Sometimes it can become overwhelming when you hear about the evil, suffering, and pain in the world. It’s particularly hard when it hits close to home—when it hits someone you know. An online blogging...

We had a beautiful Christmas Day in Ho Chi Minh City. We were staying at the home of our friends from Saigon Street Eats, and shared the morning with them and their 4 year...

Saigon is a concrete jungle. Lots of motorbikes, traffic, and buildings. It is also very, very hot. In order to break up our 2 week stay in the city, we found ourselves doing a...

We spent two weeks in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly known as Saigon), Vietnam for Christmas and New Year’s. It is a very busy city, and with the heat we weren’t sure what to...

If you do a quick search on Chiang Rai’s famous Wat, you’ll read words like “contemporary,” “creepy,” “unconventional,” and “strange" to describe it. Wat Rong Khun, or The White Temple, as it is locally...

Like other countries we have visited, Thailand celebrates “Children’s Day”(how did the US miss this holiday?!). We wanted to do something fun for the kids, so we looked up activities online and discovered some...

After settling into a bit of routine on our extended stay in Chiang Mai, we decided to explore some of the outskirts of the city. First off…we located a marking on our map that...

There, I said it. In the past 1 1/2 years that I have been sharing this blog with the great-wide-world beyond my family and friends, I have hesitated to to share this. Why would...

Our first day in Chiang Rai consisted of surprise adventures with our homestay hosts, and the next day where we were able to jump in and get muddy in a rice field in Thailand...

Since we set off on first our "expat” life, and later our “traveling family” journey, we have consistently run into the same question over and over. “What about your kid’s educations?” When we lived...