Before our next big journey, we stopped back briefly in Montreal to enjoy some snow and ice. We enjoyed big bowls of noodles, skating with friends, and chilly runs on mont royal. Then we spent time in Porto! Espresso climbs, gym puppies, and abandoned buildings. We snuck in some final prep runs in Porto...
One of our main goals this autumn was to explore the nature around Montreal. We went to Val David for bouldering, Alexandria for glass blowing and brunch (thanks okranauts :)), Mont Rigaud for sport climbing (and soft grades), Kahnawake Mohawk Territory for a tour of the closest indigenous reserve to Montreal, and we ran...
From Bonn, we travelled over to a new town for us – Porto, Portugal. The Okranauts had already set up camp there, so we got a fun introduction to the city. We got busy exploring the crags around the city, running to the ocean and enjoying the spectacular view of the Douro river. Our...
2022 started in a very cold and snowy Montreal. We tried to get stuck into the Montreal winter by spending lots of time outside – we did lots of running, and even tried climbing in Val David (this was a mistake – the park was not yet open for the climbing season, since most...
Kisa left for Portugal! We thought that it was going to be 5 weeks apart but we ultimately cut this down to 3 weeks as we couldn’t wait to start our European adventure together. Portugal catching up with the Okra crew was awesome. We spent a ton of quality time living with Nithya and...
After a crazy summer in Hawaii and California, we moved back to Montreal! Our return was full of old friends, kitties, walks in new neighborhoods, and discovering new parks. We got out and about more that we ever have and running helped a lot. We particularly tried to explore the mile ex (as this...
In May we made our big journey to the US & went from eating sundubu jjigae in the Korean airport to eating in n out and making dumplings with grandma Giebink. To be honest our journey with Korean Airlines was so nice I was almost sad when the 36-hour trip was over and I...
Our last few months in Cambodia had some ups and downs. Cambodia’s first real surge of cases kept us in Phnom Penh (and eventually in our apartment). It meant that we didn’t get in any trips to the coast or the mountains, but we got to explore Phnom Penh and Kandal, and spend lots...
We have been back in Cambodia for 3 months now – there are very few COVID cases here, so we have been lucky to get up to lots of awesome adventures. We did a DIY-Iron man! This iron man was truly a DIY-hacky race: We did the 3.8km swim in our 12.5m long office...
For us (as for everyone else), the last 6 months did not really go as planned. We had just gotten back to Cambodia when Malaysia entered a Movement Control Order (MCO). With everything so uncertain, we decided it would be nice to be with family and flew back to KL expecting to see how...
