Seriously, though, with my knees, we won't be jumping this much.
Welcome back to Checkpoint Chanislawski! It's been almost two years, but we're finally paddling out for yet another adventure. The original plan was to explore Europe for 100 days, come back to L.A. and work enough to rebuild our travel fund and head out for 100 days in Southeast Asia in early 2016. The Chanislawskis are happy to report that the latter part of that prediction remains 100% factually accurate! However, and this brings me to our 'secondly,' while in Paris in 2014, we received word that our European excursion was to be cut short due to work-related reasons. Instead of coming back stateside in June of that year, we had to come back over a month earlier. That, in turn, made us decide between continuing the trip as we had been (at least a week in each city) and only see another country or two, or moving through Europe at breakneck speed, catching six more countries, but only spending a few days in each place.
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Considering that we do not wake up each morn on luxurious bedding made of the monies of our enemies, we were unsure as to when we'd be able to see Europe again. Thus, we chose the sprinting option of taking in each place for mere days at a time in order to make footprints in as many locales as possible. In turn, we had less downtime to dedicate to things like updating the blog (or recovering from pains, sickness, exhaustion, whatever). So, as much as we're sure you've all been salivating these past two years to know how the rest of Europe was (post-Netherlands), you'll have to be satisfied with the same thing I've been telling myself everyday, 'I'll try to get to those blog entries on the cities we missed when my memory is not only pictures.'
...I'm sorry, but it was fantastic and want to do it justice.
In any case, we're here to announce our travels to Southeast Asia! In exactly one week, we'll be getting on a plane across the Pacific, stopping over in Japan for a minute, then landing in Bangkok, Thailand for the first leg of our journey.
After returning from Europe, we spent about a year saving enough money for this trip and bought our tickets to Thailand in November, thus cementing this endeavor in reality. A post soon will itemize as much as possible to help any of you wondering how this trip can be a reality for anyone. For now, this is just our announcement, slipped into the ether, that we are heading out! Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, and Japan here we come...
