good memories i loved reading your blog and the fotos were excellent. very nice. i was in myanmar too but made no blog . only photo entrys. if you would like to see
http://public.fotki.com/nicola-/
empty graves I'm glad you took the extra effort to add this to your blogs. People should know what CAN happen if allowed.
These graves are now empty in more ways than one: I tried earlier to send a photo of the 2 daughters of one of our staff in Regulatory. (Is is such a cute picture, but it wouldn't attach.)
Her parents carried her out of Cambodia when she was a baby. They were almost killed during fighting several times on their journey and then lived in refugee camps for years. She told me that one of her first memories was of being lifted out of a ground trench into the air with bullets whizzing around her. The Khmer Rouge attacked the refugees while they were camped for the night. Everyone dived for cover into the foxholes they always dug, but in the dark her mother thought that she had grabbed someone else's child. "No, lady, no! That's your child," the woman her mother was trying to hand her to hissed, and Sarah was lowered back against her mother's body. She said she knew better than to make a sound during the time she was exposed to gunfire.
She arrived here in Santa Rosa when she was 12. Here at MDT, she worked her way up from the production floor and is now in U Pheonix distance learning classes to earn a bachelor's degree while she's working fulltime.
She's one of my heroes.
I'm not at all jealous of your worldly travels...after all I get to sit in a cube all day looking at a computer. What more could a woman want? Worldly sights? Incredible View's? Exploring cultures? Exotic animals and food? Heck NO! It doesn't begin to parallel my existance I have working and existing within a 5 mile radius of Santa Rosa. .....I have to get a kleenex now and dry my eyes....yes, .I have NO life. So thanks for sharing the pics cause it's the only travel I'm doing now adays! Travel safe! Karen
Envy deluxe Hi Guys So glad to see you are having the time of your life. Makes me want to go on honeymoon again!!!
Everyone looks great.
We are off to South Africa at the end of the month . Im doing 4wheel drive safari in Boyswana up to Savuti where Bill and Lindy visited and Margi will join me At Vic Falls.
Life is great.
Lots of love, and to any of your family if you see them soon please Jac.
Take care
Des
Sitting Buddha and Lady Liberty I delivered a baby girl to a Chinese couple in 1985. They had come to the US from Mainland China when it was in the latter stages of the Cultural Revolution. The girl was their only child by choice, she grew up on the Neptune swimming team. At Maria Carrillo, Hannah was on the swim team with her. I asked the mother how she got her daughter into swimming. Mother said that when she was a little girl on the mainland, just across from Hong Kong, she would sneak out of the house at 10pm and practice swimming in the bay. When she was good enough at swimming, she swam to her freedom in Hong Kong, and later was able to come to work in the US at Hewlett Packard in Santa Rosa. It was the sport that came to mind for her daughter to try.
There you guys are in Hong Kong with the world at your feet. Great pictures. Enjoy. Peace, Freedom, education, adventure, love...
Thanks for including me on your list, Chris
Lucas (US of A) & Jacqui (Aussie) Buchanan - married September 9th, 2006 in Sonoma County. 2 bags, no jobs, dwindling cash flow, and a passion for travel. This is our 9-month honeymoon. Life is good!
Friends and family - you can track our progress through this site. We'll try to fill it with photos, recommendations, funny stories, and a little bit about where we've been. Make sure to add emails from domain "@travelblog.org" to your safe list.
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe. ~Anatole France
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good memories
i loved reading your blog and the fotos were excellent. very nice. i was in myanmar too but made no blog . only photo entrys. if you would like to see http://public.fotki.com/nicola-/