Agh, it MUST be spring! Itineraries gone wild!! My itinerary seems to be out cavorting on a journey of its own, independent of what I’ve authorized it to be doing. No wonder it’s a task I’ve been dreading doing, to sit down and try to grab it by the horns again, sit it down and [...]

I enjoy giving my mom the occasional coronary. Mom’s reaction to my new tiger picture: me: ps did you see the blog update? have you entered your email address to get email notifications? michelle: scuse me but i just learned how to text!!! I need to do more??! Now i know how that kid felt [...]

This is about how the pace of life has been the past couple of months. Greetings from beautiful Thailand, all! This post will serve as an official notice that we are hereby vacating all hopes and delusions of being able to keep this up as a chronological journey. Or of always being brilliantly-written, well thought-out [...]

Today’s Ray’s birthday! If you’d like to send him a picture message please feel free to send it my way and I’ll be sure to get it to him. :D We’re here in Phuket to celebrate his bday! By request: beach and sipping pina coladas today and then a 4-day live-aboard birthday scuba diving trip [...]