Jennifer Miller

Riverboats & Ruins: Wat Phao, Champasak, Laos

We love a good boat ride. The children were delighted to clamber aboard a riverboat and slip out into the […]

Champasak Palace was built by Jao Boon Oum, the last king of Laos. Unfortunately, he wasn’t able to see it […]

It’s never good to start a day with the realization that two iPods have been stolen. One from each hotel […]

I’ll never again consider rice in the neutral palate of colours. My experience with the grain until now has been […]

Every now and then the epic nature of our existence strikes me. The sheer wonder that we’ve coalesced out of […]

Have I mentioned that Hanoi is hot? We’ve sweat more in the past two days than perhaps in our entire […]

The creak and pull of oars is a sound that settles my soul. Perhaps it is because I grew up […]

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. […]

In case you don’t know this about me: I like to sleep. In fact, I have to sleep or I […]

You might not know this, but I spend a great deal of time answering questions from readers. They come every […]

When we moved to Thailand, we didn’t move to Chiang Mai because it seemed like “everyone” we knew was already […]

Today is Ezra’s 10th birthday. Double digits are a big deal, but for him, it also marks another major landmark […]