By Chris
October 12, 2019 • 1 min read
Sept 28 - Oct 4, 2019
On September 28 we finished our packing for our “Round the world” aka RTW trip, and left to visit family and friends in Seattle. Here’s what my bag looked like (Brandon’s was not available for photography due to sleepless night packing).
We each packed a carry on suitcase and a backpack. I included an empty purse so I could avoid looking like a tourist ALL the time. We also included a dryer line, laundry sheets of detergent, 12 months of birth control (super annoying to obtain in the US), My jewelry roll up case, makeup, toiletries, watercolors, sketchbook, laptop, kindle, meds (ie malarone, antibiotics), our Oculus Quest (virtual reality) system, the three ”chavos” Linus Raul (penguin), Huey (short penguin with bear hat), and Pabu (racoon).
Regarding clothes, I packed:
My bags are rather full...
Our airbnb was beautiful in Seattle, with a view overlooking the water and Pike place market.
Seeing family and friends was nice but as always, doesn’t seem long enough. We’ll miss everyone :)
We did our usual pike place circuit of Beecher’s mac and cheese, Ellenos yogurt, Piroshky Piroshky, and that Mee Sum pastry for humbow.
January 25th to February 20th After our brief stay in Singapore, we more or less spent the next month (from January 25th to February 20th) on various Thai islands. It was a blast and a really unique experience. Looking back on it I'm probably struck the most by how different the experience was on each of the islands. We also had some interesting experiences getting to and from the different…