September 13, 2012 in Asia, North America, Thailand, Travelogue, United States
The sky over the midwestern United States is sapphire blue dotted with whip cream white clouds. The view from seat 26E is stunning. I never get tired of looking at […]
September 6, 2012 in Asia, Education, Thailand, Travelogue
As I sit to write this Tony is at his desk working. Hannah is at the kitchen table slicing a pear and eating the slices off of the knife blade […]
September 5, 2012 in Asia, blog, Thailand, Travelogue, Vietnam
Southeast Asia is well known for being home to many different kinds of street foods. Some are relatively normal. Walking down a crowded street somewhere in an Asian city, you’re […]
September 4, 2012 in Asia, Malaysia, North America, Thailand, Travelogue, United States
In one short week I’m leaving my family. It’s true, but don’t worry, I’m not abandoning them completely, I’m just hopping continents for a couple of weeks to attend a […]
September 3, 2012 in Asia, Thailand, Travelogue
One of the things that we love about traveling slowly is that we have time. Time to work. Time to rest. Time to learn. Time to dig deep. Time to […]
August 27, 2012 in Asia, Education, Thailand
Rain is falling in sheets over our clay tile roof. For going on forty hours now, it’s been non-stop. We keep relearning the meaning of “monsoon.” The rain was so […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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