Nick and Kristine met in Oslo in 2017, which sounds romantic until you learn it took two full years for anyone to make a move — even though there was chemistry from day one. In 2019, they finally started dating — and were apparently so confident in the relationship that they decided to move to Bangkok together before their first anniversary. Bold strategy.

Then 2020 happened. While the rest of the world was figuring out sourdough, Nick and Kristine took a slight detour and started traveling. And kept traveling. 36 countries later, they've survived long-haul flights in middle seats, food poisoning in the Sahara Desert, and not having their own full-time apartment for over a year — which is honestly the more impressive feat, particularly if you know how tidy one of them likes to be, and how messy the other one is…