On March 3, I will turn 50! I remember when that was old! I am celebrating this milestone with a two-week visit to Canada. Five dear friends organized to meet me in Montreal for what we are billing as the…
Category: travel
happy new year
Laos proved a little more laid back than John could handle, so we cut short our visit by two days and headed to Phnom Penh. This is where we spent a very bizarre last day of 2011. It has been…
sa ba di (hello in lao)
We began our Christmas holiday adventure with 48 hours in Hanoi and we all almost instantly fell under the spell of this city… As if by magic, you don’t want to do anything, except maybe drink cocktails and drift off…
uzbekistan (october 9, 2011)
After school last Friday we jumped on a plane and headed off to deepest darkest Uzbekistan, expecting an off the beaten track adventure. While it may be off the North American track, the first part of our trip was in…
korea (may 6, 2011)
This past Monday was May Day or Worker’s Day. Which, not surprisingly, in a Communist country, is a day off. What was surprising was discovering that this holiday is in commemoration of the 1886 Haymarket Massacre in Chicago, when police…
great wall and hong kong 7’s (march 28, 2011)
The boys went back to school today after a week off for Spring Break. I suspect they are looking forward to the rest, as the last 10 days have been very busy!! We had our first house guests come from…
