So far on our trip Laos was the most unexpected. We added it to our list intentionally as it was the least traveled of the countries we considered and the one about which we knew the least. It also has a long and admittedly painful relationship with the United States. We...
Video of Our Time in China
China was an amazing experience, as I have written before. In addition to shooting quite a few photos I shot video on our Sony SLR camera. Thanks to the work of Guillem Mateo, an amazing video editor based in Barcelona, my footage yielded this short video of our time there.
Shark Dive in the Bahamas
Back in August we did a dive specifically with sharks among the many dives we did where we ran across sharks and other creatures. In the shark dive they gather you on the bottom and then a diver, clad in a chain mail suit, descends with a box of snacks for...
Five days in Bangkok Makes a Family Humble*
We went from the jungles of Laos and northern Thailand to the big city experience of Bangkok. From one lane dirt tracks to eight or ten lanes of traffic with hundreds, if not thousands, of scooters. We also went from small guest houses where we were often bunking in the same...