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Recent Entries in Travelogue

Audubon Zoo Desktop Wallpaper

Over the holidays Arin, Harper and I visited my family in New Orleans. While we were there we visited one of my favorite Zoos: the Audubon Zoo. The Swamp exhibit is especially impressive as it allows visitors to get exceptionally...
"A Place of Refuge"
In Hawai'i

My wife, son and I are taking our first non-holiday related vacation in over 1.5 years. Right now we are in Kona. Tomorrow night we will be partying with friends and family of Jay and Jennifer to celebrate their wedding....
Seattle: A city I could live in.

There are few cities I have visited where I leave feeling, "now this is a city I could live in." There are even fewer that have captured the appreciation of my wife and I such that we routinely return to...
Where I have been in the world
Back from Shaver Lake

The planners of NaBloPoMo did not exercise very much fore-thought when picking their month - I mean if most people are indeed lucky, they will be nowhere near an Internet connection over the Thanksgiving weekend - as I was for...
If I had it all over to do again...

I got in touch with an old friend of mine recently from elementary school. It didn't take long to discover that she is planning a two week trip to Thailand, and it immediately got me thinking about what I might...
Photos from Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam

It has been over two weeks since my return from Southeast Asia, and it has taken quite some time to wade through the hundreds of photographs taken during our 6 week trip. I believe there are over 1000 photographs, but...
Welcome Back to the World

You would think that returning home after being away for six weeks would be a relief in some way, that it would be relaxing. Quite the contrary. There is a stack of mail a mile high, the lawn is about...
Blink of an Eye

It is hard to believe that seven days from now Arin and I will be home. It sounds so cliche, but it really does seem like yesterday when Arin and I were sitting on the deck of Zazen Bungalows in...
Mo-ah Een-ten-city

It has been days without proper internet access, which isn't such a bad thing. I find myself now in Hoi An, Vietnam, in the post office's Internet room surrounded by 20 or so thirteen year old girls chatting with each...
News from Cambodia

Arin and i have been in Siem Reap, Cambodia for two days now. It is an intense country. The heat of this country is extraordinary, and is easily the most intense I have ever felt in my life. The average...
Nathong National Park, Kao-sip-kao, and monkeys!

This entry is being done a little out of sequence, as Arin and I have been so busy that time enough at an Internet Cafe to blog is rare. But it just started raining, as it does about once a...
Most Disappointing Day Trip... Evah

Yesterday Arin and I embarked on what would be a 14 hour day trip to the Kachanaburi Province outside of Bangkok to go see the Death Railway bridge, made famous (to most Americans) by the movie Bridge Over the...
Moments from Thailand

It feels like an eternity since the last chance I had to post an update. But Bangkok has been one of the most exhausting cities I have ever visited. As I have told so many people - I get exhausted...
Snorkeling at Ko Tao

On a whim, Arin and I decided to join an adventure tour group to go on a snorkeling trip to island called Ko Tao. We joined our would be shipmates at a dock not far from The Big Buddha, and...
Better than most long distance calling plans

I feel if I don't document all that Arin and I have done in the last two days, I never will because Arin and I seem to filling every moment with one worth documenting and at some point I won't...
Greetings from the future...

Where to begin? Where to begin. After a seemingly endless string of flights. We left at 1:30pm on Saturday from SFO. We chased the sun all the way to Tokyo (for 10 hours), then after a 3 hour layover in...
Sad Endings, New Beginnings

For almost six years, since I returned from an amazing backpacking trip to Europe that I took after graduating college, I have talked a good game of throwing caution to the wind, quitting my job, leaving things behind, and going...

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Recent Entries in Travelogue

Audubon Zoo Desktop Wallpaper

Over the holidays Arin, Harper and I visited my family in New Orleans. While we were there we visited one of my favorite Zoos: the Audubon Zoo. The Swamp exhibit is especially impressive as it allows visitors to get exceptionally...

"A Place of Refuge"

In Hawai'i

My wife, son and I are taking our first non-holiday related vacation in over 1.5 years. Right now we are in Kona. Tomorrow night we will be partying with friends and family of Jay and Jennifer to celebrate their wedding....

Seattle: A city I could live in.

There are few cities I have visited where I leave feeling, "now this is a city I could live in." There are even fewer that have captured the appreciation of my wife and I such that we routinely return to...

Where I have been in the world

Back from Shaver Lake

The planners of NaBloPoMo did not exercise very much fore-thought when picking their month - I mean if most people are indeed lucky, they will be nowhere near an Internet connection over the Thanksgiving weekend - as I was for...

If I had it all over to do again...

I got in touch with an old friend of mine recently from elementary school. It didn't take long to discover that she is planning a two week trip to Thailand, and it immediately got me thinking about what I might...

Photos from Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam

It has been over two weeks since my return from Southeast Asia, and it has taken quite some time to wade through the hundreds of photographs taken during our 6 week trip. I believe there are over 1000 photographs, but...

Welcome Back to the World

You would think that returning home after being away for six weeks would be a relief in some way, that it would be relaxing. Quite the contrary. There is a stack of mail a mile high, the lawn is about...

Blink of an Eye

It is hard to believe that seven days from now Arin and I will be home. It sounds so cliche, but it really does seem like yesterday when Arin and I were sitting on the deck of Zazen Bungalows in...

Mo-ah Een-ten-city

It has been days without proper internet access, which isn't such a bad thing. I find myself now in Hoi An, Vietnam, in the post office's Internet room surrounded by 20 or so thirteen year old girls chatting with each...

News from Cambodia

Arin and i have been in Siem Reap, Cambodia for two days now. It is an intense country. The heat of this country is extraordinary, and is easily the most intense I have ever felt in my life. The average...

Nathong National Park, Kao-sip-kao, and monkeys!

This entry is being done a little out of sequence, as Arin and I have been so busy that time enough at an Internet Cafe to blog is rare. But it just started raining, as it does about once a...

Most Disappointing Day Trip... Evah

Yesterday Arin and I embarked on what would be a 14 hour day trip to the Kachanaburi Province outside of Bangkok to go see the Death Railway bridge, made famous (to most Americans) by the movie Bridge Over the...

Moments from Thailand

It feels like an eternity since the last chance I had to post an update. But Bangkok has been one of the most exhausting cities I have ever visited. As I have told so many people - I get exhausted...

Snorkeling at Ko Tao

On a whim, Arin and I decided to join an adventure tour group to go on a snorkeling trip to island called Ko Tao. We joined our would be shipmates at a dock not far from The Big Buddha, and...

Better than most long distance calling plans

I feel if I don't document all that Arin and I have done in the last two days, I never will because Arin and I seem to filling every moment with one worth documenting and at some point I won't...

Greetings from the future...

Where to begin? Where to begin. After a seemingly endless string of flights. We left at 1:30pm on Saturday from SFO. We chased the sun all the way to Tokyo (for 10 hours), then after a 3 hour layover in...

Sad Endings, New Beginnings

For almost six years, since I returned from an amazing backpacking trip to Europe that I took after graduating college, I have talked a good game of throwing caution to the wind, quitting my job, leaving things behind, and going...