Happy belated Easter to everyone from the jungles of Thailand! We’ve been here for almost a week, catching up on sleep, sun, lots of coconut shakes, Thai massage and Green Curry! 🙂 But the wildlife, the wildlife is blowing us away.  Every time we turn around, nature surprises us.  For example, meet Shway, our new […]

The Gibbon Apes were singing in my dreams the other night.  I could hear their whooping sounds echoing, Thailand’s jungle called as the sun rose in the distance.  The morning heat was already thick, and I pushed back the vegetation with hopes of seeing the Gibbons up in the jungle’s canopy.  They spotted me as […]

Brian and I took the kids to Phi Phi Relax Beach Resort.  I’d heard about this spot over three years ago before our first trip to Thailand. Back then you could reserve a bungalow on the beach for $30!  It’s double now, but still, it’s pretty cheap compared to a hotel room in Maui.  If […]

For those of you who have been following Me Ra and Brian’s Thailand Adventures Part Deux,  you know – like I do – what an amazing (both in good and bad ways)   trip it has been so far. I gotta tell ya, I had been working on a photo tale to share with you […]

“It’s peculiar, to reach your destination,” he told me.  “You think you’ll arrive and perform the thing you came for and depart in contentment.  Instead you get there and find distance still to go.” –So Brave, Young and Handsome by Leif Enger This quote couldn’t sum up the last few weeks of my life any […]

I feel like if you give me a laptop, a cup-o-coffee, and some time alone, I can tell a pretty good story.  Better yet, put me among friends, feed me, and give me the floor and I can PERFORM a good story.   But I am still working on telling the story with my camera. […]