Do You Have A Dream?
August 27, 2012 in Inspiration
One of my favourite things in life is meeting people and hearing about their fabulous dreams. We’re blessed with a pretty crazy community of dreamers and doers. We have friends […]
Malaysia, Migration and Moving Forward: Regroup!
August 25, 2012 in Asia, Thailand, Travelogue
I’ve never been very good at sitting still, and the concept of having just one iron in the fire is incomprehensible to me. I believe I get this from my […]
Basic Proficiency Test for International Licensing of Drivers
August 19, 2012 in Asia, Thailand, Travelogue
As you might have noticed, we have a couple of teenagers. If we were in the USA, Hannah would have her driver’s license by now; instead she’s learning to drive […]
A visit to ODA Cambodia: Who says one person can’t change the world?
August 15, 2012 in Asia, Cambodia, Travelogue
You can’t imagine the dust: Iron red, powder fine, packed as hard as concrete and yet somehow continually kicked up into clouds as the children shouted and ran, chasing […]
Dreaming of hostels on an all night bus: Siem Reap to Home.
August 15, 2012 in Asia, blog, Cambodia, Thailand, Travelogue
It took us 30 hours on the bus to get from Siem Reap, Cambodia to home (Nai Yang, Thailand). True, a couple of those hours were spent standing in […]
A Descent Into Hell: The Killing Fields of Cambodia
August 9, 2012 in Asia, Cambodia, Travelogue
The air is warm and swirling in that way that only tropical air does. It smells of the frangipani blossoms that are littered like a carpet of wedding flowers through […]
Notes On An Overland Bus Trip from Laos to Cambodia: Or, My 38th Birthday
August 8, 2012 in Asia, Cambodia, Laos, Travelogue
Whoever said, “The joy is in the journey,” clearly has not traveled overland through Southeast Asia. My birthday breakfast was lovely, sitting on the dock above the Mekong on Don […]
On Finding “Travel Zen,” and other lessons in Buddhism
August 5, 2012 in Asia, Laos, Travelogue
Travel is one long lesson in patience, punctuated with epic highs, undergirded by the unavoidable lows. The “ferry” crossing the Mekong, at Champasak, is of questionable safety. “It occurs to […]
Riverboats & Ruins: Wat Phao, Champasak, Laos
August 5, 2012 in Asia, Laos, Travelogue
We love a good boat ride. The children were delighted to clamber aboard a riverboat and slip out into the fast moving current of the Mekong River at Paske. It […]
Living Like Kings: Champasak Palace, Paske, Laos
August 3, 2012 in Asia, Laos, Travelogue
Champasak Palace was built by Jao Boon Oum, the last king of Laos. Unfortunately, he wasn’t able to see it finished, as he fled to France in 1975. It is […]
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