Searching for Greg Fokker September 24th 2008 Alternate Title: "...Everything but Yul Brynner"
Lumbering. This describes two actions of the asian elephants that we had the opportunity to visit with in the surprisingly diverse country of Thailand. Asian elephants, up until the last half century were used for lumbering as beasts of burden in the logging industry of northern Thailand. Lumbering also describes the deceptively slow ... read more
Asia » Thailand » South-West Thailand » Ko Samui A unified Thai kingdom was established in the mid-14th century. Known as Siam until 1939, Thailand is the only Southeast Asian country never to have been taken over by a European power. A bloodless revolution in 1932 led to a constitutional monarchy.... ... read more
We're back in the United States and still shaking off the jet lag! We took a few months off from working to travel to many of the places in the world we've dreamed of visiting. It was an exhausting, exhilirating, exothermic whirlwind that still feels like an out-of-body experience to us. And we loved every minute of it (except perhaps the diarrhea).
We appreciate everyone -- family, friends, curious blog-browsers, and even the internet pervs--who checked out our blog this past year. It was a labor of love, and we appreciated the comments, e-mails, and general "... full info