Like nomads, but with more stuff

... there is such a thing as too polluted.  We have days here where the pollution may not be China-bad (although we'd never know, the...

There is a Russian saying "There's no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing." Between four years in St Petersburg and ...

We are the least romantic people in the world. Our Valentine's Day began with cold cereal and my gift to the family - not making them c...

Oh, new hockey arena!  I want so badly to love you unconditionally. Let's face it, compared to the ghetto dump of the old arena, your b...

One thing that gets tricky for a foreign service family living in a country with a volatile currency is the subject of allowance. In the 18...

After the running around in Cambodia, we had a week in Thailand to do beach-pool-beach. We chose Koh Samui and split the week between two...

I have never, in my adult life, been this sick for this long. I am now rethinking my previously reasonable reasons for not getting the flu ...

We debated whether it was worth waking up so early to see the sun rise over Angkor Wat. You never know day to day what the sunrise will b...

  On our second-to-last day we went on a tour of a silk workshop. It was pretty exciting for me because the larger project of preserving ...