What's over there?
CHIAPAS, MEXICO – For an amateur photographer, the mountain town of San Cristobal de las Casas offers plenty of opportunities to capture interesting images. From its colonial architecture, narrow cobbled streets and sweeping views to its lively crafts market, towering cathedrals and indigenous farmers offering their harvest at the farmers market. At nearly every turn, I found myself focusing my lens on yet another colorful scene.
Continue reading ““Pay me or I’ll call the cops””
DANANG, VIETNAM – During the entire seven months Melanie and I lived in Hanoi I don’t think we were ever seriously at risk for getting a sunburn.
Most days in Hanoi the sky was sort of a dull gray. Sometimes we were pretty sure the sun must be lurking up there somewhere, and occasionally the sky might have a slightly bluish tint or a few fluffy clouds, but mainly it was just a dingy gray.
But things are a little different now that we’ve moved to Danang. Let me explain…
Continue reading “Look, up in the sky… It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s… the sun?”
HANOI, VIETNAM – June 15th marks one year since leaving the farm property we called home for 26 years and setting out to travel the world with all our worldly possessions packed into four suitcases.
Where have we been and what have we done over the last 12 months?
Continue reading “12 months, 10 countries, 27,000 miles, two happy travelers!”
HANOI, VIETNAM – Melanie and I finally did it… After living in Hanoi for five months we finally signed up for a Vietnamese language course – 10 lessons over five weeks (15 hours of class time).
Continue reading “Learn to speak Vietnamese – Mot, Hai, Ba!”
HANOI, VIETNAM – Sidewalks in Hanoi serve many different purposes… merchandise display space for shop stalls, seating for sidewalk restaurants, parking lot for motorcycles and bicycles (and sometimes cars), work room, kitchen, grazing space for urban livestock, and occasionally as a place for pedestrians to walk.
Continue reading “Sidewalks are for walking, right? Not in Hanoi…”