This is an introduction to our next ten days of fun in Sri Lanka. Leslie and Tiffany have a full week of school holidays, so we hit the road closer to home this time. Today, as I'm writting this, the one week holidays has actually turn into a three weeks break for them, as school in Bangkok are now closed till 7th of November due to widespread floodings. For info, home, school and all the area around us is still fully dry under a beautiful sun (today!). Few the next few blogs, i may give you some updates about our little lives in Bangkok. Hopefully we will still be able to have power...and communications to the outside world. So let's come back to our ten days adventure in Sri Lanka. This is one of the first ... read more

Some dive are more impressive than others...some are actually even colder than your average dive! Today challenge, diving the Great Divide of Silfra in the Thingvellir National Park. I know, you are asking me but what the hell is he speaking about. Fifty kilometers from Reykjavik lay the Thingvellir National Park with a huge lake in the middle of it. This lake is actually fed by water filtring from glaciers way away from here. And in the middle of this wonderland is Silfra. This is the crack in between two seismic plates, being the European plate and the North American plate. In some places this crack has been filled through the centuries by water melting and filtering from surrounding glaciers. This means the water is at a constant 2 degrees celsius...but better, this water is so ... read more

My flight from Congo arrived in Joburg at 3pm, and my connecting flight would have been at lunch hour the next day. So instead of staying 22 hours in Joburg, I decided to take 24 more hours for a little more of discovery. This week-end, it would be Swaziland! Rented a car in JNB and drove the few hours east to the border of South Africa and Swaziland. I stopped first for some shopping (aka bringing some wine back home to Thailand) and other necessities. Sunset is already at 6pm, so it was dark pretty early, not much sightseeing for me. And by 7pm, I was in deep...I mean deep fog on the way to Mbabane. Well...I stuck myself behind a car who seems to know his way, and follow that car at short distance to ... read more

You are going to ask...but what do they have with all these birthdays...The answer is pretty simple, Mari birthday is just two days behind the one of Leslie. So in our little family, we've got a "birthday season"!The tricky part for me, it is the date is also a "shoulder period" for us, the end of long summer holidays, and the back to school requirements! Not that easy to organize huge parties! Mari never came to Las vegas. The little guys are in the plane, so why not drive the few hours for the last leg of our summer crazy adventure. We started by a huge traffic jam just to be able toleave LA. What do I mean by huge...well, around 100km without hitting speeds over 40km/h max. Good news, the music is good, the Mustang ... read more

This entry is about a road, not a place. After our great time in Monterey, we headed South to Ventura on the Highway 1. We left pretty early, which made it for even a better drive. The sun was out there, but the fog was in full power hugging the coastline too. This made it for a very bizarre drive. The Highway One here is one more time anything else than a straight road. It's bend after bend after bend. I wish I would stop every two minutes to enjoy the scenery, but I still end up stopping every 5 minutes to get blow away by the beauty of the place. This is a paradise road to drive a Mustang on. It's a place where if google map tells me there is one hour drive, I ... read more