This was our last week of 4 weeks spent in Chiang Mai and it was so sad to say goodbye. If I am going to be completely honest, I didn’t totally love Chiang Mai when we first arrived. I wondered why so many people raved about the city including Zach who visited during business school. To me, the city felt overly crowded, traffic was chaotic and I was in constant fear of being hit by a motorbike and to top it all off our Airbnb had a funny smell to it. Eventually, I found my groove and the city started to feel like home. We ended up meeting amazing people (locals and tourists), had fun adventures, worked out an exercise routine (I took group fitness classes in Thai!) and got to taste delicious food and coffee. We wanted to share the top highlights (in no particular order) so that maybe a few of you will come with us on our next trip ?.

Read more

Zach and I had an incredible experience at the Elephant Nature Park (ENP) in Northern Thailand. We spent the day watching and interacting with elephants, chilling in a cat kingdom and the added bonus was that we made new (people) friends! Our trip to the ENP was one of our most memorable adventures and we are excited to share it with you!

Read more

Most of you who know me know that I love coffee. My coffee addiction developed out of necessity while I was a PhD student. Like many overworked and underpaid grad students, I drank coffee to study for exams and to help me get through long hours in the lab. I never really had the time to appreciate or money to afford good quality coffee. When I moved out to the West Coast and started earning a living wage I was exposed to a whole new world of coffee. I became curious about what goes into making a great cup of coffee and I love exploring new coffee shops while I travel. Zach previously was not a big coffee drinker but during the pandemic, I started brewing coffee at home and quickly passed on my coffee obsession. Chiang Mai has been a dream for exploring our coffee curiosity and we are excited to share a few of our coffee adventures with you.

Read more

Zach and I hope you all had wonderful New Year’s celebrations with family and friends ?. We are all settled into our new home away from home in Chiang Mai and wanted to share how we spent the last few days of 2022 and how we rang in 2023.

Read more

Zach and I hope you and your family are having a wonderful holiday season. Although we are not able to celebrate with most of you this year we wanted to stay connected by sharing an update on the highlights of our trip so far.

Read more

Zach and I loved that we had a chance to see so many friends at our going away (for now) drinks, dinner and brunch celebrations in Seattle before hitting the road. We are happy to share that after a 1400 mile road trip down to AZ and 20+ hours of flying, we successfully made it to Thailand! Here are some of the highlights of our journey so far ?

Read more

There are a lot of logistical items to take care of when planning to leave the country for months at a time.  We have had many questions from friends and family about what we are doing with house, car, mail in Seattle while we are away so we wanted to share for those of you who are interested.

Read more