I set out on a journey across Southeast Asia on the very same day that a new virus was reported in China. This is a timeline of how the virus affected and eventually ended my travels.
Are you curious what traveling though Southeast Asia is like with the fear of Coronavirus spreading like wildfire? Are you wondering if it is even safe to proceed with your travel plans? This has been my experience with the situation in the region at the moment.
New decades mean new adventures! Here's an update on where I am headed in the coming months.
I had relatively few expectations flying into Oman. Usually I do some research into a new country first, and I had bought the Oman cultural guide book, but knowing that we were going to be at a Westernized resort for the majority of the time turned me into a lazy researcher, instead relying on the few bits of information we had gleaned from our friends. The rest I could figure out once we arrived. Fletch and I were flying to Oman to help out our friends Stefan and Tanja with their busy season at the dive resort where they were currently
July 4 rolled around and Fletch had the brilliant idea to make sweet treats for everyone called firecrackers. So we spent a day gathering supplies, soaked some strawberries in a bowl of vodka, then dipped them in marshmallow cream and blue sprinkles. Red, white, and blue, get it? The blue sprinkles were supposed to be pop rocks, to create the popping sensation like a firecracker, but pop rocks were nowhere to be found. The treats were a hit regardless. We also attempted to inject some tangerines and watermelons with vodka, mostly because once we found the injector, it was too