Phor Tor Festival & The Real Gift
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 […]
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 30, 2012 in Inspiration, Travelogue
I’ve been putting off writing this post,and I apologize to the Groovers, who have reminded me three times to do so! The question has been asked lots of times: […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]