Well, we’re three days away from departure and as usual will leave with mixed emotions. On the one hand, we can hardly wait for the warmth of hearth and home, family and friends over the holidays; on the other, we will feel a pleasant kind melancholy as the jets begin to whine. This has been […]
Ira and I were in Khon Kaen on T’giving and dined with a couple of our friends and fellow Americans who teach at our old school. We ate well and counted all our blessings — at the top of that list is our wonderful family. Except for the airport closures in Bangkok which caused us […]
Ira and I are fine but we are now stuck in Laos. We couldn’t get any flights out of Thailand for weeks and the flights from Khon Kaen only go to Bangkok anyway which is obviously no good. So, we came back up to Vientiane by bus to try to get to Vietnam. The flights […]