Describing our combined budget for Malaysia and Singapore is a little bit like trying to average your restaurant bills for a hamburger joint and a steakhouse. The average costs for each place are just so different that lumping them together doesn’t give you an accurate picture of what it costs to visit each place on […]
Archives for July 2015
Happy Birthday, Mr. BackpackInvesting!
He’s 6,000 miles away with poor internet connection in … (mystery destination reveal)… IRAN right now, but I couldn’t resist sending some birthday love over the internet to my husband. He’s the mastermind behind this little trip of ours, and I couldn’t ask for a better partner to go through this adventure and all our future ones […]
Our Utopian Stopover in Singapore
I’m wracking my brain to try to figure out a more literary way of describing Singapore other than “ridiculously awesome.” The safest city in the world. A cleaner and friendlier NYC. As filled with luxury malls as Las Vegas and shopping streets that are like Chicago’s Magnificent Mile on steroids. Sparkling, affluent, businesslike, but still culturally […]
Taking it Easy in Kuala Lumpur
Kuala Lumpur is a very livable city. Although we got a sense of this when we first arrived and saw the clean streets and luxurious shopping malls, it was further reinforced during the week’s time we spent there without much of an agenda at all. We needed to be in KL long enough for Chris […]
More Ways to Follow Redhead Roamer
Hello, friends! I’ve finally figured out how to set up a subscribe feature on Redhead Roamer so you don’t have to periodically check the website to see if there is any new content. As we learned in business school, push strategies tend to work better than pull strategies. So, in that spirit, would you like to be emailed […]