Category Archives: Food
On the Mend in Melbourne
We got to Melbourne in a pretty miserable state. About a week into our two-week tour of India, I came down with a nasty cold that lingered for over two weeks. After five or six days of managing to ward … Continue reading
Lazy Days in Luang Prabang
We spent five great days in Luang Prabang, Laos’s second city and definitely one of the most beautiful city stops on our trip. The whole place has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site, so buildings both new and old … Continue reading
Slowing Things Down in Hoi An
After a few days in HCMC, Shelley and I were ready to slow down a bit. There’s a lot of motorbike traffic in HCMC and it’s a city very much on the go. So, when we arrived in the sleepy … Continue reading
Ho Chi Minh City with Scott and Cesar
We flew just an hour from Phnom Penh to Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), but it felt like a time warp. Phnom Penh reminded me of African cities I’ve been to, with lots of large, dusty SUVs transporting NGO workers … Continue reading
Thanks, Australia
The cruel irony. I made it through four months in Asia without a hint of an upset stomach, including two weeks in India without so much as a tummy rumble, but here we are now in beautiful clean Australia, with … Continue reading
Holiday in Cambodia
Except in Siem Reap, the jumping off point for tours of Angkor, tourism has yet to completely take over Cambodia. So, when we arrived in the small town of Kampot, about 3 hours south of Phnom Pehn near the coast, … Continue reading
Good Friends and Good Food in Singapore
We flew out of Bali and into Singapore on a Thursday afternoon, and in just a quick couple of hours it seemed like we had jumped planets. On the taxi ride into downtown Singapore from the airport, I stared in … Continue reading
American Date Night in Kuala Lumpur
We arrived back in Kuala Lumpur (we had a brief stay there when we first arrived in Malaysia) after a long bus ride from the seaside town of Lumut. I was excited to be back in the big city–more and … Continue reading
We’re talkin’ baseball…
Many expat Americans, including several families of American baseball players that bounce between Japanese teams and the majors back home, live in the same condo complex as our friends the Injays. Trish happened to mention that we’d be visiting to … Continue reading
Hiroshima and Miyajima
A few days after we’d gotten to Kobe, once we’d gotten our energy back, we headed west on the shinkansen–Japan’s bullet train–for an overnight trip to Hiroshima and Miyajima. From the time we’d started planning our trip to Japan, we … Continue reading