Happy Holidays Live Q&A | From Thiland

Happy Holidays Live Q&A | From Thiland

We are live Merry Christmas Merry Christmas and happy holidays how is everyone doing wow it’s been a while since we’ve been on here and you’ve been asking for us to go live as well yeah we had to figure out how to get this done because here in Thailand it’s not that

Simple obviously because of the the time difference and you know Internet situation and everything else you know we had to make sure we were kind of up to par before we decided that we wanted to do this but uh we’ve got it all figured out and arena is up bright and

Early because technically at this time it’s 900 a.m. here in Thailand she would be sleeping at least for another hour or two um so we had to make sure that this happens so she had to get up early today um so in this video we are just kind of

Shooting the breeze doing live uh q&as catching up yes catching up because it is it has been a while I think the last time we went live we were in Shang Rock or shangai yeah and that was a long time ago and I think we were just going live

In the streets I had my phone and we were just kind of going around we were in a a food market I think yeah one of the uh the Street Markets but uh yes how’s everyone doing um let’s start this off I guess uh whoever is joining us now

If you could leave a comment let us know where you’re from and again happy holidays to everyone It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year as they say um and let us know what are you celebrating yes yes um so um here in in Thailand um a lot of

The malls and different places they you know they have Christmas trees and it’s all decked out but we were just talking about this before we went live um they really don’t celebrate Christmas that way but again the retail stores and certain stores they do sell you know Christmas stuff the massage poers all

The all the ladies are all dressed up in red and you know the bar girls they’re all in red also so they they get festive they like the dressing a part of it and of course they do know that there are westerners here who celebrate Christmas

So you know they just kind of go along with the uh with the theme Linda is here from Lind Arizona welcome Deborah happy holidays good to to be live with you here yes yes um so yeah a lot of us a lot of you guys were reaching out and

Saying you know when is it that we were going to go live and um it’s been a little been a challenge for us to kind of get everything together to to go live because normally when we do go live we always try to have content for you guys and give you

Information um this one’s going to be a little bit different this one we’re just kind of shooting the breeze with you so again any questions you might have just drop it in the comment and you know we’ll try to answer it to the uh best of our abilities um I don’t suspect there’s

Going to be a lot of people on this live just because we haven’t been live for such a long time and the timing is different too post this already 900 p.m uh Linda it is Christmas Eve for you guys yes right so it’s Christmas day for

Us it’s the it’s December 25th and for most people on the you know in the western part of the world it’s Christmas Eve so yeah Linda says she’s going to Hawaii in two weeks that’s epic right after the uh you have planned Linda which island you going uh let us

Know I I may be wrong but I think majority of the people who reach out to us it’s it’s questions on on Instagram they would ask us like you know questions on Hawaii right it’s like everyone goes to Hawaii that’s like one of the most uh traveled places to go to

And I guess also because for um westerners you don’t need um a passport to go there and you know it’s beautiful of course so Deborah says uh are you homesick yet yes we are homesick especially for the holiday season yes for the holiday season want to be family

We to see everyone and um even though we were traveling every Christmas we would still try to go back home to New York and uh be with um you know the family and everyone uh but this one is a little bit different just because we’re on the

Opposite side of the world so it makes it that much difficult to travel and then have to come back here here again so um we decided to stay out here for Christmas but yet uh you know yeah homesick happens you know um when you’re traveling um kind of as much as we do

Sometimes it doesn’t really factor in but there are times like aren said during the holidays you know and technically you want to be with your loved ones and stuff then and they’re not around yeah it makes it a little bit difficult for sure hope that answers that question Christine hi Merry

Christmas Christine you’re teasing me I’ve been thinking about that white cake since we’ve been to bise yes it is the best cake ever had and mind you I love chocolate like I would not eat any type of cake if it’s not Chocolate facts this B white cake with caramel the best it’s

A problem she talk she still talks about it and Christine always teases us and says oh I have it’s you know it’s that time of the year where I order she’ll order like so basically the way this cake is made someone local makes it you

Don’t go into a store to buy it right in B so you have a local woman who makes it but you have to put in your order that’s how much of a high demand this cake is and it is incredible so most of the people in Biz when they do have a

Special occasion like a graduation a birthday or anything like that they would call her and put it in order for the size of the cake and everything else and the amount and then that’s how it’s made but yeah it’s it’s incredible uh what else do we have here wow Linda

Is going on the pride of America cruise starting in Honolulu wow um not my first visit we have not actually done a cruise out of Hawaii of Hawaii let us know how that goes yeah that would be a very good experience Pride um is a pretty old ship

But the stops that it makes stops on Big Island yes really great yeah it stops on Big Island Kawaii um and wo obviously it sales out of so yeah let us know what your experience um is like on the ship but reach out to us on Instagram or

Facebook or uh comments in here on the YouTube YouTube we we are we were always under the impression that cruises out of Hawaii is expensive I think the last time when we were living in Hawaii and we looked compared to say a cruise out of Miami it was a a huge difference in

Price so we didn’t do it but let us know um what how how affordable it really was or how expensive it really is and I would definitely like to Circle back around and and and you found a good deal in January Marlin is here what’s up Mar happy happy happy holidays and merry

Christmas to you and your family I got I got I got the whole B crew in here representing so so sweet yes is here family family is here at least online live stream that is really nice thank you uh Merry Christmas to you Mel thank you for Christmas it is really sweet um

To have familiar faces on holidays thank you thank you um so uh let’s talk about kind of like what I there there’s been times where I know I think a few people had reached out to us on Instagram and they said hey we haven’t heard anything

From you guys in a while are you guys okay well obviously because we weren’t putting out content as much and as frequent as we were on Instagram at least yes on Instagram on YouTube we still putting out a lot of videos yes but sometimes what happens is that

Depending on where we’re traveling to we really get consumed with filming so much day after day after day it’s a constant go go go go go and sometimes we don’t put out stuff on on Instagram or we don’t put out stuff on YouTube and we might disappear for a little while but

You know we’re still in the game it’s just that it’s just footage upon footage being compiled and has to be sorted and edited and all that and sometimes it just takes time that’s all it is yeah and all this platforms really sometimes you don’t know where to allocate your

Time to because we have YouTube shorts we have the main content on YouTube that is obviously taking up uh the entire time for editing and stuff so sometimes Instagram gets um pushed back and Tik toac as well right and um especially it’s um it’s very hard to manage so many

Platforms but absolutely try to our best Merry Christmas Jason Jason’s here yeah it’s official I got the whole family up in here this is epic I wasn’t expecting this thanks for joining guys awesome so cool so story time let’s get into a little bit of story so well we

Have quite a few stories I don’t know which one you want to start with so let’s let’s let’s talk about uh the last time when we had to leave Thailand so basically when we well before we do that so let’s um tell them right why we are

Here in Thailand and how was the situation okay you start Okay so we’ve been in Thailand for already four months or or six months well we’ve been in Thailand for two months before then we left then we came back and um since we came back it’s been four months that we

Are in Thailand and in order to stay in Thailand legally obviously uh we come in on a tourist visa which is for Americans is for one month and then you can renew it and extend it for one month while you’re in the country but after the two

Months so the total is two months uh of the tourist visa everyone is allowed to have and then you would have to leave the country and if you want to come back and stay here longer that is called a Visa Run uh so we did a Visa Run to Vietnam so we

Thought so we filed for our Visa um electronically to Vietnam to Vietnam and we purchased the tickets we purchased tickets we purchased a a hotel place to State and everything and when we got to the airport to fly out of Thailand to go to Vietnam the ticket agent was like wait a

Minute something is wrong your identification your passport does not match the Visa and the reason it wasn’t matching is because there was one digit off on irena’s birthday and to apply for the Visa you have to um type in all your information and uh attach a copy of your

Passport were there so if there was any type of errors in my application I would assume they would reject my application because it doesn’t match my password but they approved it right and she said well you know what let me call Vietnam and explain the situation that I’m dealing

With here and they will make the final call so she went she made her phone call she came back to us she goes I’m sorry they’re saying that if the passport does not match the Visa information there is no way they can let you into the comp

Into into the country yesam is very straight yes so now we’re like oh my goodness what are we going to do we literally just had two days left before we have to leave Thailand and we didn’t know where to go what to do what our option was so she

Started giving us a few options she’s like well you could go to Japan technically you don’t need a visa but we’re like um well we weren’t planning on going to Japan and when we do go to Japan we’re planning on staying there for a while so Japan and it is pretty

Far from Vietnam I don’t know how many hours four or six hours right and remember this is a Visa Run so technically we were just going to leave Thailand just for a few days and fly right back in that’s the point of it it was we weren’t leaving for good so um

And we only had like two nap saacks with us right so um the ticket agent gave us a couple more of um different things choices for us to choose from and she mentioned Cambodia and she’s like well in Cambodia you’ll get the 30 uh day visas upon arrival so

We wouldn’t have to worry about that well Cambodia was on our list of one of the places to go it just wasn’t at the moment but then we had to figure out hey I guess that’s the only way to go because we also had to factoring well

What does it cost to fly to Cambodia and Cambodia is a a neighboring country to Thailand so it’s really close and we could just kind of hop back and forth so we went to the ticket agent they pulled up the numbers we got a flight yeah it

Was literally within an hour arriving to the airport we had to change our flights entirely round trip we have to book quickly the hotel where to stay where to stay right because they won’t let you into Cambodia unless they know where you’re going to stay so we had to while where’re while

The ticket agent is working out the ticket information arena is on her phone trying to figure out okay where we going to stay what’s the best location it was it was so chaotic I wish I had filmed it but we were so stressed out in a moment

That that was the last thing I was thinking about doing was filming we were just trying to pull information from everywhere and we couldn’t reapply for Vietnam Visa right away because Vietnam Visa takes minimum two to three business days and when we applying for the Visa

Originally it took us five days to get the visa so reapplying for the Visa wasn’t really the option and it was just too short of a time to um until we had to leave so we and we were already at the airport so we had to

Make a very last everything was fast I mean literally after it was booked we had an hour to get on the flight so everything was just so chaotic I think that was one of the most chaotic uh times we’ve actually had where we don’t plan this was the shortest uh trip we ever

Planned plan yeah well we had to plan when we were on the spot right it’s like you have to leave now where you going where you going yeah make up your mind so we could plug it in the system but that worked out great Cambodia I wasn’t thrilled about going to Cambodia again

It was on our list I didn’t really know much about it Arena had been there in the past many years so right so she kind of understood certain things about Cambodia and kind of where we should go and it was amazing it was really really great in Cambodia I really really

Enjoyed it yeah can you imagine um drinks gin and tonic there is only $2 of course depending on the place there are places where you pay $10 for it but I was just blown away that we were able to get a drink for $2 and it

Was good it wasn’t like you know watered down or anything it was it was perfect uh we did what did we do when we were there we went to um the temple CM re right um we did also uh we did the floating village yeah that was really really

Interesting and so we’re telling you guys this of course you haven’t seen the Vlogs come out yet I’m goingon to get to why that hasn’t populated as yet because that’s another issue and if it ever will if it ever will yes fingers crossed so

Um yeah we we went to a um a lady boy show that was really cool so that was the first time I’ve ever been to a lady boy show just more trans yeah yeah it wasn’t lady boy was more trans but basically it was like this little bar

And they had a little stage and they would play certain songs and lip sync yeah and they would come out and they would lip sync these songs but the costumes they would come out in it’s just it’s crazy I really enjoyed myself it was really cool yeah so K A Merry

Christmas Merry Christmas to you and your I saw you went to Japan and you really enjoyed it yeah like Japan right now is at the like the top top of our list we’re not sure when we’re going to get there but we still want to it’s

Like but when we go we really want I know you know a lot of people say Japan can be expensive but when we go there we want to make sure that we’re able to stay there for a while and enjoy it and you know all the Ducks are aligned for when

We go there because we definitely want to explore Japan it’s just so different there and I think that’s what attracts me the most it’s like night and day you know hardly anyone speaks English and everything is in Japanese with maybe just a few places where they do have

English translation but not too many so it’s for me it’s really different being in a place we’ve I don’t think we’ve ever traveled in a place where they don’t speak English or things are not translated in English that’s another thing about Cambodia a lot of people spoke English in Cambodia taxi drivers

Restaurants they speak very well very well very well um what was the other place uh Vietnam not so much there were a few people who spoke English but mainly Hotel hotels staff and stuff yeah so yeah that was our that was our issue we had that’s why we ended up in

Cambodia instead of back to Vietnam now this would have been the second time we were in Vietnam we did the north of Vietnam and then we came to Thailand and then when we did the Visa Run it would have been the south of of Thailand so it

Would have been saang south of Vietnam sorry so it would have been um Saigon which is known as um oim right and then we would have went to a couple more places going a little bit more up north to kind of complete Vietnam but we are planning on going back there very soon

And because they already booked but we still again Visa Visa Vietnam Visa situation uh I applied for my Visa when I was applying for devance they had a payment system issue and when I went back inside the application I wanted to repay for the Visa and it just didn’t

Allow there is an error so yeah but this time we made sure we have plenty of time and this time I rechecked the application like so many times so remember guys if you have any questions don’t be afraid to drop it in the comments so we could um answer them um

Let’s talk about the places we’ve been so we’re going to kind of recap 2023 and our travels we’ll try to run through that um so uh for those of you who don’t know we got married um in I I shouldn’t say we got married in the

Malds we got married in New York but the ceremony was in the Maldives um early this year and we have traveled wait before I tell you how many places we’ve traveled if you guys can take a guess how many places we have traveled in 2023 drop it in a comment and let us

Know and we’ll see who who comes with within the closest maybe someone will actually nail it but right now let us know drop a comment let us know how many places we have been in 2023 and then yeah take a guess yeah take a guess places do you think and I can’t believe

Our anniversary is coming up soon it’s yes the time flies I can’t believe it’s all been almost a year um and um we actually booked our anniversary trip to Singapore Singapore yes we’ll be in Singapore and we just got back from qual lumur yes in Malaysia that was really

Really epic so back to what I was saying before um we have an issue with our storage with our hard drive our hard drive clocked out on us and on that hard drive we have all our Vlogs that we’ve been filming for the past what two

Months yeah more than that yeah so all our stuff is on there and it’s a lot of content and we reached out to a company here in Thailand and they specialize in Bangkok they specialize because we’re In Paya by the way and Bangkok is about two hours from here by bus and they

Specialize in retrieving information off your hard drive if your hard drive happens to fail like ours did so fingers crossed they’re able to at least get majority of the information off the hard drive and we’ll be able to you know continue edit editing those videos and

Share it with you guys because we did have some epic trips Yolanda is here happy H Hey Yolanda nice to see you happy holidays oh really nice than you for joining so um so back to what I was saying before um we’ll just kind of tell

Them how many places we’ve been you want to say so we counted this year 2023 marks 33 places we’ve been to this year yeah the list is crazy we didn’t when we thought about that we stopped and we thought about it the the other day said

50 yeah 33 33 33 is the number um it was close because um we were trying to figure out how many places and we we had to actually take an hour to try to go through our travels and say we we left New York we did this we did that so yes

The number is 33 um to list them out for you we started off in Aruba yeah we did um two cruises two backtack cruises out of Puerto Rico out of Puerto Rico so we did Aruba we did uh this was in the ABC islands we did Aruba carasau Baner St

Lucia and St kids that was all one Cruise right and then we got on the following cruise and well of course we explored Puerto Rico and then we did St Thomas St Martin Antiga bar bar bados and then we came back to Puerto Rico we went to kbra yeah off the um

Island of uh Puerto Rico and uh what do we do after that so out of these cruises what was your favorite place wow that’s hard to say because like Barbados jumps out at the on the top for me just because the water in Barbados is so nice it’s so clear it’s

Clean the beaches are just sand all the way through like it’s not Rocky yeah the weather was perfect and that’s all we really did in Barbados like we didn’t even go into the town and explore any like historic places or pass by Rihanna’s house or anything yeah James

Is here Merry Jam Merry Christmas thank you for joining us are you celebrating this Christmas Eve with your family what are you doing are you having dinner let us know yeah so that’s that’s the crazy thing about Trav right like when you’re traveling and you’re not able to make it

Home you know to family that’s the part of it that’s kind of like yeah it’s not that great you know the traveling is great but then when time comes around for you to be with family and then they’re not around or you’re just too far away or it just doesn’t work out

With travels I think this was the first thanksgiv for us without turkey oh yeah turkey turkey the way Devon makes his turkey is the best turkey ever and the reason why is because well first of all I don’t even think there’s turkey in Thailand we never seen But and not only that all

Places all condos here in Thailand they do not have ovens they just have the stove tops but no ovens that’s why uh our kitchen is really small and we’re not even able to prepare any like holiday meals so this holidays no turkey yeah no ham none of that stuff no white

Cake none of that so yeah it’s it’s it’s been a little tough for that because at least if you had a a a holiday meal it kind of brings you a little bit closer to the feeling of holidays but when you wake up in the morning this is the only holidays

Right yeah Jan said mellow evening here dinner with my father large you dinner tomorrow night oh sound nice awesome awesome John John hey welcome Happy Holidays to you um James says are we having a Thai food listen we have we well I shouldn’t say we have Thai food every day because

Then that would be a lie so where we live it’s literally one block away from a food market you want to explain what the food market is yeah so Thailand is known for street food and when I was coming here I was very suspicious about street food

Because when we lived in Bali there’s no no for street food because of B belly uh which is a bug that you can get from unsanitary food so and um I’m I’m very picky when it comes to food so Street Markets for me I was like I’m not sure

If I want to be eating from straight markets but uh Thailand is very good uh when it comes to the food and um the sanitary conditions are much better than in Bali they use gloves and way better than Vietnam yeah yeah and it tastes actually really good and also

Here in Thailand the restaurants at least where we at are not really that great they look more like just open air hole in the wall they don’t care about decorations so it’s like wooden chairs and the view is not even so great right the restaurants are not really nice

Restaurants again as compared to like Bali when we were there the restaurants are themed out they’re they’re designed very well some are modern some are hobo yeah they got Vibes they all got Vibes in Bali that’s one thing but here it’s not it’s just a square some chairs and

Tables and call it a day so we don’t really go out and eat much at all almost hardly ever and that’s you know Norm we love going out to eat and having the last time we went out to eat um I think well it was a fireworks uh display

Happening on the beach and we went to see that and then I think another time uh Kenny G um was performing and I think we we had dinner out but besides that we just eat from the Street Markets yeah and every day the street market have really good food and they have good

Options I Blown Away uh there’s a stall with Russian food and the lady cooks really well reminds me of uh you know my um home cooking my mom’s cooking my sister’s cooking so um I eat a lot from there uh as far as Thai food they do a

Lot of um saté which is meat on a stick so it’s barbecue grill they have roasted chicken and Indian food they Mexican food here so as far as Thai food we don’t really eat that much Thai food very um I think we had um we had um Pat

Tha once yeah there is a guy cooking p and he has a line a line everybody goes to him we had it we thought it was a little bit too soggy it just wasn’t up to par so we never went back to him but

He always has a line he has like one of the largest lines in the food market so so as far as Thai food we don’t eat too much of it um when we were in the northern Thailand we went we had an amazing experience on on a Thai cooking

Class so we learned how to uh make a lot of dishes and U tamka soup which is coconut soup is Devon’s favorite soup uh and uh he makes it so well so a few times he made it at home for us so we do have a stove and we do have a microwave

But we don’t have an oven so I’m able to kind of cook the soup the Thai soup and it’s really cool because so the Thai soup you need certain ingredients for it to taste the way it’s supposed to taste and if you’re living um in the states in

The States you have to go to maybe a Thai market an Asian market or a gourmet a gourmet store that might have a Thai section and still not even because you need the you need the gang the what is it called the gangan I forgot so it looks almost like

A um like a ginger root but it’s not Ginger a lot of people want to compare to Ginger it kind of looks like it but it’s smaller and it’s thinner but totally different tastes the name also of the leaf and then there’s a specific

Green Leaf that you have to put in it as well and it’s very pungent very aromatic and when you put it in the soup it’s it it makes the soup so if you don’t have that there is no substit substitution you can use to make it taste that way

And when you smell that leaf it actually smells like that soup exactly if you smell the leaf you smell the soup exactly and the way they sell it in the markets in the in the uh Fruit markets and the vegetable markets they have a rubber band and have like the leaf they

Have the um what’s the long thing called again um lemon lemon lemongrass no it’s not lemongrass I can’t it’s too early for me I can all the ingredients are are bundled together in a rubber band So when you buy that you have the soup you just add coconut water and you’re good

To go maybe just a few other ingredients forever someone is here if you don’t know they our friends also YouTubers Chris and Martha uh they also got married this year and they changed their name soed Chris and Martha in in Chris yeah they are now forever Summer James

Says ala Forever Summer who is hiding behind the name uhuh exactly exactly so what are you guys doing um for the New Year’s right because Christmas is here and then the other big event is New Year’s what is everyone doing let us know what you have planned what are the

What are the big plans and also um is there anyone in here right now that’s uh looking to travel in 2024 and if so what’s the first destination you guys are heading to we definitely know sorry if you’re just joining us Merry Christmas happy holiday to everyone uh

Joyce is here Joyce happy holiday honestly it’s so good to have you all here with us uh because again we are in Thailand and we don’t have our family so we feeling a little homesick so it is so nice to have uh devance family from pleas here live with us our friends

Chris and Marta and all of you James Joyce um Yolanda we so really we we love being live with you and interact with you and seeing H familiar names and um chat and hang out with you life at least virtually like this it it makes a difference and we really grateful to

Have you here yes sure and uh I am really excited myself for for the New Year’s because our friends from the West Coast well do you consider that w w Co yeah are coming to Thailand yeah they’re actually coming to Thailand to kind of hang out with us it’s going to be

Awesome um we will introduce you to them as as we create uh videos while we’re there in Thailand we’re we’re well we’re gonna go down to um down south yeah further south and uh we’re looking to have a really good time Chris says he’s actually having a new New Year’s bash in

His house that who is coming gonna be it’s GNA be a house party champ champagne New Year’s Eve live or he wants to know if we’re gonna do H well I don’t that’s gonna be morning for us I don’t think we’ll wake up for that oh

Yeah because we will no no no no no oh yeah that’s right we will celebrate New Year’s first and then hours oh well maybe that’s going to be afternoon for us and uh so if we broadcast the same time it would we would just have to wake up

Early from a night of New Year’s partying we’ll see we won’t promise but we’ll let you know James thank you for getting up early to live stream today thank you uh that’s actually an effort for me Devon always have 56 in the morning I like to

Sleep in and um yeah I’m I’m a little slow the morning so let’s see what we had here oh Yolanda said um we had our Christmas dinner today on the 24th and on New Year’s Eve um would be at the church no dinner my

Family uh and I will be going to to a Norwegian Cruise celebrating our 40th anniversary in October anniversary oh well it’s it’s almost in the year okay yeah yeah 7:30 p.m. here 7:30 so that means you are on the west coast yes James is on the west

Coast uh Deborah says I have two cruises set for 2024 so Carnival Radiance to Mexico and then Disney Fantasy uh to torella and to St Thomas nice nice um we’ve never been to torella no we never been to TARTA but um so St Thomas we’ve been to St Thomas

Twice three three times no three times maybe three times I think we just flew there one time in stay of a hotel and we went twice on a cruise yeah as St Thomas for us uh Deborah have you been to St Thomas before let us know in the

Comment beauty sleep is a must even for [Laughter] Chris yeah so um I’m trying to figure out so when we go for New Year’s we’re going to be going to uh puket we will be in puket and then we’re going to go off to one of the neighboring islands and that’s where

We’re going to celebrate our New Year again with our friends coming from the West Coast um so we’re looking forward to that and then we planned our anniversary our anniversary is going to be the first time we’re going to leave Thailand no no we’re going to Vietnam first right

So we have to do a Visa Run round two well yeah round three for Vietnam right uh and then we are going to there in January to reset our visa and then we are going to Singapore in February and from Singapore we are flying to another Island to in Thailand it’s called kosamu

It’s a very popular Island I’ve never been there so I have high expectations yes and uh well we’ve been told by a lot of people who we meet who’ve been there and they said that’s like the place to be it’s so beautiful there so definitely looking

Forward um actually one of the places I think that to us in our travels up to this point that has been the biggest shocker culture shock I would have to say it would be Vietnam you yeah definitely yeah Vietnam is definitely has been a culture shock but I’m sure

Japan will top that times 10 yeah uh we recently came back from p lumur and and uh when I was in koala lumur many years ago about maybe 12 13 years ago um I that was my least favorite place uh out of seven countries in seven southeast

Asia that I uh went to at that time because uh I did not feel safe there and a lot of men specifically were approaching me and my friend and asking if we were Muslims or not so we didn’t feel comfortable and um back in the days it wasn’t really the smartphones when

Well at least we didn’t have smartphones where we can just search uh what to do and stuff like that so we didn’t really have a good time in koala lumur but this time uh we went with Van I really enjoy koal yeah it’s really nice there the food really really good prices really

Really good and the city is so clean yes the city is very clean and developing very fast too um Yolanda says well guys it’s 9:30 here um have to get up at at 4 in the morning uh you’re lovely couple have a happy and safe New Year and happy

Travels love you much same to you thank you so much happy holidays and thank you for stopping by we appreciate it um so what else we have here oh so back to the list of the places we’ve been um we also after we left uh kbra we did

Um what did we do we did the malds so we did Crossroads in the malds we did lucks we did dig we did centa we did maushi um and we also did um Mal and Hulu Mal right because we stayed in those places as well and that’s all

Within uh the malds and then we flew to Bali then from Bal we flew over to the neighboring Island which was n panita and that was great we had a really good time there and then we flew into Bangkok and then we did changmai Chang

Rai the northern da so we were in Upper north of Thailand so right now where we are in our Vlogs we did um we just left nin Bing that is the last Vlog we published I think three four days ago and then next we’re going to be um going

To hoan and hoan is really beautiful moving forward the other places that I mentioned we don’t know fingers are crossed again if you’re just joining us our hard drive crashed and we have to see if we can get the data pulled off of it and all our Vlogs are on that hard

Drive so fingers crossed that we’re able to recover at least most of it but I’m confident it will because the company that we’re going to in Bangkok that’s that’s what they specialize in that is all they do is that they get the information off your computer or off a

Hard drive they can recover it for you they have the I guess yeah they specialize in data recovery data recovery yeah so that’s really awesome um what do we have here oh TNT is in New York uh he said oh wow no it’s t t New York I don’t know

What t means Chris what is that uh uh he said let’s think up is in elnido so well I’m I’ll let Chris spew his stuff here if he wants to in the comment but he has some exciting things going on within the next year or two and I know he’s very

Excited about it and he’s kind of mentioning it a little bit yeah um t t New Year I I don’t know T what’s Ted Chris he said be careful in the Philippines you’re going to want to settle down there well we’re definitely going to find out for sure um so we are planning

To leave Thailand so we we have a condo here that we are renting uh we have a lease and from here we just traveling to other different places this way we kind of have a place to keep our most our luggage and uh rest in between travels

And plan and edit and catch up with work and from here we just go to other places so we have um our place here till the end of April yeah and um um from there we are going to start traveling again so that’s a plan for

2024 oh um so it’s a t is a big celebration in Vietnam oh what kind of so New Year celebration in Vietnam we didn’t really know anything about us when we were in um Cal lour we were talking to a taxi driver and he said within the next

Few months or weeks or something there’s a massive celebration going on in Cal lur we went to a a place called Batu Caves it’s a beautiful cave and they have a temple inside of it you go inside the cave but to get to the cave you have

To go up these stairs and the stairs are all colorful um if you’re following us on uh social media on Instagram I think the last um the last post I did on Instagram is us sitting on the stairs and the Drone kind of flew back and it

Exposed the stairs and the statue so that is about two caves and we went there and the taxi driver was telling us there’s a celebration that happens and he said did he say something like 22,000 people or something like a massive amount of people is going to show up at

That one Temple and I can’t imagine even what like 200 people in that Temple would look like so I don’t understand how 22,000 people can be there it’s going to be like Madness and he said it happens over a few days so that’s wild um what else we have

Here am I felt like we haven’t been here for so long and like catching up on everything is so yeah uh do I have anything that we wanted to talk about NAD from Puerto Rico yay we were just talking about Puerto Rico just now hope you got

That um yeah I think that that was all that I had uh written down as far as our our notes but yeah we’re looking forward to 2024 it should be really exciting again things are kind of back to normal so traveling is not as hectic as what is

What it once was of course a lot lot of other things but yeah really looking forward to 2024 and hopefully we could add another 33 destinations if not more maybe we hit uh I think it was Yanda that said 50 right yeah yeah maybe we hit that 50

Mark but then again we still travel so probably not yeah what’s one place that is on your bucket list that you want to make for 2024 well I don’t know if it’s going to be 2024 or not but uh again I do want to go to Japan and um we

Have not done much in Europe yet but um that part of the world also is on our list and I think um when we do go to Europe we’ll probably get another place um for a while and from there we’ll just hop to different places

Yeah says 33 next year let us know on uh in the comments kind of what what what is Your Bucket List travel destination I’m I’m interesting to see where you guys would like to go like if you had one place to choose to go to next year

Whether it’s in your reach right now or not what would it be what would that place be um Japan yeah I think would be but also for Christmas next year or if not the year after I definitely would love to go to Christmas Village I don’t

Know if you guys have heard of it but it is amazing and you could do dog sledding and all the Christmasy stuff it’s just epic there and once I found that that place existed I’m like yo we have to go there like literally Santa Claus is

There like Santa is there you know and he has a little mailbox thing and he writes out all his letters it’s literally like the North Pole what country is it located is it in Finland I think it might be in Finland I think it might be in Finland yeah so

Yeah looking forward to that that’s going to be really epic trying to get more a little bit more unusual things in the travel you know forever somewhere anywhere just be out we’ll be for sure but yeah we have to link in the Philippines uh Chris definitely all right I think we kind of

Covered it all no did we miss any comments any questions let me just kind of go back here to make sure we didn’t miss any anyone’s question so today we are planning um it’s Christmas day for us but we are planning to go to the immigration when you arrive to Thailand

If you’re just um a tourist usually your hotel or your Airbnb host lean back a little bit oh um your Airbnb host will register you so Thailand requires you you to have a registration but because we have um a candle here we have to go to the immigration office ourselves

Every time we arrive into country and register our address it’s a quick and free procedure nevertheless you just have to just go to the immigration and do it so this is what we are planning to go um after this like literally after this we’re going to go down there um way

Said Australia would be amazing yes Australia is nice we want to go back to Australia definitely for sure that’s also on our list Australia is beautiful nothing more fun than visit the immigration on Christmas Day on top of that on Christmas day so yeah but we’re we’re not really anticipating a lot of

People to be there normally it’s you know you it’s about an hour and a half to two hours of waiting around you know for your number to be called but I don’t anticipate it to be that way I could be wrong it could be be like hey it’s

Christmas everyone will think it’s the perfect time to go get your documents straightened out and everyone is just there all at the same time but in um Thailand there’s not too many Americans here at least in the part where we are at yeah Australians Germans December 25th is an American

Christmas right so yeah maybe it would be crowded there won’t be any difference yeah be interesting when we go there and find out though um okay I think that’s it I think we’re good to go well thank you so much for joining it was a pleasure hanging

Out with you finally Christmas Eve our Christmas day yes and of course we wish you guys all the best happy holidays Merry Christmas Happy New Year’s no matter what you’re celebrating K Quanza whatever it might be merry Christmas and prosperous new year new year to the

YouTube have a blessed time de and Arena say hi to Mom and on for us absolutely thank you so much Chris and same to you and your family and same to you and everyone else who have joined us in this uh live thank you so much for taking the

Time to join us and connect with us again it’s been a while and we promise we will try to do a little bit better in 20124 and try to go live a little bitly a little bit more for her it’s just it’s going going be a struggle to get her up

That’s a that’s a part of the whole thing but yes so we thank you guys for joining and um we definitely will see you again we will keep you posted and up to date maybe we do another live to tell you what happened with the story on our hard

Drive if we can get all those Vlogs transferred and saved from our hard drives because it’s a lot it’s about 30 I didn’t even know it’s about 30 to 40 videos that would be lost in our travels if not to mention all the past videos because we always kind of

Save that stuff so it’d be a lot of content loss if they cannot retrieve that so hopefully that works out and that would be a great year great way to start the new year and then we’ll just continue putting out those Vlogs um in the order that they were filmed thank

You so much James thank you guys have a great 2024 you too all right guys and again we didn’t promise anything for New Year’s champagne toast but who knows I think we might just pop in let’s see what happens so we’ll see you guys in the next one again thanks for stopping by

And merry Christmas and happy holidays and just be out with us

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