It’s another gorgeous day here today. Warm sunshine, shiny green leaves, and a playful breeze. I’m finally comfortable in a tee shirt and linen pants, but most Lao are wearing …
Luang Prabang
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People have been telling me ever since we arrived that it does cool down here for a couple of months each year. Before the last couple of days, however, I …
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Mike and I went on an elephant mahout training course yesterday. Yes, seriously. Here’s how it happened. Last week we came back two days early from our time in Cambodia …
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This story starts in May. In May, Mike was in Laos in the middle of his first seven weeks at his new job. I was in LA wrapping up my …
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Last week our neighbor’s computer was stolen. His front door is less than ten steps from ours – his house is a mirror image of ours – and when he …
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It’s Tuesday morning at 7:20am. I’m sitting in a dark kitchen with the door wide open behind me, because there’s no electricity. There hasn’t been any since 1:15am when it …