Blink and you’ll miss it! That old adage doesn’t half ring true now! Just like that, the dream was over. So was it all worth it? Was it worth the planning, the upheaval, the expense? Was it worth the 36 weeks of painful home schooling? Was it worth not seeing family and friends…

Pretty ominous title right. Don’t worry though, this isn’t gonna be a 90s horror based blog about us finally meeting some form of horrendous and inescapable pre-determined doom. But it is, quite literally, our final destination. As surreal as it seems, we’ve only got a week left on our trans-global adventure, and that…

One more week in Hong Kong, and the reality is slowly starting to dawn that the whole trip is now slowly drawing to a close. In less than seven days we will be jetting off to our final country, number twenty three of the trip I believe, and before we know it we’ll…

Like most people, I tend to think of Hong Kong as being a heaving metropolis, filled with towering high rise blocks and bustling with the to-ings and fro-ings of its 7 million residents. And, it is that. But not only that. There is a huge amount of open, green space outside the city,…

When we first started planning this trip, we knew that Hong Kong had to be on the list. Even though Kate was born in Swindon, she was born to Cantonese parents and raised in Hong Kong for a significant part of her childhood, and still very much views it as her cultural home.…

The first thing that hit us on exiting the plane as we landed into Hanoi was the cloying heat. I’m fine with hot, we’ve had a lot of hot weather on this trip, but most of that has been a reasonably dry desert-like heat. Japan was a bit more humid, but still bearable.…

After two hours of 180mph serenity, our bullet train arrived in the cultural and historical heart of Japan, Kyoto. This town served as the capital of Japan for over 11 centuries until it was eventually moved to Tokyo under the Meiji Restoration, and because it was spared any widespread destruction during World War…

We finally touched down in the Land of the Rising Sun, ready to start our whirlwind 9 day Japan taster trip. Our travel agent in the UK had arranged for a local rep to meet us at Narita airport, to hand over our various rail tickets and passes and explain how to use…

A few short hours after leaving LAX, we touched down on the island of Oahu in Hawaii. We had all been looking forward to a brief pit stop in this tropical island paradise, and since we were only going to be here for a few days, we decided to use the Hotels.com reward…

Our 42 day trip through the United States was rapidly drawing to a close. We had only 3 nights left to spend in our RV before returning it in LA and boarding a plane for the next part of our adventure. After leaving the Sierra Nevada mountains, we headed back to the Pacific…