Moving from the first leg of the Race into the second, Luke and I decided to compile a list of all of the things that Asia gave to us in the short five months span that we called it home:
Caught in traffic from an ocean of goats (Both)
Milky Way nights (Both)
Monkey encounters (Both)
Overcrowded tuk-tuk rides (Both)
Hindu-to-Christian Conversion (Both)
Facial hair (Both)
Ate water buffalo bladder (Both)
Rice bowl ride (Both)
Scaling ancient Indian ruins (Both)
Doing it while barefoot (Luke)
Fighting renegade chickens (Luke)
Mourned loss of baby chick turned crow lunch (Both)
Freshly squeezed water buffalo milk (Both)
Thumbs Up (Both)
Fell in love with Indian curry (Both)
Located Indian curry in every other Asian country (Both)
First squatty potty (Both)
Learned how to hand wash clothes (Both)
Lived with Indian orphans (Both)
Became professional jaywalkers (Both)
Lived with Indian orphans (Both)
Caught in traffic from an ocean of goats (Both)
First tattoo (Kyle)
Second tattoo (Both)
Himalayan sunrise (Both)
Leech infestations (Kyle)
Paragliding over Himalayas (Both)
Fungus kisses (Both)
Sunrise over Buddhist temple (Kyle)
Breakfast with Nepali street kids (Luke)
Cinnamon roll pancakes (Both)
Weight loss (Both)
Weight gain (Both)
Loss again (Both)
Slum ministry (Both)
Airport sleepovers (Both)
Got first parasite (Both)
Discovered first parasite 3 months later (Both)
Elephant bath (Both)
Sleeping on bamboo floors (Both)
Fighting killer gecko-dogs (Both)
Swimming beneath waterfalls (Both)
Sawing firewood with Burmese refugees (Both)
Illegal border crossings (Both)
Befriending Burmese border control (Both)
Teaching college level chemistry in English to non-english speaking 14-year-olds (Both)
Body surfed down Thai mountain (Both)
Living as a tourist attraction in a Long Neck village (Both)
Shaved and regrew facial hair (Luke)
Lived with Burmese orphans (Both)
Learned what an Enneagram is (Both)
Owned the streets of Siem Reap (Both)
Iridocyclitis (Both)
Bowel movement on one of Seven Wonders of the World (Kyle)
Drinking coffee in a Biology Lab (Both)
Dance party at Cambodian church service (Both)
Tamed giant snail (Luke)
Went to Cambodian medical clinic (Luke)
Christmas in Cambodia (Both)
Christmas in Vietnam (Both)
*update: Christmas again in Ethiopia (Both)
Learned how to do a headstand (Luke)
Helped stage “Christmas in Da Nang” (Both)
Saw Star Wars in Asian movie theater (Both)
Choked down Vietnamese coffee (Both)
Found best cheeseburger in Asia (Both)
Got molested by escalator (Luke)
Took Christmas to Vietnamese elderly/disabled home (Both)
Rode overnight train across Vietnamese countryside (Both)
Squirt gun wipeage (Both)
Coke in every country (Both)
Self discovery (Both)
Christmas in Cambodia (Both)
Christmas in Vietnam (Both)
Learned how to do a headstand (Luke)
Helped stage “Merry Christmas Da Nang” (Both)
Saw Star Wars in Asian movie theater (Both)
Choked down Vietnamese coffee (Both)
Found best cheeseburger in Asia (Both)
Got molested by escalator (Luke)
Took Christmas to Vietnamese elderly/disabled home (Both)
Rode overnight train across Vietnamese countryside (Both)
Karaoke with Vietnamese friends (Both)
First time driving a moped (Kyle)
7 new languages (Both)
