Hello! Kumusta ka! Sawatdee Klap! Konichiwa! Ni hao! Annyong!

Hello and welcome to Darin and Anthony's travel blog. This blog will chronicle our 3+ month trip through Asia. "Did you say 3+ month trip..?," I hear you saying. Yes, 3+ month trip. Darin was in between schooling and Anthony decided to leave his company after 11 years, so what else is there to do but travel through Asia. Isn't that what any sane person would do? In the next three months, we'll share our laughs, our tears, and our insanity from the constant travelling. Below are some of the common questions we've gotten. So now you can stop asking us. Just kidding. Continue to ask the same questions as everyone else.

Q: "Where are you guys going?"

A: Tough to answer this since we haven't planned it all the way through so it's changed and can continue to change as we go along. But we've always had the following countries in mind: Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, China (Beijing in particular), and Japan. We've also talked about possibly going to Laos, Singapore, Indonesia, Bhutan, and Burma. If we have the time and money, we'll add them as well. And the newest addition as of this morning is Seoul, Korea (which replaces Hong Kong).

Q: "Do you have a return date?"

A: That's the beauty of being unemployed, there is nothing to come back to (except you, of course). So we've bought one-way tickets to Manila and we'll work our way through Asia. When we run out, we'll come back. Or when we're absolutely tired of travelling and need the comforts of home.

Q: "Are you going to India?"

A: I don't know why we've gotten this question a lot, but we have. Sadly, we were both just thinking of travelling through Eastern Asia and we would prefer to save India another time when we can focus our whole trip to India.

Q: "How are you able to travel for 3 months?"

A: Well, we're both unemployed at the moment so we both have the time to do it. And the root of the question really is, how we can afford to do such a thing. I think the term is, "saving". We've been saving for this trip since last July.

Q: "Do you still have family in Asia that you'll visit?"

A: This is more directed towards Anthony, since he's the Asian one. But yes, he does, and we are planning on visiting them in the Philippines. And also family in Bangkok, but he's not Thai. He just has a cousin in Thailand.

Q: "Are you guys going to post pictures on Facebook?" "Are you guys going to write a blog about it?"

A: Well what do you think?

Q: "What are you going to do when you get back?"

A: Get a job. Since Anthony left work to go on this trip, he'll have to start looking for something when he gets back. Darin will be using this time during Asia to figure out what he'll be doing.