Today we celebrate our 6 month anniversary on the road! I'm currently typing away at our Airbnb in Bangkok. We will board an overnight train to our next Thailand destination this evening. The hopes for our last day in this city are these; laundry, post office run, go see an enormous Buddha, shower off the sweat we've accumulated, school time, rest and finally get to the train station.

We've begun to view our adventure into thirds. The first third was EUROPE, the second EGPYT & INDIA, and the last third is SE ASIA. I'm cheating a little here, because, no, we did not stay a full 3 months in Egypt and India....but sometimes it felt like we did. So we'll round up!

Looking back at EUROPE, we saw a crazy ton amount of museums. And because I track everything...here are some! EPIC Immigration, Titanic, British, Vasa, DDR, Checkpoint Charlie, Deuseches, Falcor (Neverending Story), Illusion, Broken Relationships, and Topkapi Palace. All museums, many interesting. Some duds, we're looking at you Falcor! Some almost too overwhelming to really take in, see British Museum. The point is, we saw a great many of them. I can see why a good curator is so very important in making a quality museum. I still do like a good museum, but, I think we have seen enough. On our final day in Mumbai, we decided to beat the heat and humidity and pay $20 to enter the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya Museum (an amazing name). We found ourselves wandering aimlessly around the beautiful, multi-leveled building looking at artifacts and punching in numbers on our audioguides in hopes of learning some fun facts while continuing to melt into puddles, as there was no A/C to be found. It wasn't very fun. Sadly, I don't really remember much of what was in there aside from the natural history part with all the stuffed animals staring at us.

Thus we entered the age of awakening. We needed to do less passively looking, and more actively DOING! I'd signed us up for a city walking tour in Jodhpur after many, many people insisted we were staying too long in the blue city, and what would we do with all that time!? I found the walking tour through Airbnb and booked it. We spent several hours wandering the maze-like blue streets and chatting with several other travelers and our youthful guide.

We ended up watching a pretty lovely sunset from a vantage point we'd never have found on our own. That solidified it for us, we needed to book experiences just as much as we needed train and plane tickets.

After that, we've full-on embraced the search for experiences. So far they include a camel trek through the NW Indian desert, a painstakingly detailed miniature art class in Udaipur, an intense hour-long Thai massage in Chiang Mai, interacting and getting right up close to some majestic ellies at Elephant Nature Park, a delicious cooking class which had me bringing home bags of leftover Pad See Eew, and the coup de grace, a sweaty 5-hour bike ride through the skinny streets of old Bangkok.

Of course, we are still peppering in some fantastic sightseeing! You can't help but do so while simply walking around or zipping up the river in a hop on hop off boat.

With this newfound learning, we enter the last third of our adventure around the world.