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Heading Home! 🌎➡️🏡

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  Heading Home!  🌎➡️🏡 Hi and welcome to the…FINAL…BLOG…POST! We are in our last hotel room in Delhi, India flying back to the United States tomorrow, and the giddy-excitement is pulsing through us. We are so ready - it is TIME! But it also feels impossible to process all that we have experienced in the last 16 months… and impossible to predict how we will feel and be going back to our home culture, community, and societal norms. Nevertheless, we are excited to pack up our bags just ONE more time and see what stepping back onto our home turf will feels like!     Let’s rewind a bit to our time in India. All I can say to describe this place is WOW. Like WOW there are a lot of people, smells, sounds, and incredible, ancient culture here! Upon flying into Dehli, we took a taxi north to Rishikesh which sits at the base of the Himalayas. What was meant to be around 5 hours took closer to 8 after spending an hour in a gas line and sitting in unbelievable traffic at a 4 way...

Thai Style

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  Thai Style Hi everybody!!! Welcome to today’s post about everything THAILAND! We spent 2 weeks between Bangkok, the countryside, and the beach in this beautiful country and barely scratched the surface.  Let’s dive in! The people: The most welcoming, sweetest humans! They just wanted to share their culture, language, food with us everywhere we went! Everyone was so genuine and lovely.  The food: I mean, COME ON… Thai food. Wow. Just so good. Lots of pad thai, tom yum soups, curries, and mango sticky rice! And of course millions of coconuts everywhere you look - and specifically THAI coconuts…they actually taste like Thai food hahah.   The weather: HOT and HUMID! Rained some days we were there, but mostly was sunny and hot. The places: We stayed for about 5-6 days in the countryside in a homestay/Airbnb where siblings of the same family all lived in the same neighborhood. They cooked for us for every meal, drove us around to see nearby places, took us on cultural ex...