Author: melmalinowski
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Eastern Europe 2025
On September 3rd, 2025 we head back to Thailand via six weeks in Eastern Europe. PDX-DEN-FRA-IST flights. Start in Istanbul, then Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, and Hungary, before flying back to Bangkok from Munich nonstop. We begin in Istanbul, then fly to Bulgaria, and travel by car for a week. Then fly to Romania, and travel…
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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…