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[10 Aug 2009 | Comments | 742 views]
the Goodfishies guide to packing, leaving & relocating across the world

We fish have traveled a fair bit since the first day we teamed-up a few years ago. We won’t call ourselves travel professionals quite yet, but we are getting really good at packing (and re-packing) our entire existance into backpacks, suitcases, duffel-bags & boxes and moving to a new place. It’s not easy, but it’s worth it. Trust us!

Anyway, here’s a how-to on dropping new roots…

East Asia, Video »

[9 Aug 2009 | Comments | 1,461 views]
The Great Wall of China - Simatai

If you are heading to China, you HAVE TO see the Great Wall of China! We hiked the Great Wall on our recent trip to China and it was easily the highlight of our entire trip.
The Great Wall is very long; however, the most popular section of the Great Wall is near Beijing. The most well-known section is called “Ba Da Ling” (八達嶺). It is the closest section to the city and it’s always packed with tourists. The Badaling section has been completely renovated and rebuilt. Apparently most of …

General, Hong Kong »

[1 Mar 2009 | Comments | 3,284 views]
the Hong Kong Survival Guide!

Hey everyone! We spent 6 days in Hong Kong taking pictures, eating foreign food and getting elbowed in the face. Hong Kong is an amazing, international, beautiful city - We had a fantastic time, but realized after even a few days of arriving that keeping your sanity in Hong Kong demanded a certain zen-like mind control.
Not to worry! We at goodfishies.com have compiled a simple 3 step program to safely get you through your trip to Hong Kong called the Goodfishies.com Hong Kong Survival Guide.
STEP 1: push.
STEP 2: …

Korea »

[19 Sep 2008 | Comments | 678 views]
Korea

We spent 10 days in South Korea visiting with our good friends Song & Joe, from Vancouver. It was a short 3-hour flight from Chitose airport to Incheon, in Seoul. We met happily in the airport, and spent our first night together in Seoul. We hopped a taxi from the airport to the love-hotel district in Seoul and dragged our luggage around in the pouring rain trying to find a love-hotel that wasn’t booked on a Friday night (not easy!). Our first night in Seoul was …