I’ve got to take a jungle segway here and start our Running on Empty Contest for the May Discovery Workshop in San Francisco! Remember…the Discovery Workshop in San Francisco! 🙂 We’ve been so occupied with life in Thailand that we haven’t mentioned it much on the blog, but ladies, the dates are coming!! The countdown […]

Once we were done with our passports, feeling safe and sound, we moved on to start our Homestay. Why did we do a Homestay? Why engage in Ecotourism? Brian and I wanted our kids to experience Thailand on a handful of levels that were beyond a “vacation”. We chose to stay in one place for […]

We’ve been offline for the last few days because we’ve been out of internet range on a CRAZY and somewhat SCARY adventure! This week’s adventure was instigated by the need to do a VISA run. What do I mean by a VISA run? When we came to Thailand, we were all given a 30 day […]

Can you believe we’ve been here almost 30 days?! It doesn’t seem possible that four weeks have already come and gone. If the trip ended today, we would go home with so many life long lessons and memories. It’s been wonderful to stay in one place for this long. I feel like we’ve begun to […]

Since Safeway isn’t down the street, and we are in a somewhat remote area, we’ve got three options for eating; 1. We can eat out! But as we all know, that gets old after awhile–even when it’s only $2 a plate. 🙂 2. We can have a local woman go to the open market for […]

After a twelve hour day filled with dives, swimming with more sea turtles, chapter quizzes and a final exam…It’s OFFICIAL! Brian and I are now PADI Certified Open Water SCUBA DIVERS!! Hooray!!! I’ve got a handful of more stories to share, but I’ll have to post more later. I think the anxiety over the test […]