But What About Purpose?

I have spent quite a lot of my time recently, in the last year or so, thinking about purpose. I have (many) people in my life that insist I will go crazy in retirement, and come running home to jump back into the rat race. All for the reason that our lives will lack the drive […]

Two Princesses

We rescued a dog. This was back in June (or July, I can’t remember). She was found starving to death with her two siblings on a remote island when a group of kiters from our place found them. It took a couple of days to get back to them, but when we did two of […]

Its Not All Facebook And Rainbows… It’s real life.

Tam and I have had several conversations recently with other travelers. Mostly, these are Europeans, and one American: but in all cases long-term travelers spending three months to a year abroad. The one similar thing that we have all experienced are the misconceptions many of our friends and family back at home have about our […]

It’s Thailand, Not Adventure

We woke up to a rare rainy day this morning in Hua Hin, Thailand. This is the third day we have had rain since we left home in January, and it is welcome. It has been regularly in the nineties and low hundreds every day for the last two months, so a cool rainy day […]

The Difficulty Of Presence.

This post was originally published on 11 April, 2023, and moved here, to my new blog. The hardest thing I fail to accomplish every day is not kindness, love, or compassion (though at times, those can be an ongoing practice as well), but the practice of presence. I struggle with being truly present. I catch myself on my […]

The Things You Find On The Beach In Vietnam

This post was originally published on 16 Feb, 2023, and moved here, to my new blog. I wanted to do a post on here about the strange and beautiful things I find every morning on my walk on the beach. I found pretty shells, and… … more pretty shells, and… … this cute little orange, and […]

Tam.

This post was originally published on 29 Jan, 2023, and moved here, to my new blog I can’t even begin to tell you how grateful I am to this girl. She is the best part of the best parts of humanity, and the best part of my waking up every day (well, along with coffee). […]

Little Plastic Chairs And Fear.

This post was originally published on 28 Jan, 2023, and moved here, to my new blog. Tam and I have been at this for years. We have worked hard for the twenty-five years we have been together, and really put our energy into this retirement plan for the last five of those. We did the […]

Vietnamese Emergency Rooms.

This post was originally published on 28 Jan, 2023, and moved here, to my new blog. We had the distinct pleasure of visiting a couple of emergency rooms here in Vietnam on Wednesday. It was a bit of a scary story, and at this time, everything is okay. I walked into a bathroom at the […]

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 […]