On the way on our semi-annual commute to and from Thailand, we are now spending three weeks traveling from Hokkaido, Japan to Tokyo, staying at many onsen resorts along the way, traveling by train. I will try to keep updating this travel journal while waiting for trains. Our flight from Portland to San Francisco departed…

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…

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…

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…

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).