Okay, SERIOUSLY, after having a stream of awesome people come our way I just had to write a little sumtin sumtin. We met another awesome couple this week, and like most meetings it ‘just happened’. G was out trying to recruit her ‘beach dog’  and was throwing sticks around when a conversation was started up [...]

I have a confession to make. So we’re on this trip and yeah we do a lot of cool stuff and we’re livin large with our oceanfront beach hut at the moment. It’s the stuff of a classy millionaire’s dreams. But there’s a flip side to it. We’re not millionaires (or classy). Ray and I [...]

1) You had no idea what a Jeepney was. 2) You had no idea there were 10 different remakes of Mariah Carey’s Hero. 3) You’ve never been woken up at 2am by beach Karaoke. 4) You never knew “Malling” was a verb. 5) You never knew that a sunny-side-up egg was considered a condiment. 6) [...]

I am on a mission. I don’t know, after hours of online researching and planning and attempts at reserving, if this will be a completed mission, but regardless I know it’s going to be one SERIOUSLY fun one to try. I have in my head this PERFECT bamboo or otherwise-native wood and thatch or grass [...]

POLKA-DOTTED SHARKS!!! Don’t TELL me God doesn’t have a sense of humor (or some serious drugs). They are absolutely awesome and even more incredible in person than I’d imagined – and I’ve been looking forward to this for YEARS!!! I’ll never forget the first moment I jumped in the water, mask and snorkel on, and [...]