Two people traveling across ten countries over the course of ten months to get to Tokyo.
After a short but turbulent morning flight from Amsterdam Schiphol (as in getting jostled around in a metal tube of panicking people turbulent), we landed at Stockholm Arlanda. We spent the next hour-and-a-half staring at a merry-go-round of other people’s luggage before realizing ours was on the wrong carousel. (Shout out to Scandinavian Airlines for
When we first started planning our journey around the world last December, the big question was: “Where should we start?” The answer was unanimous: Amsterdam. We’d both been to this bustling-but-quaint city before and it seemed like the perfect place to dip into our new lives on the road. Whether it’s the friendly people, leaning
Between the lines of one of the world’s most touristed cities, a lazy summer hum pulses through the streets as the sun lingers in the sky past 10:00 PM.
In June 2018, Matt and I stuffed what we could into a 5 x 10 storage unit, sold the rest, and left our hometown to travel around the world for a year.