June 02, 2006
Oaxaca City
After three weeks in Salem sorting through 40 years of junk...one pile for St. Vincent de Paul, one pile for the dump, one pile to sell at the Assistance...Read this update
May 28, 2006
House Cats In Las Vegas
Flew From Thailand to Las Vegas the end of April. Then flew youngest son, Josh, who is inbetween jobs, in from NYC to spend a week with oldest son Greg...Read this update
May 04, 2006
HI Sukhumvit Hostel
Just so you don't think I drowned in the Sangkren waters of Thailand, I spent the next few days in a great new 38 bed hostel called HI Sukhumvit in...Read this update
April 15, 2006
Sangkren Water Festival
Day before yesterday was New Years in Lao. Yesterday was New Years in Thailand, although the celebration continues for several days in these countries. We get it again! Leila took...Read this update
April 02, 2006
Luang Prabang Lao
The last time I was here was in 2002. There are few changes and not as many tourists as I expected but then this is the off season. I'm...Read this update
March 04, 2006
Chiang Mai
Flew from Koh Samui on Bangkok Air (the only airline off the island because Bangkok Air built the airport) and then on to Chiang Mai on budget Air Asia....Read this update
February 03, 2006
Visiting Doug & Luk
Arrived on Koh Samui a couple days ago on Bangkok Air to the smiling faces of Doug and Luk at the small open-air airport on Koh Samui. (Koh means...Read this update
January 07, 2006
Familiar Bangkok
Arrived in Bangkok on Jan 3rd on China Air after 17 hours and stops in Anchorage and Taiwan. There has been a cooling in Asia (northern India actually falling...Read this update
October 17, 2005
Wedding Announcement
A few days before we left Portland, our son Josh, who is currently a chef at the Tocqueville Restaurant near Union Square in Manhattan, asked us to keep the following...Read this update
Back To The West
In mid-July, a year after leaving the States to travel through Eastern Europe, Russia, Mongolia, China and Thailand, I arrived back in LA on China Air...then Portland on Alaska. The...Read this update
July 17, 2005
Thainess And The West
The July 2005 edition of the slick upscale magazine for English-speaking foreigners called The Big Chilli ran an article with interviews of prominent Bangkok residents to get their views of...Read this update
June 18, 2005
A Harley in Viet Nam
June 10, 2004 While I was in Bangkok Bob flew to Vietnam. He wrote to say he had difficulties accessing the web today and spent most of the day...Read this update
May 20, 2005
A Bus To Trang
While I was on Koh Samui visiting Luk, while Doug was in Oregon, we decided to hop a bus for Trang where Luk's family lives. This is my second visit...Read this update
May 16, 2005
"Oh New Shoes Lost Me!"
After a flight from Bangkok on Bangkok Air, I have been enjoying my 26 year-old daughter-in-law on quiet Khlong Muang Beach in Krabi Province the last couple of weeks...Read this update
April 01, 2005
Familiar Old Quarter Hanoi
I had to check out of Thailand...thought my visa was 90 days that I got in Kunming in December but it was only 60 days. So at the end of...Read this update
March 31, 2005
Back To Kuta
Yes, we are still alive in Bali after driving for a week with pedestrians and motorcycles and trucks and cars passing each other going 60 miles an hour down...Read this update
March 11, 2005
Vibrant Bangkok
Bangkok Air From Koh Samui to Bangkok again. Not a pretty city but it's vibrant. The populace, as with much of Asia, lives outdoors…almost all 10 million of them. It...Read this update
December 13, 2004
Jinghong
While I was in Guizou Province, Bob headed off for Putuashan Island and then circled back to Shanghai via Hangzhou...then flew to Jinghong to meet me at the Banna...Read this update
December 28, 2002
Ruili
Coming down out of the mountains we were happy to see Ruili lying in the green lush valley below...a larger city than I thought...a Chinese/Burma border town with a...Read this update
Bob's Thai Village Visit
While Jana and I were playing with Chinese teenagers in Ruili in the south of Yunnan, Bob spent some time in an ethnic village in the mountains in Issan Province...Read this update
November 20, 2002
Hong Kong
Wednesday November 20 2002 We flew to Hong Kong from Bangkok on China Airways at 3pm...a one hour time change. We noticed the metal spoon and fork that came...Read this update
Lovely Lao
My favorite country so far...the people are sweet but very natural and direct. Flew from Siem Reap Cambodia to Vientiane, the Capital of Lao. The “s” was added by...Read this update
October 25, 2002
Siem Reap
My original plan was to take a boat up the Mekong River in Cambodia to the Lao border and then on up through Laos but I kept hearing reports...Read this update
September 25, 2002
Hanoi
September 24 2002 Bob left Hanoi right away on the train for Sapa near the Chinese border to do some trekking among the colorful minority villages and then to...Read this update
September 05, 2002
He Ho To Rangoon
Flight to Rangoon From He Ho Question: How do you know the Westerners standing behind you in the airport check-in line are not American? Answer: Their backpacks are pink,...Read this update
August 26, 2002
He Ho & Inle Lake
August 26 2002 It is possible to take a ferry up the Irrawady to Mandalay but we chose not to do this because we heard the ferry was government-run...Read this update
August 18, 2002
Poverty, Government Greed and Human Sweetness
August 18, 2002 Rangoon (renamed Yangon) We took Thai Air to Rangoon. Bob left his Lonely Planet Guidebook Burma (renamed Myanmar by the military junta) on the plane and...Read this update
August 04, 2002
Sex In The City of Angels
August 6 2002 Bangkok Thailand The Indian pilot lovingly set the Air India wheels down on the Bangkok tarmac... Being in Thailand feels good even when you know Thais will...Read this update