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#3 INCOMPLETE – Dive With Sharks ~ Hawaii

January 4, 2013 was supposed to be the day we completed the 3rd item on our While We’re Alive list.  Unfortunately, the week we just spent on Oahu consisted of rain, high wind warnings, rain, rough seas, rain, and ultimately the cancelation of our cage dive with North Shore Shark Adventures. After receiving the terrible news, […]

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Shwedagon Pagoda…Worth Every US Dollar! ~ Myanmar

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, […]

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Where Will You Be For New Year’s Eve 2013??

One of the items on our list of things we must do While We’re Alive, is going to take us 10 years to complete!!  That’s because #24 is: Celebrate New Year’s Eve in 10 Different Cities!! For 2012, we rang in the New Year with thousands of Thais in Pattaya, Thailand.  A week long concert, paper […]

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We’ve Literally Seen The World’s End! ~ Sri Lanka

Today the world was supposed to end, and here we are now surfing the web, writing blog posts, and finishing up our last little bit of online Christmas shopping.  Well, life on Earth has carried on, and we’re here to tell you that we’ve actually been to the end of the world.  We’ve seen it […]

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What The Heck Is Phuang Malai?? ~ Thailand

If you’ve been to Thailand before, you know what Phuang Malai is.  You may have never known what to call it other than, “those pretty flower arrangements that are practically everywhere”, but we can guarantee that unless you’re legally blind, you know Phuang Malai. Hand made and purchased for good luck, offerings, and a multitude […]

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