Poklongarai Temple.

This post was originally published on 28 Jan, 2023, and moved here, to my new blog. The Poklongarai towers were built for, well, yes, King Poklongarai. They were built during his lifetime, in the late 13th and early 14th centuries. He was a pretty popular king to the Cham people, and was revered for being […]

Chuc Mung Nam Moi

This post was originally published on 25 Jan, 2023, and moved here, to my new blog. Or, Happy New Year! Tam and I were really excited about the Tet holiday this year. It is the Vietnamese new year, based on the Chinese lunar new year. We were too busy and tired this year at home, […]

Landscapes

This post was originally published on 22 Jan, 2023, and moved here, to my new blog. We found this great little stretch of coastline. It has the greatest rock formations, and some of my favorite landscapes, where the arid desert meets the blue ocean. There is something that feels so impossible about such a parched […]

Kiting, Finally!

This post was originally published on 20 Jan, 2023, and moved here to my new blog. On arrival we (probably more me) were horrified to find that there was no wind in the forecast for the first four days we were here. I was going a little crazy for that four days. Then the wind […]

My Hoa Lagoon.

This post was originally published on 17 Jan, 2023, and moved here to my new blog. The other night, walking back from a restaurant down the lagoon, we thought there was fog rising off the water creating this very strange effect. It was not. The water was so calm that it was the reflection of […]

goats!

I expect a few people have heard from Tam about the goat-walking job that I want to do on Aitutaki in the Cook Islands. It turns out that there are tons of goats here in My Hoa, where we are staying. I took this as an opportunity to start practicing for my new career in […]

Epiphanies and motorbikes.

This post was originally published on 14 Jan, 2023, and moved here to my new blog. We think we can know ourselves, and predict our realizations and epiphanies based on the stories we create and tell ourselves. We can not. We come to realization on realization’s time, and no sooner. We can’t predict the when […]

Coffee and no jet lag.

This post was originally published on 11 Jan, 2023, and moved here to my new blog. Ahhhhh, first morning. Just got a few hours of sleep after 48 hours of flights. Here we are, at Phi’s Kite School in My Hoa, Vietnam. The sunrise view from our new place. And of course, coffee. The only […]

Going, Going, Gone Baby Gone…

This post was originally published on 11 Jan, 2023, and moved here to my new blog. We did it!None of this feels real in any way at this point. For the last few months, I have been saying (mostly to appease my own anxiety) that I wouldn’t feel any sense of realizing the results of […]