One of my favorite memories from the Andaman View house in Phuket was spending a day cooking with Moo, our housekeeper. One afternoon when Jon was working on travel planning, the little girls were playing at the house, and Randy and Nikki took the four older kids to the beach, I decided to spend a …
Travel days are about transitions, and as we left Sri Lanka, we were ready to begin a new chapter that would include a vacation from our intense travel schedule and time with friends. The thrill and anticipation of arriving in Bangkok was tempered only by the fact that we had gotten up so early to …
After 3 nights in Kandy, we packed up once again and headed south towards our next destination on the coast near Galle. We had planned to stop at an elephant rescue center along the way. Although we had seen some wild African elephants, and even spent a day visiting an elephant sanctuary in Nairobi, we …
Highway to Home -
I sit silently, caccooned in a symphony of thought, as we speed northward along the Pan American highway, away from...
Border Crossing in Central America -
Our "end game" as I have been calling it, has been kind of a moving target, tough to pin down....
San Pedro De Atacama: A land of wonder and extremes -
As I look out over the desolate dry landscape of the Atacama with it's valleys, canyons, huge sand dunes, and...