One of the difficult things for me with keeping a blog about what I’m doing is that, for me, I’m just doing the next thing. There’s nothing particularly special about doing the next thing. No one writes (or reads) blogs about their commute to work, the drudgery of the day, the commute home, and […]
A busy month, but it's time to move on to blue waters and sandy beaches.
Blasting (at a snail's pace) through Florida. Hey, it's warm and we can stay without marina fees... how can it get better?
It's been a long while since I updated you on the voyage south. Apologies. I'll try to get you caught up. In the process, you'll understand a theme with this trip... catching up.
August 1, 2012 in Asia, Laos, Travelogue, Vietnam
It’s never good to start a day with the realization that two iPods have been stolen. One from each hotel room. It’s even less good to have that realization on […]
July 31, 2012 in Asia, Travelogue, Vietnam
I’ll never again consider rice in the neutral palate of colours. My experience with the grain until now has been in it’s dead and nutritional form, dry and opaque in […]
July 30, 2012 in Asia, Travelogue, Vietnam
Mopeds zoom past on all sides, going in every direction. Mom shrieks intermittently and squeezes her eyes tightly shut. Ezra is sitting bolt upright, staring with wide eyes as a […]
July 28, 2012 in Asia, Travelogue, Vietnam
Every now and then the epic nature of our existence strikes me. The sheer wonder that we’ve coalesced out of parts of the universe to live and breathe for a […]
July 27, 2012 in Asia, Travelogue, Vietnam
Have I mentioned that Hanoi is hot? We’ve sweat more in the past two days than perhaps in our entire lives to this point combined. Rivers of salt water run […]
July 26, 2012 in Asia, Travelogue, Vietnam
The creak and pull of oars is a sound that settles my soul. Perhaps it is because I grew up in boats. Perhaps it’s just the ceaseless rhythm that beats […]
July 25, 2012 in Asia, Travelogue, Vietnam
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be […]
July 24, 2012 in Asia, Travelogue, Vietnam
In case you don’t know this about me: I like to sleep. In fact, I have to sleep or I get rather unmanageable. My Dad used to refer to me […]
July 20, 2012 in Education, Travelogue
You might not know this, but I spend a great deal of time answering questions from readers. They come every day, in the form of email, comments on posts or […]
July 10, 2012 in Asia, Thailand, Travelogue
When we moved to Thailand, we didn’t move to Chiang Mai because it seemed like “everyone” we knew was already there. Now we know why! The second largest city in […]
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