We could be totally wrong, but there’s a good chance that we won’t have much internet time over the next 4 weeks (Jan 14 – Feb 14). We’ll be traveling through New Zealand, where we’re planning on camping as much as possible and don’t expect many wireless campsites. From there we’ll be heading to Tasmania to trek for 1 to 2 weeks, and also don’t expect much internet.
There are other parts of the trip that we though we’d be out of contact and it turned out that we had internet access almost every night – but if that’s not the case (which we don’t think it will be), we wanted to give a heads up ahead of time.
If you send us an email and we don’t get back to you for a week or two, that’s probably why.
Thanks!
Connal + Anjel
Today, as we fly from South Korea to New Zealand, we pass our 20,000th mile.
Back on October 11 we passed 10,000 miles and estimated that we would pass 20,000 “somewhere around Japan in January” – which is exactly where we are (at the time we thought we’d be visiting Japan – unfortunately we had to give it a pass on this trip).
The breakdown is as follows:
6794 miles by Plane
6311 miles by Train
2951 miles by Car
2065 miles by Motorcycle
962 miles by Boat
693 miles by Bus
218 miles on Foot
5 miles by Horse
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We weren’t in Seoul for long before Anjel’s family started teaching us how to play the traditional Korean card game of Min Hwa-Tu.
I’d seen the deck of small cards before, Anjel and I even had one around the house, but we had never played – until now. I am hooked on it and Anjel’s Aunt (or “Emo”) has done a great job of slowly ratcheting up the difficulty of the game as we start to understand more and more. The biggest hurdle is just learning to keep all the sets straight… but I’m getting ahead of myself.
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This has nothing to do with travel, and we’re not in China, so I can’t pretend it was inspired by that. It was something that I was reminded of this evening, and it’s a meme that I try to pass along whenever I can. So I’m going to take this opportunity to do so.
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Anyone have any friends or family in Melbourne, Australia?
We will arrive in Melbourne from New Zealand around 8 in the morning on Wednesday, January 27th. We leave the next morning on a ferry for Tasmania around 9 am.
We’re (probably) capable of getting ourselves to and from whatever lodgings there might be, and we can certainly amuse ourselves until it’s a more reasonable hour on the morning that we arrive. What we’re really looking for is a place to stay for the evening of the 27th.
Be it ever so humble… a spare room, couch or floor would suffice! 
If you have any suggestions send us an email or have your friend/family member contact us directly!
Thanks,
Connal + Anjel
The Mongolian currency is the Togrog. The exchange rate is roughly 1470 Togrog to 1 US Dollar.
Throughout most of Europe, thanks to the prevalence of €2 coins, it’s pretty easy to have a pocket full of change that adds up to more than $30. As an American, where a pocket full of change is rarely more than $2, it was always surprising to count up “loose change” and find enough for dinner.
On the other hand Mongolia doesn’t use any coins at all. Even the smallest denomination (₮1) is still a bill. Consequently it was common to have a wallet stuffed with 30 or 40 bills that didn’t add up to more than $10.
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