Basic Proficiency Test for International Licensing of Drivers
Asia, Thailand, TravelogueAs you might have noticed, we have a couple of teenagers. If we were in the USA, Hannah would have […]
A visit to ODA Cambodia: Who says one person can’t change the world?
Asia, Cambodia, TravelogueYou can’t imagine the dust: Iron red, powder fine, packed as hard as concrete and yet somehow continually kicked […]
Dreaming of hostels on an all night bus: Siem Reap to Home.
Asia, blog, Cambodia, Thailand, TravelogueIt took us 30 hours on the bus to get from Siem Reap, Cambodia to home (Nai Yang, Thailand). […]
A Descent Into Hell: The Killing Fields of Cambodia
Asia, Cambodia, TravelogueThe air is warm and swirling in that way that only tropical air does. It smells of the frangipani blossoms […]
Notes On An Overland Bus Trip from Laos to Cambodia: Or, My 38th Birthday
Asia, Cambodia, Laos, TravelogueWhoever said, “The joy is in the journey,” clearly has not traveled overland through Southeast Asia. My birthday breakfast was […]
On Finding “Travel Zen,” and other lessons in Buddhism
Asia, Laos, TravelogueTravel is one long lesson in patience, punctuated with epic highs, undergirded by the unavoidable lows. The “ferry” crossing the […]
Riverboats & Ruins: Wat Phao, Champasak, Laos
Asia, Laos, TravelogueWe love a good boat ride. The children were delighted to clamber aboard a riverboat and slip out into the […]
Living Like Kings: Champasak Palace, Paske, Laos
Asia, Laos, TravelogueChampasak Palace was built by Jao Boon Oum, the last king of Laos. Unfortunately, he wasn’t able to see it […]
Bill Gates is a Communist Collaborator: Misadventures on the Vietnam-Laos Border
Asia, Laos, Travelogue, VietnamIt’s never good to start a day with the realization that two iPods have been stolen. One from each hotel […]
Bunkers and Pagodas on the Perfume River (Hue, Vietnam): In Which Ezra Has a “Culturally Broadening Experience.”
Asia, Travelogue, VietnamI’ll never again consider rice in the neutral palate of colours. My experience with the grain until now has been […]
Wherever I go, that’s where the party’s at! (by Hannah)
Asia, Travelogue, VietnamMopeds zoom past on all sides, going in every direction. Mom shrieks intermittently and squeezes her eyes tightly shut. Ezra […]
Flashbacks & Lightning on the Night Bus: Hanoi to Hue
Asia, Travelogue, VietnamEvery now and then the epic nature of our existence strikes me. The sheer wonder that we’ve coalesced out of […]