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Merry Christmas to All!

December 24, 2024December 24, 2024 Ellen 6 Comments Event, Family, Friends, Party/Festival, Thailand

Never have we wanted peace on earth more than this year! For those of you waiting for more posts, we’ve been a bit busy lately. Tomorrow is Christmas, and besides our proper English Christmas dinner, we should have time to do some catching up. One of the more curious things we’ve observed in Buddhist countries, […]

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Northern Thailand Magical Mystery Tour

November 23, 2024November 24, 2024 Ellen 3 Comments Family, Food, Friends, Lodging, Market, Point of Interest, Sunset, Thailand

It’s Thursday. Day 1 of our Magical Mystery Tour across northern Thailand. today we head from Chang Rai to Phayao, via the home that Lek grew up in. In Phayou, we will relax at the pool, watch a sunset, then visit the night market for some street food. Stop 1 – Hemps on Thailand Although […]

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Loy Krathong

November 20, 2024November 21, 2024 Steve 2 Comments Family, Point of Interest, Sunset, Thailand

After Thai massages, (in my case quite painful, but they just laughed at my groans), we took a Grab to Kannika’s house in Nonthaburi, a region north of Bangkok, though part of overall Bangkok metropolitan area. Kannika’s mother-in-law met us at the gate and showed us in. We had time for a quick rest, and […]

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Ko Kret & Chatuchak Market

November 20, 2024November 21, 2024 Steve Family, Food, Market, Point of Interest, Thailand, The Arts

Saturday My volunteered to take the girls to their various dance and piano lessons, thus freeing up Kook to play with us. She wanted to take us to Ko Kret and the Chatuchak Weekend Market. Ko Kret Ko Kret is a small island in the Chao Phraya River, just north of Bangkok. It was a […]

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Door County Grandma Turns 90 6 Months Prematurely !

August 1, 2016August 1, 2016 Steve 2 Comments Event, Family, Wisconsin

Okay really!  This doesn’t look like a 90 year old grandma. Well of course, that is because she isn’t. She’s only 89 and a half. The big event this summer in Door County was clearly the celebration of my mother’s 90th birthday.  Granted, it doesn’t occur until January, but she decided to go ahead and […]

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Back and Loaded

July 27, 2016 Steve 1 Comment East Coast, Family, Friends, Travelling

Sorry for the delay in posting.  It’s been a busy several weeks since arriving back.  We’re also suffering a bit of “extended travel readjustment affliction,” or EXTRA.  (One of EXTRA’s symptoms is photo forgetfulness, so you may see a dearth of photos.)  Now, about four weeks since returning, we’ll try to catch you up on what’s […]

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Copenhagen

June 25, 2016June 24, 2016 Steve Denmark, Family, Friends, Point of Interest

We returned from our Hamlet adventure to Casper and Gasia’s place for a delicious dinner, cooked by Grasia. The next day we had Casper to ourselves to see Copenhagen.  We headed downtown where we grabbed a canal tour.  We were able to see many of the standard touristic sites (i.e. the “forever disappointing” little mermaid). […]

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From Haarlem to the Sea and Kiki

June 12, 2016 Steve Family, Friends, Netherlands, Point of Interest

Title Picture: Dirk Driving Kiki Away on the Back of his Bicycle We loved Amsterdam, and Dirk, and Kiki, but it is quite an expensive place to stay.  Dirk suggested we go to Haarlem, and we’re glad he did.  Once a thriving sea port, Haarlem was founded in the 1200’s.  It is filled with old buildings. […]

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Hoge Veluwe to Arnhem

June 11, 2016 Steve 1 Comment Family, Food, Friends, Netherlands, Point of Interest

So Dirk, our consummate tour guide/host, decided to take us home.  That is to say, his familial home.  But we were not to go directly.  Rather we went via the Hoge Veluwe National Park.  Who would have thought that there would be national parks in the Netherlands? Well, there are.  And one of the nice things, […]

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Virus

November 30, 2015 Steve 5 Comments California, Family, Travelling

It’s been a bit since the last post.  I developed a viral infection about a week ago.  Ellen got it a few days later.  Not fun, and we’re presumably on the mend, but worry about carrying it with us on the flight. Blakey flew down last Friday.  We hung a bit in Lalaland.  Saturday we […]

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