Here’s a distillation of the best and worst of our trip around the world. We lots of fun putting this together during the final weeks of our trip. Most useful item we brought with us: Mitch’s swiss army knife. We used it for everything from extracting a sea urchin spine from Mitch’s foot at the […]
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Southeast Asian Food
Southeast Asia has a rich and diverse cuisine. There are many foods that are not on most thai restaurant menus. I didn’t explore the food as much as I could have but here are a few interesting drinks and dishes that we discovered along the way. Ginger Tea This was a favorite of mine on […]
Big Brother Mouse and COPE
When we began our trip eight months ago in Nicaragua, we weren’t even out of the parking lot of the airport when two young boys approached our car trying to sell us small straw flowers. The next day beggars approached us as we sat at a restaurant. We started to talk as a family about […]
Elephants and Waterfalls
We had decided a long time ago that we were gong to ride elephants. So during our stay in South East Asia, we constantly kept an eye out for possible rides. Eventually, in Laos, we decided to go and pay for some rides. In Luang Prabang, the town where we got the elephants, we met […]
Tuk Tuks, Trash Cans and Toilet Paper
March 10 After Emma posted her blog on the monkeys at Angkor Wat, my mother emailed and said, “I loved Emma’s post but what the heck is a tuk tuk?” We didn’t know what tuk tuks were either when we arrived in Southeast Asia seven weeks ago. There are many things that were different and […]
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
The act of traveling to a country reminds me of one of the truths of quantum physics; the act of observing will change the thing you are observing. With a lot of tourists in an area, things change. It can improve an area; roads need to be built or improved to move people around, ruins […]
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