After laptop hunting in Shenzhen (horrible!), visiting Shanghai Disneyland and walking the longest glass suspension bridge in the world, travelling across China and climbing on one of the most beautiful mountains in the country, we needed some serious enlightenment. And what better a place than Tibet? Travelling to Tibet has been made somewhat difficult for…
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How to Move to Another Country – A Seven Step Guide
View this post on Instagram Taroko national park 😍😍 #Taroko #adventure #hiking #Hualien #太魯閣國家公園 #太魯閣 #花蓮 #台灣 #Taiwan #nature #beautiful #tourists #布洛灣 #buluowan #mountains #roadtoself A post shared by RoadToSelf (@roadtoself_blog) on Mar 17, 2018 at 6:22pm PDT Decide to move (preferably to another country or, even continent) Send your spouse back to another country…
Koko Elämän Pituisella Matkalla!
Road To Self: Olemme jonkin aikaa etsineet blogiimme vieraskynäilijöitä Suomesta. Tänään, ystävänpäivänä Taiwanin aikaa, saamme jakaa Heidin tarinan. Heidin seikkailut ovat päätähuimaavan inspiroivia ja melkein voisi suomalainen kateus iskeä, ellei osa matkakohteista olisi yhteisiä 😉 Lue lisää alta Heidin omin sanoin: “Kuten suomalainen lauluntekijä J. Karjalainen aikoinaan lauloi: Doris oli toisenlainen, Doris oli reissunainen. Täytyy…
One Hundred Ways to Summer
As I have spent the summer on a different continent as the enginerd, and nothing much has been going on, this blog has been a bit dry lately. However, now that I’m almost done with my summer vacation (working…), it’s more than appropriate to update this blog again. Here is a list of things that…
How to Switch from Simplified to Traditional Characters While Using Pinyin Keyboard in Windows 10
AKA: How to change the Character set to traditional characters while still using Microsoft Pinyin as an input method in Windows 10 Here is a much needed, step by step guide to how to make your keyboard write traditional characters while using the pinyin input method. I myself struggled with the problem after moving to Taiwan,…
Testing YouTube embedding
Hi there ♥ We are finally on the road 🙂 We left our hometown last Saturday, visited my parents and are now at the enginerd’s parents’ place. The past week has been super hectic, and naturally I got the flu. So instead of exercising and packing, I’ve spent the last few hours learning how to edit…
Testing Twitter embedding
Hi there, and here we go again, testing! This is my little attempt to make sure I know how to embed tweets to our blog. Contact us https://t.co/QgX6hZrKba via @RoadToSelf_Blog — RoadToSelf_Blog (@RoadToSelf_Blog) October 7, 2016 It’s actually really simple. Just click the time stamp on your preferred tweet, copy the URL and paste it…
Little Things That Matter on the Road
I, the nurse, have my own little things I do when traveling. Call them hacks, if you like, to me they mean comfort, security, and survival. And coffee. I use a night guard for some serious teeth grinding problems, and since it needs to be sanitized quite often, I carry a load of Corega Tabs…
ROAD TO SELF: Bring your passport 