Hello families!
We’ve had a marvelous first day exploring Luang Prabang. Our plans for our first day — to follow the guide book walking tour (i.e. see many temples and other local sites) and visit the Royal Palace Museum — did not pan out BUT that is a good thing! We got side tracked by amazing [...]
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Letter to family from Laos with love
Into Laos… and beyond
Today we are headed to Chiang Khong, Thailand from an overnight stay in Chiang Rai and six previous days in Chiang Mai. Although congested with tourists and traffic Chiang Mai was intriguing, especially seen both inside and outside the city moat from a motorcycle. We are sorry to cut our stay in Chiang Rai so [...]
our way or the thai way
We heard Highway 12, west out of Phitsanulok toward Lom Sok, was a pretty drive along the Lam Nam Khek (river). So we swung by the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) office in Phitsanulok and got ourselves (for free) the handy graphic map of the drive, featuring the places worth stopping. We also got the [...]
farang gothic
After a job well done making a garden bed, we pose for a photo. Farang, remember, means (western) foreigner. Our stay at Good Earth Agriculture was good, and we accomplished quite a bit while there, both on and off the farm.
We learned about growing things in a tropical environment, including the process of composting, [...]
on the road again
Well we’ve left the farm and are now in Khon Kaen, although we’ll be leaving here soon too. The farm stay was great fun and a great education, so far described only in the captions of our flickr photos. In case you haven’t noticed, there are quite a few new photos uploaded. And there [...]
on a farm
Excuse our lack of updates but we’ve been distanced from the Internet connectecd world, first at sea on a boat during a dive trip followed by our first volunteer stay on a farm run by a Canadian man and his Thai wife and their children in the Issan region of Thailand .
We will aim to [...]
of manta and moray
We’re back on dry land, although our bodies haven’t totally figured that out yet. Dive safari over, and quite possibly there will be no more diving on this trip. But what a good safari.
We didn’t see everything. We had no whale sharks, although many on the boat did enjoy one. There weren’t even any white [...]
Certifiable
As I sit and type this post, I look to the left, and other than rIAm at the computer next to me, I see the dive shop. Straight ahead I see the open-air restaurant run by Ban’s Diving Resort, where we are staying. And to the right I see the sun beginning its nightly plunge [...]
