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Greetings Folks, We have decided to create a blog focusing on our current journey. Please feel free to check out our new blog at the following link: Our Little Farm This blog will serve as an interim means of sharing information until we can get our own websiteup and running. We are just beginning to add articles to the blog and will publish so really cool stuff. Our objective is to share information to inspire others who desire to live a simple life on the road to self-sufficiency. Feel free share this blog with family and friends and be sure to click the FOLLWERS tab so you get our updates. Happy Trails my friends... read more

Be se to check out the second page of photos It is difficult for us to comprehend that one year ago this week, we returned to the States from our 7-month World Tour. Wow, what an exciting year. This is not a travel update; it is however, an update on our journey as we continue to live the dream. Our trip around the world enriched our lives like you would not believe. We immersed ourselves in local cultures and witnessed many eye opening experiences in the daily lives of so many different people. We met fellow travelers from around the world and shared stories, but more importantly, we learned so much from local people in the places we visited. We saw firsthand how people can enjoy life and experience genuine happiness without excessive material possessions or ... read more

Greetings to everyone. We have received many e-mails from many of you trying to figure out exactly what the heck is going on with us. We returned to the United States on the 7th of January, 2009. WOW, what an exciting month it has been since our return. We are presently staying with Lynne's sister on the mountain top outside of Coker Creek, Tennessee. During the last month, we have been scouring the State of Tennesse looking for the right property for us. After traveling the world and seeing so many wonderful people along the way, we have decided to modify our lifestyle tremendously and begin to live a more self-sufficient lifestyle. I don't have to tell any of you about the current state of our economy. This coupled with many of the self-sufficient lifestyles we ... read more

Merry Christmas to our family, friends and fellow travelers, We are spending Christmas and New Years in Koh Chang, Thailand. Koh Chang is an island located off the south east coast of Thailand. We are here for three weeks. Island life is very laid back and we are completely enjoying it here. It just doesn’t seem like Christmas though. There is almost no evidence of the Christmas spirit here at all. A few Christmas trees and a few Santa hats, but that’s about it. The weather is in the 90s. It is so hot, we are spending most of the day at the beach. We can only lay out for about ten minutes before we have to cool down and get in the water. The water temperature is very warm as well. Oh Yes, Christmas in ... read more

Family, friends and fellow travelers, We would like to wish everyone a very Happy Thanksgiving. Many of you have expressed concern because I have been falling behind in updating the blog. We are thankful to have friends and family who are concerned about us—it means the world to us. We are presently in Ho Chi Min City (Saigon). We arrived yesterday and will be heading out tomorrow to go to Cambodia. Rest assured that we have been having a great time since our last update. I am working on getting the blog up to date so be prepared for some back to back updates as I bring this up to date. I think Thanksgiving is an appropriate occasion to let everyone know that we are so thankful to have family and true friends in our lives ... read more

Hanoi, Vietnam—Part One As you can tell from this blog entry, we are a few weeks behind in providing timely updates. We will be providing several back to back updates to bring you up to speed. We depart Bangkok Thailand on Thursday, 30 September. We would have stayed in Thailand for much longer, but our 30 day visa was expiring and we had to move on. Our plans are to return to Thailand. Our new game plan will take us to Hanoi in North Vietnam then we will work our way south to Ho Chi Min City (Saigon). Our visa will be valid for 30 days in Vietnam. Due to our new selected route, we decide to fly to Hanoi then travel south using overland transportation. We had arranged a ride from the airport in Hanoi ... read more

Chiang Mai, Thailand—Wow what a really remarkable place. We updated you last as we returned from our 3-day trekking trip on 12 October. Upon our return to Chiang Mai, we had the cool experience of running into an old friend from Kuwait. While sitting in a Mexican restaurant in Chiang Mai, we happened to run into Jamil. This just goes to show just how small this world really is. We originally were going to stay in Chiang Mai for two days following our return from our trek, but quickly discovered the real magic of this city. Our original game plan was to stay in Chiang Mai for only a couple of days upon completing our trek. Those of you who have been following our journey know that when we like a place a lot, we stay ... read more

Greetings friends and family, It has come to our attention that many of our e-mails are being send directly to spam or junk e-mail folders. We have sent several e-mails in recent weeks that may not have reached an incoming e-mails folder. These e-mails will be coming from our "wanderingson" account with yahoo. The name should read John and Lynne Pearson. If you may be expecting an e-mail from us, check your spam or junk folder. Stefanie, Theresa and DT, you may want to check yours. I will be updating our last adventure from Chiang Mai, but we have now arrived back in Bangkok and working arrangements for our Journey into Vietnam.... read more

Ladies and gentlemen, friends, family and fellow travelers, We have received many questions via e-mail and messages about being safe during our travels. Furthermore, many of you have expressed concern for our safety when we talk to you on the phone. Although we reassure everyone that we are being safe, some of you still have some doubts. First, we genuinely appreciate the concern for our well being—it means a lot to us. This post is to let everyone know that we have a new travel companion who is following us around the world. No, I’m not talking about Marco—you guys already knew that he has been with us the whole trip. Let me tell you how this all started. Early in the trip, I began to notice this character showing up everywhere we went. We decided ... read more