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22nd June 2012

liliram
liliram

Congratulations!
I can imagine Linda saying "Let's take the back roads" and had a good laugh. I also know now whom to ask when I gain/lose a dozen pounds and need a new wardrobe [:)]
From Blog: Back East for the wedding
22nd June 2012
Bob (Father of the Bride) escorting Rosanna (Bride) down the aisle in the Wedding Procession

The Travel Camel
Shane Dallas

Love this photo!
What a beautiful location for a wedding - glad everything went so well on the day. Love the use of Bobby Vee's "Take Good Care of My Baby" for the dance - not heard of it being used in this context before, but what a wonderful choice of song!
From Blog: Back East for the wedding
2nd June 2012
Old Bent's Fort Colorado

mikiandaaron
Mikaela and Aaron

This photo would have been amazing without the oversized golf buggy in the background!
From Blog: Trip back East
2nd June 2012

mikiandaaron
Mikaela and Aaron

Great post, some of the photos were amazing!
From Blog: Trip back East
13th March 2012

jaiyen
Dan Simonds

Looking Back
I have been looking back at some of your blogs about South East Asia from the 1970s. What a read, very, very interesting to see what Thailand was like back then. I wish I could have been here to experience it,
13th March 2012

Home and Away
Bob Carlsen

Thailand has certainly changed...
My blogs cover Thailand from as early as 1949, when I was born and then grew up until 1968. After college I married Linda and we went to Thailand in 1973. Linda and I left Thailand in 1975, and returned for vacations in 1979 and 1983. Then it was a 24 year ago until I took my three kids back in 2007 so that they could see where I grew up. Linda didn't want to join us as she didn't want her memories to be changed. She was right; everything was different. Our house in Chiang Mai where the pictures of Taffy were taken was no longer there. I hope you can read all my Thailand blogs, as I returned there with my son in 2009.
7th March 2012
Taffy and Zaney on our balcony

LAtrain
Lauren Allain

Taffy looks so sweet! Taffy was the name of my family's first dog.
From Blog: Home in Chiang Mai from February 1974 to July 1975
7th March 2012
Taffy and Zaney on our balcony

Home and Away
Bob Carlsen

Thanks for commenting...
and that you are enjoying my blogs. That's an interesting coincidence that our dogs were both named Taffy. Enjoy Thailand.
From Blog: Home in Chiang Mai from February 1974 to July 1975
5th March 2012
Flowers in Hamilton

florist hamilton
non-member comment

http://www.yongefloristhamilton.ca/
I never seen this types of flower ever. Such a very beautiful.
From Blog: Bermuda - Combining business and pleasure
24th February 2012

Twin Jalanugraha
non-member comment

nice work
Dear Bob & Linda, I haven't finished reading your blog yet, but want to thank you for sharing your life story with us. Do you have any more photos of Thailand? Sincerely, Twin
24th February 2012

Home and Away
Bob Carlsen

Thanks for commenting on my blog...
and enjoying all my travels over my lifetime. This took me a year to digitize all my pictures and write the blogs, but I wanted to have them available as a legacy. I have some more pictures of Thailand; mostly of Thailand in Miniature (TIM) land that was the predicessor to the Rose Gardens, a tourist attraction west of Bangkok, but also country scenes of the Northeast. Why do you ask? Was there something you specificly wanted to see?
4th February 2012
Bob in fourth grade class with Miss Kelck as teacher

Lynn Kelck
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Miss Kelck is my aunt Ruth Kelck only got to see her every five years when she returned to states, liked to see the picture. Her e-mail address is rakelck@gmail.com
From Blog: 1959-1964 Middle School Years at Dalat
4th February 2012
Bob in fourth grade class with Miss Kelck as teacher

Home and Away
Bob Carlsen

How did you find her on my TB blog?
I hope you are enjoying reading about your aunt's and my early life at Dalat. I am a Facebook friend of your aunt.
From Blog: 1959-1964 Middle School Years at Dalat
31st January 2012

John and Sylvia
John Wallace & Sylvia Bowman Wallace

Thanks for the memories
When I was 11, in late 1959, my family sailed from Sydney to Naples on the Lloyd Triestino's Neptunia. The route was the same as yours from Columbo except we went to Cochin instead of Bombay. Your description brought back a lot of memories I had forgotten. Djakarta was especially exciting as there had just been a coup and there was still fighting going on in the city. First time I had ever heard a gun fired in anger. John
From Blog: Around the World by boat in 1958/59
1st February 2012

Home and Away
Bob Carlsen

Thanks for the memories
So you did a little bit of traveling at a young age, too. I hope my sixty two years of blogs inspire you to finish writing about your trips. I noticed that you are a bit behind on your Trans Mongolian/Siberian rail trip to Europe, and look forward to reading the rest.
From Blog: Around the World by boat in 1958/59
30th January 2012

D MJ Binkley
Dave and Merry Jo Binkley

Not sure why I didn't read this when you published it.
I really enjoyed it. We love road trips. This work stuff interferes....
From Blog: Trip back East
25th January 2012

liliram
liliram

How lovely!
now I feel compelled to search for old photos to scan. Love your posts!
From Blog: The Beginning
23rd January 2012

liliram
liliram

I'm hooked!
now I have to start from the beginning. I love these personal accounts, especially as they go back , way back, in time. I'm jealous you kept all those photographs --- and in good condition!
From Blog: The Beginning
24th January 2012

Home and Away
Bob Carlsen

Thanks!
I hope you enjoy my experiences growing up in Asia in he early years. I really was fortunate to have all these pictures. My Mom almost threw all my Dad's pictures out after he passed away in 1988, but I told her NO WAY! She moved to live with us in 2008 and still had the pictures. It took me until last year to get up the energy and time to digitize them...with the help of the photoshop at Walmart.
From Blog: The Beginning
1st January 2012

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deleted_46288

Congratulations Bob....
..on compiling and finally completing what can only be termed as the 'Mother of all Blogs' :) It's going to take me at least another year to catch up with mine as I still have photos languishing in Sweden and the UK, which I must try to retrieve in the near future. Do you have any future trips planned?
From Blog: End of the Cold War and a tour of Former East Germany, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Austria, and Bavaria
1st January 2012

Home and Away
Bob Carlsen

Thanks!
Good luck on gathering all your pictures! Yes, I have more trips planned. See my profile for the list.
From Blog: End of the Cold War and a tour of Former East Germany, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Austria, and Bavaria
30th December 2011

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deleted_46288

What an amazing childhood :)
My childhood consisted of mostly catching newts, climbing trees and digging holes in my back garden. I must confess to being a tad jealous hee hee :) Is the church your father built in Korat still there?
From Blog: 1959-1964 Home in Korat
30th December 2011

Home and Away
Bob Carlsen

Childhood
Thanks for commenting...I try to do the same for you. Your latest blog was especially insightful...and I lived through the Vietnam War as a child! As for the church, I went to Google Maps using the satellite view, and couldn't find anything that I recognized...no church, none of the houses I lived in, nothing. Thailand has totally changed since the 1950s and 60s, and even 70's when I went back after college with Linda.
From Blog: 1959-1964 Home in Korat
30th December 2011

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deleted_46288

How times change!
A great account of your early years! I just love that picture of the border crossing between Vietnam and Cambodia. If only life could still be so simple.
From Blog: 1956-1958: Early years at Dalat School
30th December 2011

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What a wonderful beginning :)
I've been reading so many of your great blogs Bob, but I have neglected to comment. So, now I will make amends. Love the pictures. Especially the one of the jeep stuck up in the mountains. Colour film must have been quite difficult to obtain back in 1949.
From Blog: The Beginning

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Bob Carlsen
Home and Away
Home and Away
I started blogging on Travelblog in 2009, entering trips beginning in 2007. My intention has always been to document my years of travel since my birth...how else was I to save all the slides my Dad took of my childhood! Most bloggers write about their trips away from home. Mine, and eventually Linda's, homes have usually been where people travel to. So the idea eventually percolated to name our blog "Home and Away." The blog is not intended to be an autobiography, although I spent my entire life traveling, with Linda joining me after college, it may appear to be that way. As this... full info
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My early years in China and Thailand from January 1949 to August 1956
January 11th 1949 -» August 1st 1956
School years in Vietnam, Thailand and Malaysia from August 1956 to July 1968
August 4th 1956 -» June 15th 1968
College, marriage, and trips while living in Thailand from August 1968 to August 1975
August 1st 1968 -» July 1st 1975
Trips while living in Virginia from July 1975 to August 1977
July 11th 1975 -» August 14th 1977
Trips while living in Ramstein, Germany from August 1977 to February 1980
August 15th 1977 -» February 29th 1980
Trips while living in Boblingen, Germany from March 1980 to July 1984
March 1st 1980 -» July 12th 1984
Trips while living in Brussels, Belgium from July 1984 to November 1995
July 13th 1984 -» November 2nd 1995
Trips while living in Falls Church, Virginia from November 1995 to August 2005
November 3rd 1995 -» August 12th 2005
Trips while living in Woodland Park CO from August 2005 to the present
August 15th 2005 -» ongoing
New Years Vacation to London and Paris with Tamara and Rosanna 2006
January 1st 2006 -» January 15th 2006
Thailand with Tamara, Rosanna, and Will
May 16th 2007 -» June 15th 2007
China, Thailand and Vietnam with Will and Mom
May 13th 2009 -» June 21st 2009
Spring Break with Tamara and Will in Italy and England
March 20th 2010 -» March 30th 2010
40th Anniversary Trip to the South Seas, Australia, and New Zealand
September 15th 2012 -» November 15th 2012
Following the Silk Road and the Baltics in 2013
March 1st 2013 -» April 30th 2013
South and Central America in 2014
April 30th 2014 -» May 13th 2014
2015 Trip to the Balkans
April 15th 2015 -» April 30th 2015
My Camino de Santiago
September 1st 2016 -» October 9th 2016
England in 2019
April 1st 2019 -» May 22nd 2019
Ancestral Visitations to Scotland and Sweden
July 1st 2022 -» September 30th 2022

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