It’s amazing the advances in modern life that you miss living overseas for the better part of five years. While I was learning to live more simply, and climb trees for coconuts, the developed world was giving society every gizmo and gadget to make life as convenient (and cluttered) as possible. Returning back to America after 5 years introduced me to the fad of Apple Watches and Fitbits. Apparently moving from the front door to the car never happened unless you have a device on your wrist counting each step. Nearly every phone is adorned with a pop-out circular handle
Fletch and I celebrated our two year anniversary this past weekend. Two years already! I am as enamored with him as ever and can’t believe how lucky I am to have found such an amazing man who takes me on wild adventures. When he asked me what I wanted for our anniversary, I told him a cat. That may sound a little odd seeing as we’re only staying here temporarily. Who would adopt an animal and then say goodbye to it right away? There is a wonderful lady here who started taking in all the stray cats and now she runs
“Grand Bleu.” That’s what the sign said above the empty space in the building next to The Taj. It was a very attractive sign too, bold white letters over a blue background, reminiscent of water. It appeared over a month ago and we all wondered what it was going to be. I crossed my fingers that it wasn’t going to be another Chinese souvenir shop full of trinkets. A few weeks later the words 'New York Kitchen Bar' found their place on the sign. The prospect of a new restaurant was a welcome one. Even if the food was as average as
Palau is paradise, “the rainbow’s end” as many call it. The scenery is breathtaking, the diving is world-class, the people are hospitable, and the lifestyle is laid back. No place is perfect though, and this blog would get boring very quickly if everything was as wonderful as unicorns that poop rainbows. So I’m going to take a moment to discuss the sad food situation here. Let’s talk produce. It’s pretty much nonexistent here. There are three grocery stores and the produce sections of all three looked like this the first few weeks after we arrived here. They are slightly better stocked
This is my 100th post everyone! Thanks to all of my readers who have kept me blogging this far. I was going to plan a special post but I'm already so behind that that's not going to happen. Sunday As cool as Montis Resort was, the breakfast buffet was surprisingly disappointing. So we left halfway through and made our way back to Chiang Mai. We returned the bikes without any fees for scratches (I had tipped mine over in a parking lot after it was stopped and had been dreading how many zeros would be on the fine). Maybe that's just a