Our best vacation ever was Chiang Rai, Thailand, the same province where the young soccer players and coach were trapped and triumphantly rescued from the cave. Like others around the world, I watched the news reports anxiously and cried…
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I’m a little late, but Chúc mừng năm mới and Xīnnián kuàile! Or, Happy New Year! (in Vietnamese and Chinese). It’s the Year of the Dog! We have always tried to incorporate the boys’ homeland culture and traditions as much…
Reprinted from We Said Go Travel. Six years ago today, the day after Thanksgiving, my husband, Nick, and I boarded a plane with a one-way ticket to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. I still remember my Facebook post from that…
My first overseas experience – studying abroad in Omiya, Japan – was a life changing experience. Although my family had traveled extensively in the U.S. and Canada before that trip, I’d never traveled alone and never been in a…
My husband and I traveled and lived all over the world before having kids, so we’re raising junior journeymen. It’s in our souls, and has kept our marriage interesting, challenging and wanting more. So, we want to pass that…
I never thought I would use basketball skills in a Chinese hospital, but here’s how that happened. We were in Fuzhou, China, a small-by-Chinese-standards city of about 7 million people, on the Tawain Strait – the sliver of ocean…
I was in the southernmost part of Vietnam; the Ca Mau peninsula, a remote area surrounded by the South China Sea and Gulf of Thailand. The tropical landscape was rich with tamarind and mango trees and mangroves, rice paddies…
Sorry for the lack of posts, but we have had our hands pretty full. Alex had a low grade fever since we got him last Sunday night. The fever got much worse on Thursday night and he started vomiting…
More adventures with Alex! He’s now been with us for three full days, and he is a good, good boy. The toughest part is communicating with him since he can’t speak, but he is gradually learning his new name…
This weekend we ventured off to Western China, the gateway to Tibet, for an adventure in Chengdu, known for its panda reserves and research centers. It’s in the Sichuan province, which you may know from its fame as a…