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 […]

What’s in Our Health Kit

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: […]

Welcome to our Education Corner: This is us: What would you like to know?

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 […]

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 […]