Phor Tor Festival & The Real Gift
One of the things that we love about traveling slowly is that we have time. Time to work. Time to rest. Time to learn. Time to dig deep. Time to see small things that we would have to overlook if we...
View ArticleA Wedding & A Flight Around The World
In one short week I’m leaving my family. It’s true, but don’t worry, I’m not abandoning them completely, I’m just hopping continents for a couple of weeks to attend a wedding. My sweet cousin Ruth is...
View Article5 Street Foods In Asia- by Hannah
Southeast Asia is well known for being home to many different kinds of street foods. Some are relatively normal. Walking down a crowded street somewhere in an Asian city, you’re sure to see dishes of...
View ArticleLet’s Talk About Education: An Introduction
As I sit to write this Tony is at his desk working. Hannah is at the kitchen table slicing a pear and eating the slices off of the knife blade like her Gramps does. Elisha is dumping a huge bag of lego...
View ArticleThe Longest Day
The sky over the midwestern United States is sapphire blue dotted with whip cream white clouds. The view from seat 26E is stunning. I never get tired of looking at the world from 30,000 feet; high...
View ArticleFamilies On The Move Meet-Up: Penang, Malaysia Adventures
I lay on my back in the azure ocean, the temperature of a warm bath and listened to my own heartbeat. Beyond that, the soft tinkle of the bell and charms that I wear on a silver chain that had drifted...
View ArticleMy Layer Cake Life: This is not the travel blog you were looking for
Do you live life in layers? So often to me it seems like our lives are layer cakes: Different flavours Different textures Sweet fillings Sometimes icky fillings The occasional nut thrown in that I’m...
View ArticleA Visit to the Gibbon Rehabilitation Project & Bang Pae Waterfall, Phuket
The first sound we heard was their singing: A high, haunting whistle-wail that rose and fell in waves through the jungle canopy. “They sound so much different than the howler monkeys, Mom,” one of the...
View ArticlePhuket Vegetarian Festival: Mae Kao Beach Procession
**WARNING** Descriptions and photos in this post may be disturbing to some. Please preview for young children. We rolled down the windows on the car, as we crept into town, so that we could hear the...
View ArticlePhuket Vegetarian Festival: Mae Kao Beach, Fire Walking (Photo Essay)
I think, in retrospect, what I will remember most is the beat of the drum. Deafening, unrelenting and punctuated with the brassy clang of cymbals. The trembling bodies of entranced men, wrapping snake...
View ArticlePhuket Vegetarian Festival: Procession for Jui Tui Shrine (Photo Essay)
I don’t know if I really have the words to capture this. The following come to mind: Disturbing Nauseating Violent Sad Painful Confusing Loud Cacophonous Overwhelming Very, very foreign This morning...
View ArticleSnorkeling Nai Yang Beach: A Photo Essay
Sometimes, there are perfect days. Today was one: Lunch on the beach A long walk on the sand Sun on my shoulders Shells to collect Bubble crabs to lay on our bellies and watch Clear blue water Today we...
View ArticleMy Life Is Not A Postcard: In Which I Rant & You Learn Some Things You Didn’t...
I have a bee in my bonnet. It’s a community bee, not any one person. Not any one comment, not any one moment, rather the culmination of annoying little buzzings and an occasional little sting. I’m not...
View ArticleCreating Community On The Road
“This is almost as good as Camp Wood!” Ezra announced, with a grin of delight before he snapped his goggles back over his eyes and bombed back into the pool. That’s high praise. Camp Wood is the annual...
View ArticleIsland Adventures: A day out on Phuket
Some days it just feels like you need to “get out” and “have an adventure.” We love the days when we just pile into a car, turn up the music and the completely unexpected finds us on the road. Add in...
View ArticleIt’s All Fun & Games Until Someone Sets a Fishhook Into His Foot
Nothing ruins a perfectly good dinner party quite like blood curdling screaming and thrashing about in the sand. It’s become somewhat of a twice weekly habit, meeting a few of our traveling friends,...
View ArticleRemembrance Day: Lest We Forget
Sitting on the beach looking at a steel grey ocean meeting a gun metal grey sky, thinking about the significance of today… The men and women who’ve served… or cried while others have gone–some never to...
View ArticleSnorkeling Trip, Nai Yang: A Photo Essay
I learned to snorkel in the Sea of Cortez the winter I was eight. My first attempt included becoming terrified of a sting ray, screaming my head off through my snorkel and raking my mother against a...
View ArticleWhat To Do With Kids On A Plane
We sat long on the beach last night, sipping beers with a few traveling friends, while the kids played in the water as it turned from sapphire blue to inky black. One family recently flew to Asia from...
View ArticleTravel With Young Kids Is Not A Waste!
Last night I made beef stroganoff over rice, with a side of lemony snake beans, crusty bread, salad and kiwi for dessert. This was a banner meal for us in Thailand as coming by good quality beef is a...
View ArticleChieow Laan Lake & Khao Sok National Park, Thailand
A jungle night is not quiet. The grey dawn was a rude awakening after a night of laying, late, beneath an ebony sky, drowning in the silver specks that pepper the universe. I wonder what we look like...
View ArticleAmerican Thanksgiving: 22 Things We Are Thankful For
We celebrate Thanksgiving a lot Twice a year, at least, as a bi-national family, but we work to cultivate gratefulness in every day life too. As I finish up this post Hannah is whipping up pumpkin pies...
View ArticleLoi Krathong- Floating Lights Festival, Nai Yang
The krathong were flickering stars on a liquid ebony sky, as if the whole world had been turned upside down and the thunderheads leant rolling waves to the inky sky-scape. People milled up and down on...
View ArticleThailand Top Ten
It’s hard to believe that we’re leaving Thailand in five short days. We arrived almost seven months ago and the time has flown. There are so many things we’ve come to love about this country, from...
View ArticleMonkey Palooza!
We’ve been talking a lot about our monkey experiences this month. The kids have been laughing and retelling a lot of great experiences over our travels. We thought that some of the kids that follow us...
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