While in Mae Sot, we decided to go out for pizza. It was about a 15 minute walk through back roads. These are the most fun as you are able to witness daily or in this case nightly life. The feature...
While in Mae Sot, we decided to go out for pizza. It was about a 15 minute walk through back roads. These are the most fun as you are able to witness daily or in this case nightly life. The feature...
This is an emergency post!! My father, Stewart Boone, 95, fell and broke his femur while making his bed. This happened on Thursday morning while I was sleeping in Phitsanulok, Thailand on my Thursday...
Today is a long awaited and carefully planned day. Ever since I was in college, I have sponsored a child through Compassion. I have lost track of these children once they graduated, but they have...
When Amy was still here, we went to eat pizza alongside the busy street to people watch. A mute woman approached us with a pad in her hand indicating that she was selling keychains and cell phone...
Amy left on a midnight flight. She offered to take some things home to Cincinnati that we don’t need. Well, I have been gingerly carrying this nonla, or Vietnamese conical hat, for about three...
Elle is very sensitive to air pollution, and Bangkok registers high on the pollution scale. She has an interesting app that reports air quality called AirVisual. Anyway, she has been coughing despite...
Today we have scheduled a private tour to visit a railway market AND a floating market. We got to sleep late and have a leisurely breakfast together. Our guide, Thai, arrived in the afternoon and was...
In learning about full moons, I came across a Farmer’s Almanac article that gave Native American names for each full moon. These were very interesting names. I wondered how these moons got...
We had bought some quail eggs and were trying to use them up. We often make egg in bread but in this case two eggs were used. We are trying to eat as much Thai food as possible so we took a taxi to...
Our family, of which William now belongs, always brings the birthday boy or girl breakfast in bed. William said that he would rather eat on the balcony. Done!! Breakfast consisted of eggs over easy...
Today we will attend a much anticipated Thai cooking class. Rob selected a class where each couple will prepare three dishes. We choose from 180 recipes complete with pictures. Our taxi picked us up...
The goal for our trip with our family is rest and relaxation. Each of our children work very hard in very demanding jobs. Here they could not be physically further from their jobs as it is literally...
We took a 20-minute taxi to Koh Samui International Church Friend of God. I chose this church because it was in English, and the pastor had great reviews. When one arrives, it always takes our...
Amy and I went to the airport to retrieve the next family members, William and Elle Correll. They were arriving at 4:30am. Amy and I are Priority Pass members so we could get our jetlaggers who had a...
Julie was feeling pretty good but needed a good night’s sleep because we had big plans for Julie’s one day in Bangkok. We didn’t want to tire her out. We started the day with a...
We checked out of our hotel but left our luggage in the store room so that we could see a few more things in Bangkok. We went to the old city to see The Grand Palace. Within the Palace complex the...
Happy New Year! There will be plenty plenty (of things to do) in 2020! My friend, Janel Hunt, challenged me years ago to pick a word that will be a theme or motto for the year. Last year was Change...
Today we went to two museums and a cemetery concerning the people who worked on the Bridge on the River Kwai. Here are transport carts that were pulled by water buffalo and used until WWII. Actually...
We were up early to pack our things because we are going to take a short trip out to March over The Bridge on the River Kwai. The movie by the same name won best picture in 1957. We went down to...
Today we went to the Evangelical Church of Bangkok. The walk was fifteen minutes which is good because we walked a lot yesterday and our feet were sore. This week our church service will be in...
Today we went out to explore the city of Bangkok. Some of our family will join us in less than a week, and we wanted to learn how to use public transportation. We took the Skytrain which is an...
We are surprised at all the visible trash that we see everyday. It makes me think about trash every moment. In the USA we take our trash away so it isn’t constantly on our minds. Not so here...
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MERRY CHRISTMAS! Isn’t it just like Jesus to have us give gifts to each other on HIS birthday? I’ve never been to a birthday party like that…show up and the birthday boy has already...
My family has a tradition that has continued from before I was born for about 75 years. Each Christmas Eve whoever has gathered together for the holiday acts out the Nativity also known as the birth...
We are in our final days in Laos and we have a few more things on our to do list. We attended a Lao traditional story telling. We were introduced to a fascinating instrument called a khaen. A Laotian...
One of the English teachers, Pom, is a Christian and she invited us to her Christmas celebration. It began on Friday night, lasted all day Saturday, and culminated on Sunday. I have never heard of...
Today we reconnected with Saylom, our guide when we first arrived in Laos. We visited his beautiful house in the city. All of his neighbors are his relatives. Here is a view of Phou Si from his house...
My knees have been cracking a lot and I am trying to stretch them out every day. However, I ordered a leg massage, and she came to my room. She found sore muscles that I didn’t even know were...
Our feature picture was taken by Rob when he was descending Mount Phousi. This is a view above the numerous tents set up for the night market. We are on a roll teaching English. It has been really...
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