There are a little over 200 hours between us and the leap into the great unknown that is mostly-unplanned international travel. One day you're working 9 to 5, the next your only job is figuring out how to order your dinner or find your hostel with a vocabulary of 4 words. And then there are the hectic last few days here, packing and finishing up projects and dozens of to-do lists... at this point we'll be happy if we manage to pack enough underwear and show up to the airport on time.

To recap our travel plans: we'll be flying into Hong Kong next Saturday, and from there we'll be going through the southernmost part of China, into Vietnam, possibly stopping in Cambodia, and continuing through Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia. From there we'll fly north to Korea in early March. Then we'll have a few weeks each in Japan and China, and the return flight from Hong Kong at the end of April. Three months of hostels, trains and buses, sightseeing from dawn to dusk, and gobs of glorious street food!

I'll be describing our adventures, culinary and otherwise, here as often as I can. If you have any travel tips, recommended restaurants, dishes, or sights, or if you are going to be in the area and want to hang out, let me know!