Posted in Australia, Cambodia, China, Egypt, Greece, India, Israel, Laos, Nepal, Peru, Singapore, Tanzania, Thailand, Travel, Turkey, United States, Vietnam on Nov 30th, 2008
Hello! Well, the blog isn’t dead, yet. After returning to Denver last summer, Jen and I returned to our previous jobs. We bought a home (something about staying in a different place every other night), now own a dining room table and patio furniture, but honestly, the most luxurious item is still our very own [...]
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Posted in Thailand on Jan 3rd, 2008
Mon, Dec 24—At Thai cooking school today, Mark was a bad Thai wife. We were making green curry from scratch and Mark got the job of grinding all the paste spices using the granite mortar and pestle. “Good Thai wife pound like this,” our teacher instructed, pounding the pestle with all her strength, as if [...]
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Posted in Thailand on Jan 1st, 2008
What is life like for 20,000 Burmese refugees living in just one of nine camps along the Thai border? They cannot return to Myanmar or they will be killed; they cannot legally enter Thailand; they cannot attain refugee status and relocate to places such as the US or Europe because Thailand has not signed [...]
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Posted in Thailand on Dec 24th, 2007
So this missionary guy lost his wallet. A one-eyed monk found the wallet and called the missionary to return the wallet. Thus a cross-spiritual relationship began–the meeting of Christianity and Buddhism…and this is where we entered.
A friend of ours in Denver works for Cadence International, a Christian Mission, and she connected us with [...]
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Posted in Thailand on Nov 15th, 2007
(1) We’ve spent the last six days staying at a US$15/ni bungalow on an island in southern Thailand. Now, even in Thailand, a $15/ni bungalow ten feet from the water implies you are not in the most luxurious of accommodations; true enough, we discovered we were sharing the bungalow with at least one Thai-sized [...]
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