It’s hard to believe that we have left the farm, said goodbye to all the amazing people – friends – and are now working our way northward. We came to the farm for a two week stay; we didn’t leave for over 3 weeks (and not until after we made our friend who was visiting [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Asia’
Kap kun kaah south east Asia, namaste India
Today marks our last day in south east Asia, in Bangkok, Thailand specifically, where we’ve been the last two weeks sorting out our visa and travel arrangements to go to India.
I think I speak for both me and jft when I say we are feeling a little morose about leaving south east Asia behind. We’ve [...]
“No business, no rice.”
I’ve known for many, many years — probably since I was a child — that rice is a staple of the Asian diet. It was just like that, a simple, bare and almost uninteresting fact, rice is a staple of the Asian diet. However, since jft and I have immersed ourselves in Asian culture and [...]
a photo update
OK, so I was thinking I’d be making some more posts from Bangkok about our adventures through Southeast Asia. I’ve got a post started that’s a follow-up to “this is normal,” and I’ve even got notes for a post about Mexican food in Chicago (some travelers we met are headed that way, so that got [...]
back in bangkok
So we’re back in Bangkok, Thailand, after nearly 3 months around Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. It’s hard to believe that we’ve been on the road four months already. We’ll be here for a bit so we can finally check out the big city, as well as a few surrounding places like the Bridge Over [...]
WHY?
I managed to stub my toe yesterday, slamming with quite good precision by green-Croc-clad left foot into a rock I missed seeing. jft and I were touring the My Son ancient brick tower remanants of the Chams, an ethnic group who once held sway over many parts of southeast Asia, even ransacking Angkor and the [...]
this is normal
While traversing South East Asia we have found ourselves amongst people who live their lives rather differently than we’re used to. And some things that are regular things for us while traveling – often things that don’t seem noteworthy – we realize are different than life back home.
For example, while living in Chicago we rarely [...]
