We feel as if we're there! Court,
Once again, your way with words makes us feel as if we were there with you! Thanks for all the effort it must take to keep us connected. Check your email when you have a chance--
Love you,
Cam and Donna
:) HI again!!! Yet another wonderful entry...That waterfall looks amazing!!! we do need more pictures of you though courtney!!! Also, the vegetarian buffet sounds amazing and for only 50 cents! uh- the splendor! The buddha cave sounds awesome and also a tid bit creepy...why were the buddhas discarded? hmmm. I miss you both and now Im off to pay $70 for my polio booster...what a rip off! Hey- I forgot to tell you I was offered a job as a campaign manager for a local election and I had to turn it down cuz it was for a republican! hahaha Funny stuff.. Im going to be a waitress now. miss you both
YAY awesome courtney....Ugh that sounds sooo nice. kayaking and tubing and the bungalow is gorgeous! I am here trying to get my medical kit done. It would be a lot less stressful is doctors and dentists actually showed up and had more than 5 minutes to talk to you. haha Howd you two do it? lol I'm almost done. I was definately nominated for SubSaharan Africa, to do health extension and leave in June...nothing I can do about it (I tried) so Instead of worrying Im getting very excited, It will be completely new to me. Anyway, keep writing! MISS YOU BOTH....
Happy New Year! Dear Courtney and Chris,
Loved your update. If I had an address ;) I'd send this card: "What we can learn from a dead battery: In life, there must be both the positive and the negative, or stuff won't work."
After your great introduction, I'd like to visit Cambodia, too. Crossing the border into Spain had a similar effect on me.
I hope you both enjoy the mysteries of Angkor. Not to worry; it costs about the same as Petra. Know that when you look at the night sky, we'll be looking at it thinking of you, too.
sooo exotic and refreshing Well Courtney and Chris --I love seeing what you are experiencing . Courtney you do such a great job with the writting. I feel like you are here telling me in person. I can't get enough of the pictures. They bring the trip home to me. $.50 for the veggies!!!!!!!!yum. Get some more closeups of the markets for me.
This is a life long memory you are living as newlyweds on your first Christmas together.
wow! This city seems amazing. Your pictures are making me hungry and wanting to get out of Tucson! You and your husband look beautiful and strong. Love and miss you both.
The adventure continues! Courtney and Chris--
Your descriptions are beautiful and the pictures really help to put us in the scene. We can almost feel the river--in everything you guys are doing. Glad you're getting to connect with people from so many other countries as you wander.
I can remember talking with "Vientiane Radio" controllers in the late 60's as we flew across Laos at 10,000 feet--high enough to avoid any ground fire (we hoped). I was always glued to the window in the daytime, gazing at the beautiful mountains and valleys of Laos.
Would you give us some more info on prices for things as you travel: guesthouses, food, transportation--always interesting for comparison...
Looking forward to your blog on Hanoi.
Love you,
Cam and Donna
What an Experience! Hi Chris - we were glad to see you made it! It looks like your adventures are just beginning. Keep us posted back in Tempe! Hope you had a terrific Christmas and we wish you two all the best in the New Year!
Merry Christmas Courtney and Chris I have loved your travels and I am happy that you are sharing them now . I am playing Kenny G. and sending you hugs and kisses and good wishes. I was having trouble commenting earlier and now that anne has shown me how!!I don't know how I had trouble!!Send more sunsets and pictures of the food. You need to buy something for each other for Christmas as a reminder of this Holiday together. LOVE YOU.
yay Chris and Courtney together again lounging in another country..!!! I miss you both and I am glad to see youre having so much fun! I am home for the holidays and have graduated! yikes! Tonight we went to a Mexican place and I had atole!! and it remindef me of when we were in Mexico together around Christmas time(I think 2 years ago? haha) Anyways, I am seding tons of hugs and I am sad you and chris cant walk over this year on christmas day to hang out a bit.. Anyways, my mom wants me to tell you that she reads your journal all the time and has no idea how to add a comment! So I need to show her how- but she has been keeping up on your wonderful adventures~ LOVE YOU BOTH. merry christmas- Love, anne
:) i love hearing about you guys and all your travels... i can imagine everything you're doing! merry christmas to you guys, i miss you both a lot and i'm SO proud and happy to know such beautiful people :).
And then there were two! Courtney--and now, Chris,
Thanks for sending word that your other half has made it to Chiang Mai--the joint travels begin!
Your photos and word pictures continue to be wonderful-- Seems as if you've really "absorbed" much of the Thai culture. No surprise, of course.
Maybe we'll see more pictures of you, now that you have a camera-partner-person...
How about some comments on the availability/process/cost of internet access? It must take you a fair amount of time to do your writing and load photos.
Love you,
Uncle Cam and Aunt Donna
.....speechless.... Court -
These are some of the most beautiful pictures I've ever seen! You captured that lantern release meticulously. That has to have been one of the most memorable things you'll ever see...it's all downhill from there! Kidding. I think the epic adventures are just starting for you...
Love your detailed blog. Keep it up. Chris (your husband) and I eagerly await the next entry!
Take care Court.
-Tobias
Court! I wish I could have been there to share a room with you that night. :( and maybe share a hug? Lol - Im glad you felt better in the morning and found what seems to be an awesome vegetarian place. was there tofu on a stick perhaps? lol Anyways I wanted to let you know that not many people ever do the things you have done and I am sure not many people ever will. Crying yourself to sleep sometimes can feel good and I hope you know how incredibly brave you are. Can you imagine me sleeping alone in a room in Thailand? I think not- But I hope I could do it! Love you-
AHHH Sorry, its been a while since Ive written! I cant believe the things youre doing?!?! Hahaha What CRAZY trip- So is it normal to almost hit an elephant? lol Did the dig you hit die? haha Also, I love the pictures you posted. especially the ones of the band and the party! I cant believe it was that big. I wish I could have been there to see the sumo guys and women! haha I bet they do have partners to go home to at night. hah funny though- Miss you tons. Be safe-
Wonderful wonderful What an amazing journey you are making (yet again)! I love your pictures, especially the one of the elephant painting. Even without your photography this is an amazing travelblog. You really should publish a book (or two or three) to inspire the rest of us. Miss you and all the fun times in Arizona, but I hope to meet up with you (and Chris!) someday in a distant local but not so distant future. Take care!
Feels as if we're there! Court,
You've heard this from us before, but your writing is wonderful! It makes us feels as if we are there with you (although we would probably want to miss the "exhausting" hikes through the mountains of NW Thailand...) You're descriptions of the "scenes" in Chaing Mai--especially in the markets--take me back to my Air Force days when we spent so much time in Bangkok. I remember being fairly adventurous but drawing the line at trying the "bolut" (I think that's the spelling) from the street vendors. They take a nearly-hatched chicken out of the egg and grill it... Hmmm.
On that note, we hope you'll keep the fantastically-descriptive blog going--we love it!
Love you,
Donna and Cam
AHHHHH AH Courtney!!! I have so many questions!!! hehe It sounds amazing! Did you eat a silk worm?! Why did they wrap your lunch in a banana leaf? It looked so gorgeous though! And did they make the bamboo spoons as you went a long or pack them in with you? Did the guide pack in food or did you eat what you found along the way "jungle food?" Well I guess you did say you ate a lot of rice and Im assuming it didnt come pre cooked from the jungle. lol! It sounds like you had an amazing time. How much longer will you be with the Brits? This trip sounds absolutley wonderful. I love the pictures, keep posting!!! Love, Anne
Awesome! Dear Courtney,
I'm amazed and thrilled that you can treck and keep us all up to date. You look fit. The photos are a beautiful addition. I love the Shan temple and the Lake at night. The map of Thailand is a wonderful resource.
please write a book Courtney, someday please promise me you will write a book about all the things you have done and all the places you have been. I am sitting in my room reading your entries after I get out of class and I feel like I have opened my favorite book. Its such a nice escape. I love you! Your adventure with the Brits sound wonderful!!! I would love to be there with you and I am trying so hard to imagine what it looks like when you say the temples are reflecting back across the glossy water. It sounds sooooo beautiful!! Be safe! Love you, Anne
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Elsewhere
So glad to see that you enjoyed Cambodia as much as I did and managed to check out Elsewhere...what a little Oasis eh?!!!!! Cheers.