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Shark Dive in the Bahamas

(Roy) Malone Hodges February 11, 2016 Bahamas, Diving 1 Comment

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...

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Five days in Bangkok Makes a Family Humble*

(Roy) Malone Hodges February 8, 2016 Bangkok, Thailand Leave a Comment

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...

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The Pak Ou Caves

(Roy) Malone Hodges January 8, 2016 laos, mekong 1 Comment
  • "Pak Ou Caves" by LaoPDR - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pak_Ou_Caves.JPG#/media/

  The Pak Ou Caves are about 25 kilometers north of Luan Prabang on the Mekong. They have housed Buddhist icons for hundreds of years and continue to be an important place of pilgrimage. I was told that during the late 60s and 70s the royal family, whose capital was Luang...

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Up the Mekong from Luang Prabang and into Thailand

(Roy) Malone Hodges January 8, 2016 laos, Luang Prabang, mekong river, travel Leave a Comment

In the early morning light, the long, dark wooden boat sat low in the Mekong River on the edge of Luang Prabang, Laos waiting for us as we worked our way down to board it. We had booked a two day passage going north up the Mekong to Huay Xai to cross Friendship...

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Diving in the Bahamas

(Roy) Malone Hodges January 3, 2016 Leave a Comment

One of  our goals on this trip was getting the boys PADI open water certified, which we accomplished in the Bahamas. Since then, we have gone diving in Thailand and on the Great Barrier Reef. This is a video compilation of our first few dives in the Bahamas.

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Riding Elephants in Laos.

Bryce Hodges January 3, 2016 adventure, Bryce, elephants, laos Leave a Comment

It was a forty minute drive to the Elephant village outside Luang Prabang, Laos, where we were to ride elephants. When we arrived at the entrance we all got out of the van and unloaded our respective luggage. Deciding not to roll the suitcases on the gravel, we lugged our luggage...

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Luang Prabang, Northern Laos

(Roy) Malone Hodges December 3, 2015 laos, Luang Prabang 1 Comment

After a few days of recovery at “Mike’s house” in Vientiane our family of four was off to our next stop on our around the world adventure. North, to the city of Luang Prabang. We had planned for the city to become our base for four days, we ended up staying...

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Vientiane Laos

(Roy) Malone Hodges December 1, 2015 laos 1 Comment

We arrived in Vientiane after 16 days in China. A few days before our departure from Beijing we decided that our time in Vientiane needed to be more recovery and less exploring. That decision led us to Mike and Xoukiet and their lovely home on the outskirts of Vientiane. I emailed Mike with...

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A Few Days out of the Cities in the Relative Quiet of Guilin and Yangshuo China

(Roy) Malone Hodges November 30, 2015 china 2 Comments

As we move around the world with our kids we have tried to intersperse times in big cities with time in the rural areas of the countries we visit. In the case of China we went from the intensity of Beijing, to the less frenetic city of X’ian and finally after...

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Happy Thanksgiving!

(Roy) Malone Hodges November 26, 2015 Bangkok, Thailand Leave a Comment

Happy Thanksgiving! We headed out from our apartment in Bangkok in search of dinner earlier tonight. I had identified a nice vegetarian/vegan restaurant and based on the map it looked like a 20 minute walk. As is often the case with TripAdvisor, the maps are just plain wrong. We ended up...

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