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Favourite Wild Animals

  • manta rays
  • elk
  • sharks
  • monitor lizards
  • tarantula
  • dolphins
  • sea turtles
  • monkeys
  • camels
  • black bear

Sea turtle- Maldives

 

Best Markets

  • Chatuchak Market, Bangkok- Thailand
  • Friday Night Market, Phuket- Thailand
  • Hoi An Night Market- Vietnam
  • Ben Thanh Market, Ho Chi Minh City- Vietnam
  • Chiang Mai Tai Pae Gate Market- Thailand

Chatuchak Market- Bangkok, Thailand


New Flavours of Ice Cream

  • cherry blossom
  • soy
  • chestnut
  • lavender
  • green tea
  • gold leaf
  • matcha
  • passionfruit
  • corn

Gold leaf ice cream- Kanazawa, Japan

Places We Noticed Lots of Garbage and Plastic

  • Bangkok, Thailand
  • Madaba, Jordan
  • Chiang Mai, Thailand
  •  Phuket, Thailand
  • Male, Maldives
  • Malaysia...everywhere by Kuala Lumpu
  • Siem Reap, Cambodia
  • Thoddoo, Maldives


Plastic that washes up on the shore on Thoddoo- Maldives


Wettest Days

  • Kawhia Barn, New Zealand
  • Drive through Iowa on our way home- USA
  • Flagstaff, Utah- USA
Keeping dry playing darts in the barn- New Zealand



Coldest Days

  • Yellowstone overnight, Wyoming- USA
  • Edith Cavell Hike, Jasper Alberta- Canada
  • Yoho National Park, British Columbia- Canada
Unimpressed with the dampness and the cold- Jasper National Park, Canada


Most Humid/Hottest Days

  • Bangkok- Thailand
  • Kuala Lumpur- Malaysia
  • Singapore
  • Maldives
Ice cream and air-conditioning stop in Bangkok- Thailand


Most Air Pollution

  • Bangkok, Thailand
  • Chiang Mai, Thailand
  • Osaka, Japan

Oppressive heat and air pollution- Bangkok, Thailand



Craziest Drivers

  • Thailand
  • Vietnam
  • Cambodia

Anything goes!

Friendliest Countries

  • Jordan
  • Hawaii
  • Malaysia
  • Thailand
  • New Zealand
  • Maldives

Parker made friends all over Jordan

Windiest Day

  • Arches National Park
  • Petra, Jordan
  • Akaroa, New Zealand


Protecting themselves from the whipping sand



Craziest Roads

  • Malaysia- Mount Brinchang
  • Hawaii- Miliolii Road
  • Japan- mountain roads
  • New Zealand- Summit Road Akaroa
  • Jordan- highways throughout

Climbing up Mount Brinchang- Malaysia

Most expensive gas

  • Hawaii
  • Jordan

Day-tripping in Hawaii


Least expensive gas

  • USA


Road-tripping through the USA

Best Beaches

  • Maldives
  • Hawaii
  • New Zealand
  • Thailand

Thoddoo, Maldives



Best shorelines

  • New Zealand
  • Canada
  • Hawaii

Abel Tasman Beach- New Zealand


Bites

  • 2 fish
  • 2 lizards
  • 1 bee
  • sea lice
  • mosquitoes

Hungry snapper- New Zealand

Car Trouble

  • 2 flat tires on the trailer- Canada and USA
  • 1 flat tire- Malaysia
  • 1 towed car- Malaysia

Day 1- Orillia, Canada


Things we lost

  • goggles- Mike jumped into the ocean (Hawaii)
  • goggles- Cheryl dropped them while running (Hawaii)
  • a pair of socks- lost somewhere in Japan or Australia
  • water ball- left it by the pool in Phuket (Thailand)
  • baseball hat- left at a campground (USA)
  • water bottle- left in airport hotel (Japan)
  • swim shirt- Nathan drowned it in the Dead Sea trying to see how deep he could push it before it wouldn't float back up
  • 2 cards from a deck of cards (Thailand)

The last time we saw the goggles- Hawaii



Things that broke

  • Mike's running shoes, sandals and replacement sandals...tough on footwear?!
  • water bottle
  • Water camera
Searching the markets trying to find shoes and sandals big enough for Mike

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