Remembrance Day: Lest We Forget
November 11, 2012 in Asia, Thailand, Travelogue
Sitting on the beach looking at a steel grey ocean meeting a gun metal grey sky, thinking about the significance of today… The men and women who’ve served… or cried […]
November 11, 2012 in Asia, Thailand, Travelogue
Sitting on the beach looking at a steel grey ocean meeting a gun metal grey sky, thinking about the significance of today… The men and women who’ve served… or cried […]
November 7, 2012 in Asia, Thailand, Travelogue
Nothing ruins a perfectly good dinner party quite like blood curdling screaming and thrashing about in the sand. It’s become somewhat of a twice weekly habit, meeting a few of […]
November 3, 2012 in Asia, blog, Thailand, Travelogue
Some days it just feels like you need to “get out” and “have an adventure.” We love the days when we just pile into a car, turn up the music […]
October 29, 2012 in Asia, Thailand, Travelogue
“This is almost as good as Camp Wood!” Ezra announced, with a grin of delight before he snapped his goggles back over his eyes and bombed back into the pool. […]
October 27, 2012 in Asia, Thailand, Travelogue
I have a bee in my bonnet. It’s a community bee, not any one person. Not any one comment, not any one moment, rather the culmination of annoying little buzzings […]
October 26, 2012 in Asia, blog, Education, Thailand, Travelogue
Sometimes, there are perfect days. Today was one: Lunch on the beach A long walk on the sand Sun on my shoulders Shells to collect Bubble crabs to lay on […]
October 23, 2012 in Inspiration, Travelogue
What are you reading at the moment? I am always reading. I learned to read quite young and I can’t remember a time when I didn’t have a book in […]
October 21, 2012 in Asia, Thailand, Travelogue
I don’t know if I really have the words to capture this. The following come to mind: Disturbing Nauseating Violent Sad Painful Confusing Loud Cacophonous Overwhelming Very, very foreign […]
October 20, 2012 in Asia, blog, Thailand, Travelogue
I think, in retrospect, what I will remember most is the beat of the drum. Deafening, unrelenting and punctuated with the brassy clang of cymbals. The trembling bodies of entranced […]
October 20, 2012 in Asia, blog, Thailand, Travelogue
**WARNING** Descriptions and photos in this post may be disturbing to some. Please preview for young children. We rolled down the windows on the car, as we crept into town, […]