Last weekend was an exciting time to be in Hong Kong. We were there to watch the rugby 7’s. But, Sunday was also the day a new leader was chosen. It marked the start of Spring Break for my boys…
Category: travel
montreal
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…
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…