Nobody said that completing our list of While We’re Alive experiences was going to be easy, and #9-Ballooning Over Bagan in Myanmar is proving to be one of those wallet draining experiences that will make completing it that much sweeter. Our first attempt really wasn’t a failure, but still an attempt nonetheless.  On our first […]

This past weekend we were at Seattle’s Central Library attending National Geographic’s Mastering Travel Photography seminar.  After 6 hours of listening to two of Nat Geo’s best travel photographers (Ralph Lee Hopkins and Bob Krist), we came back with a wealth of information.  Here’s a list of the top 5 things we learned or confirmed […]

Myanmar recently released their tourism statistics for 2012 (Read CNNTravel), and with the lifting of sanctions and steps taken toward forming a democracy, the country has begun to see a surge in tourism with over 1 million visitors this past year.  Compared to Thailand’s 22 million visitors in the same year, 1 million people flocking […]

Before arriving in Myanmar, we knew that one of the must see sites was going to be the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon.  We had heard that it was such a special and sacred place for buddhists in Myanmar, to miss it would be an atrocity. The foreigner tax to get in wasn’t bad at all, […]

We have a million sunset photos and they’re all kind of starting to look the same.  We just can’t help ourselves.  Everything is just so gosh darn beautiful when the sun is going down.  :) To some, a sunset may just be a sunset.  But to us, no two sunsets are ever the same, and […]