We never intended to stay in Santa Cruz, California long before pushing on, back to our travel life. We’re just making a fuel stop, we told ourselves and anyone who asked. We needed one or two years to put money back in the bank, take a break from homeschooling our kids, and rest from our oftentimes seat-of-the-pants style of travel. We needed to hunker down and plan for longer, slower, more purposeful travels. That was the intention, anyway.
The Unexpected Pleasures of Small Town France
When Pierre sent me the list of places he had found for us to stay in southern France for the next leg of our nomadic journey, I looked them up and laughed. Many of them were spacious and quite nice, but they were all in tiny villages seemingly in the middle of nowhere! [Read more…]
I Was a Guest at Bangkok’s Bumrungrad Hotel, I Mean Hospital
That’s right, I was a patient at this internationally famous private hospital, located in Bangkok, Thailand, but arriving there, I felt much more like its hotel guest. [Read more…]
Hitting Your Head and Other Travel Catastrophes
About two days ago on the tiny island of Gili Air in Indonesia, I walked down a set of concrete steps that led from our beach bungalow’s restaurant to the ocean and slipped–flying into the air, cartoon-style, and slamming into the edge of a step with the back of my head. POW! [Read more…]
Singapore: Being in a First World Country Again Is… Refreshing!
Ah… being in a first world country again (in this case, Singapore) after almost eight months in third world (developing) countries has been surprisingly refreshing! [Read more…]
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