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, […]

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 […]

There were rumours swirling around for years about the impending closure of the Suan Lum Night Bazaar in Bangkok, but we refused to believe them.  After all, it was our evening sanctuary.  A place where we could walk to in just 5 minutes from our hotel, at any hour in the night, to satisfy our […]

A lot of people cringe at the thought of traveling for 20+ hours to get somewhere.  We embrace it with open arms, and love the traveling almost as much as the destinations themselves!  Free movies, mediocre food, awkward sleeping positions, hours to kill in transit…it’s all part of the fun!  And, with so much time to […]

A massive plug of magma rock in the middle of Sri Lanka, we’ve been itching to get to the top of it ever since watching the boys on Departures climb the thing a couple years back.  Enter – #68 on our bucket list: Dodge The Hornets While Climbing Sigiriya Rock! It wasn’t the fact that […]