I am often asked some variation of the question “What was your favorite country/place?”. I generally say “Switzerland and Indonesia”. Those are both amazing countries and we had many fantastic experiences in both of them. The reasons they generally bubble to the top when I need a quick answer are …
I believe that I (and many of you) are the at the perfect age for deeply loving Harry Potter. I read the first book when I was eleven and wistfully waited for my own letter to arrive, it never did but despite that I spent the next 8 years excitedly …
It’s that wonderful time of year when most of us start seeing reindeer on our screens, in people’s’ lawns, and generally taking over. We saw some at the zoo when we went for their lights display and my comment was “Oh good, I haven’t seen one of those in months!” …
For this Traveling Tuesday I am going to talk about one of the most magical experiences of our trip, pun intended. Well ok I am not going to talk about the whole experience because it deserves multiple entries, for now I will just talk about our long and arduous path …
For Traveling Tuesday I normally write about far away places that take a lot of effort to visit. But our country is full of all sorts of amazing “foreign” places that we forget to go to, or even talk about. This week I am going to talk about White Sands …
As we prepare for this year’s Thanksgiving I can’t help but think of our Thanksgiving feast from last year. Last year we ate at the Texas BarBQ & Steaks Restaurant in Nha Trang, Vietnam. Nha Trang Vietnam is a beach resort town in Southern Vietnam. I did not know this …
The Terracotta Army is Epic. So epic I have to believe that some lost Grecian wandered to china, saw the Terracotta army and was inspired to invent the word EPIC. There are around 9000 figures. It’s not just soldiers, though there are more than 8000 of them, there are also …
One of the common questions I get when I first tell people about my travels is, “OMG you must have major culture shock?” The answer to this question is in short, No. There are a few things that have shocked me, but overall it seems like the same America I …
Much of Asia that Nate and I have seen is distinctly trashy. I mean literally trashy, like covered in trash. There is a constant supply of litter on the ground, and sometimes a deluge of rancid trash. The trash is disgusting, but it is shocking how the locals interact with …
Today the news is filled with stories of Syrian refugees, and their treatment in various countries. I am not going to talk about that today, but I am going to talk about the Kayan Lahwi refugees in Thailand. The Kayan people are sometimes called the “long neck tribe” or more …