From London to Singapore by Train

I’m about to embark on an adventure. Truth be told, the adventure has already begun. Cristóbal and are I getting ready to pack up our lives into 3 small bags and travel from London to Singapore by train over the course of about 6 months. Whenever I tell this to people, I’m greeted with a lot questions about why and how we plan to do this. My responses never seem adequate to express how I feel or why we’ve decided to do what we’re doing. I guess most big life decisions never make as much sense to anyone but yourself.

Essentially, after living in Miami for nearly 6 years, it’s pretty clear that it is time to move on. Cristóbal had been looking for a new job for many months and my job that I had for the past 5 years ended when our office closed at the end of September. We never planned to stay in Miami forever, so we decided to seize this opportunity to take 6 months off and embark on an epic adventure before figuring out where to settle down next.

I love to travel. I love to plan trips. When Cristóbal and I first got married 10 years ago and we lived in Madrid, I feel like I spent all my free time buying travel books from El Corte Inglés (back in the day when books were still a thing) and planning out my dream vacations to every possible location in Europe for the least amount of money possible. Daydream-planning my next vacation is sort of my thing. So in doing research for a Southeast Asia trip that we went on this past spring,  I discovered that you can essentially travel from London to Russia, Russia to Mongolia, Mongolia to China, China to Vietnam, and Vietnam down to Singapore completely by train (except for a tiny portion in Cambodia where the train lines connecting the countries are still in the process of being finished). Something about this called to us, and we decided we couldn’t pass up this opportunity.

So here we go, having already started the ball rolling on this adventure. My plan for the next few months is for this blog to serve to document our travels, keep friends and family up-to-date on what we’re up to, and possibly even serve as a guide to others who might be hoping to do something similar. So thanks for joining me on this journey. All aboard!