The map

one slow easterly drift · overland where we can · by air only when we must
N S W E started in London South China Sea Andaman Sea here be water buffalo → Bangkok APR '25 · 28 days Chiang Mai JUN '25 · 92 days Đà Nẵng OCT '25 · 14 days Hội An NOW · 215 days Hà Nội NEXT? Penang '24 · 30 days
A loose, imprecise map — for proper coordinates please use a proper atlas ✻
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Hội An, Việt Nam

15.88°N · 108.34°E · 215 days here so far
March 2025

London → Bangkok

28 days

Heathrow Terminal 5. One-way tickets. Four backpacks and a slightly nauseous family. The proper beginning.

June 2025

Chiang Mai, Thailand

92 days

Three months in the northern hills. The slow start to slow travel. The boys' first proper friends abroad.

October 2025

Đà Nẵng, Vietnam

14 days

Two weeks of bureaucracy, flooding and overpriced taxis before the country properly let us in. We deserved it.

Nov 2025 → now

Hội An, Việt Nam

215 days · still here

A yellow town between rice paddies and the sea. The longest we've been anywhere. The boys have a school of sorts. We have a fruit man.

The road, by the numbers

11Countries
14Months out
1,247kmTravelled overland
27Dispatches filed

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