking and furnishing up our new place again getting ready to start our previous lives…. it’s as if we hit the PAUSE button a year ago, and RESUME. Nothing’s changed much around us, but for the most part we ourselves have changed and the transition won’t be as easy as it seems.

365 days went by in a blur.
And we wouldn’t trade it for the world.

Well, if anyone noticed, we’ve updated our blog rather quickly the past days….the reason is because we’ve been stuck in Salta in Argentina because there’s a country-wide strike for bus drivers wanting a 23% increase in wages. To offset inflation, 23% really isn’t that bad, so it makes sense…..

The main page only goes up to 5 posts on the main, so help yourself and look at some previous posts with some pretty pictures on it =D

We’ll be travelling to Bolivia, and we’re not sure how the internet connection would be, but the updates may slow down again!

It’s true, we’ve been missing in action, and yes, we were also at Miami International Airport (MIA).

Our travels will resume shortly next week, starting in Mexico City!! For now, we’re just taking a vacation…from our vacation…

It’s hard to imagine we’ve already been on the road for 100 days, and despite the amount of time traveled we’ve still only been to a small part of a single country. It doesn’t sound like much, but we never really intended to squeeze as many things we possibly can like most tourists with only a limited amount of vacation (like most readers of our blog *wink wink*) =P Continue reading →

It’s been a while, and for a period of about 5 days we were cut off from all modern things as we’ve lost our phones, and our laptop charger died on us so we had to order one which took 5 days to get shipped!! As cool as Lhasa is, it definitely isn’t convenient for most other things as it’s pretty freakin’ far away.

So we took a 4 day detour and am now wired back to the world. Oh we miss you, Interweb.

Back home, I read an ad saying Air Canada was voted North America’s best airline, which brought up the question, are the rest really that bad?

To save a few bucks, we had to take an early morning stop-over in San Fran before arriving in Shanghai on United Airlines. I’d have to say, AC has a new standard it can measure against. Flying WestJet from YYZ -> YVR, we were amazed at the service they always advertise. It’s True!!!

Unfortunately for United, they have a lot of work to do. It started with the luggage check-in, uncoordinated would be a good way to describe it. Printers would print random boarding passes from 5 rows over, people running around, unhelpful workers not helping anyone. AND we had to lug our luggage and line up for 10mins to put it onto the conveyer belt. Like, really? Come on!

Inside the cabin the seats were rather cramped, and although it is an international flight, there was no personal TV so I was stuck watching John Carter for 3hours. The cabin crew was not just unhelpful, they were pretty rude. And the food? AC has better food!!! UN-BELIEVABLE!!!

Spare for actually getting there safely, and not losing our luggage, United manage to make flying a horrible experience.