Author: melmalinowski
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Australia 2025
It’s time to head back to the USA for the summer. We’re now beginning to (post-Covid) stop somewhere along the way in each direction to explore. Our first exploration will be Tasmania, Melbourne and Sydney for a month. As I previously posted a detailed trip report for my 2017 hiking in Tasmania, I won’t repeat…
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Transcontinental Road Trip 2024
On April 2, 2024, Pin and I embarked on a seven week long road trip circling the USA from south to north, covering over 9,000 miles. I wouldn’t attempt this without the assistance of Tesla’s Full Self Driving beta software. It makes the long freeway stretches relaxing and more fun. I’ll try to enter installments…
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Building a home in Thailand November 2019
As a previous post explained, four years after the death of my wife Judy from cancer, I remarried. When you marry a Thai woman, as I did, you also marry her whole extended family. It is not uncommon for farang (foreigners) to not know this, and it leads to many eventual divorces. I had spent…
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Getting married, June 15, 2019
Two years ago, I met a beautiful woman in my travels abroad. I had not planned on marrying again, and was not dating anyone, anywhere. She changed my mind about that. After a wait of nearly a year to get USA permission, she accompanied me to the USA, and on June 15, 2019 we were…
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Vietnam March 2019
In the Spring of 2019, Pin and I began her journey to the United States (to marry me) by touring Vietnam from south to north (after our Singapore February visit).