Amanda Kingsmith

yoga teacher. world traveler. writer. podcast host.

travel update

Day 2: Tales of Taiwan

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When I left for Asia a little over a year ago, I set a goal to blog once a month, providing a travel update about life as a “digital nomad”. I was successful for 7/8 months. So, before I jump into other life musings, I feel it’s my duty to share about my time in Taiwan way back in May of this year.

Ryan and I flew to Taipei, Taiwan from Tokyo, Japan. We left Japan on a complete and total high. I had expected to like Japan, but not to fall so completely in love with it. Do you know that feeling when you arrive in a new city or country and you feel totally at home right away? That’s how I felt in Japan. It just felt right being there. There are few places in the world that have given me that feeling, so 3 weeks certainly didn’t feel like long enough to spend there.

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Month 3 Travel Update: Chiang Mai

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This month was spent entirely in Thailand, and it was perhaps our best month on the road yet. After 2 months of slow, albeit continuous, travel, we were ready to settle down.

After we spent 144 hours in Shanghai, we flew to Bangkok where we spent 2 days, most of which was spent sleeping in and lounging around as we fought off the colds we caught in China, before flying north to Chiang Mai. We had heard amazing things about Chiang Mai, and we were ready to settle in for a month of work and restoration. I know, those 2 words don’t usually go hand in hand, but if I’ve learned anything over these 3 months it’s that working + traveling is much harder than it sounds. It’s this constant pull between feeling like you should be working and wanting to explore, and while trying to balance both, all forms of relaxation go out the window.

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Month 1 Travel Update: Singapore, Philippines + Malaysia

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Over the last year I have spent a lot more time writing for The World Wanderers and M.B.Om than have for my personal site. And I have decided to turn this website into more than just a travel blog, it is my personal website – a space for not only my passion for travel, but also my passion for yoga, and life in general.

As Ryan and I travel through Asia, I have decided to write monthly updates on where we have been, what we are up to, and how things are going. Of course, for more detailed accounts of what we’ve been doing, you can follow along with our travel podcast, The World Wanderers or on social media.

Ryan and I flew from Penticton on Monday, October 3rd. After nearly 24 hours of travel with a long haul flight over night from San Francisco, we made it to Singapore. Our original plan was to spend the entire month of October in the Philippines because we had booked a conference in Manila for mid-October. Before booking flights we did some research, only to find out that the Internet is ridiculously slow in the Philippines. On any other trip, this would not have been an issue for us, but this trip is different. We are not simply traveling. We are working + traveling. Beginning a life as digital nomads. So, we did some research on other places in Asia that we could visit for our first week before the conference, and settled on Singapore.

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