Today you get a chat from this afternoon: me: how is your teacher? is he ok? Ray: he doesn’t speak a word of english.. well, he does but it doesn’t make sense… the only thing I can really understand is “ugh” and “switch directions” but he is pretty active in making sure we are [...]
Mr. Raymond just left (and made it home in record time, by the way – 15 minutes! Woulda taken me 30-45, I’m sure! And in the dark!), and it was so awesome to have a little mini-date with him! We met after our respective afternoon classes and I had dinner with him and 2 of [...]
We’re mixin it up in Ray and G land! Well we’ve been together nearly 24/7 for 11 countries, 4 billion train and bus rides, and almost 450 days now and – amazingly – we still not only love each other but we actually still LIKE each other. Still, it’s no mean feat to survive this [...]
I cannot contain the excitement, so now seems like a good time for a quick update! BIRTHDAY!!! :D :D :D Trip! Life! FUN!! A lot of people grumble their way through their birthdays or ignore or forget them altogether. I like my birthday. A lot! It’s a great day to celebrate being around. I like [...]
The Potala Palace is AMAZING!!! It had been one of my favorite exotic, seemingly-so-far-away magazine pictures I’d ripped out and taped onto my wall back in Tucson to keep me motivated during our two years’ saving for this trip and it was even better in person than it was in that awesome photo. I’m not [...]
