Way back in 2015, I wrote about this world-traveling family’s 20 Most Memorable Moments of 2014. But our journey had only just started — we continued hopping across the globe for a good portion of 2015. Here are the 35 things we experienced in 2015 that we regularly talk about.
› This summer we're packing up and hitting the road to experience that great tradition—the Epic American Road Trip. We'll be traveling the highways and byways of the United States, journeying through 17 states in three weeks. Join us, won't you?
After leaving England, we had a three-day layover in Iceland, a small island country the locals call a land of ice and fire. On our first day, we got the lay of the land in Reykjavik, along with a history lesson or two, and some delicious hot dogs.
Way back around the year 120, Roman Emperor Hadrian built a giant wall too keep the wildmen out of the northern border of the Roman Empire. Parts of that wall still stand today.
During our 333-day trip around the world, I filmed one second of video for each day we were traveling. Well, kind of. When it was all over, all that footage was turned into a six-minute video that nicely chronicles our journey. And you can see that video right here.
Our travels took us to Kingdom of Thailand, where we stayed for a month in Bangkok and Chiang Mai. We saw a lot of cool things during our stay—here are are few of them.
We had nine more days in Thailand (three in Chiang Mai and five in Bangkok) before we moved on to India. On none of these days did we do anything that warrants a stand-alone post, so we're just putting them all right here. (And if you're thinking that's a totally obvious way to catch up on these entries, you'd be spot on.)
The girls were interested in hanging out with some elephants while we were in Thailand, so we hooked up with Ran-Tong Elephant Centre, which is saves and rescues elephants, giving them a better life and future.
We realized that after our amazing Hanoi food tour, any other tour would be chopped beef to Hanoi’s filet mignon. But, knowing the vibrant food scene in Bangkok, we felt a food tour would be in order.
A week prior, we took in the Sunday walking market and enjoyed it so much, we decided to visit both the Saturday and Sunday walking markets this week.
In which we walk up to Art in Paradise to see the large, interactive illusion art murals and then take in the Chiang Mai Night Market.
We take a day trip by van to Chiang Rai in northern Thailand. We can't say it was the best tour, but we did get to see everything we wanted to ... and more.
Chiang Mai is a very festive town, and during the next two days we took in some of those festivities. First, we walked up to see the Chiang Mai Flower Festival, then the next day we strolled around the Sunday Walking Market, which takes place every week at Tha Phae Gate.
We knock around Bangkok for a few days before heading up to Chiang Mai. Somewhere in this period of time, three of us get sick and we really appreciated Thailand's liberal prescription drug policy.
We'd sort of been a little sedentary in Bangkok, so it was time to check out Ayutthaya, one of the old capitals of the Thailand, home to numerous temples, and a UNESCO World Heritage site.
