WELCOME TO FARNSNIENTE

After lunch, yesterday, we took a bus ride to the central market. This is a huge, octopus-shaped building with stalls everywhere. The progra

Today there is no post, effectively. The main part of today’s program is a visit to one of the killing fields and the associated genocide

Today is our first full day on the ship and our first excursions. When we wake up we find we’re docked, but just to a grassy bank. There’s a

Today we change location and mode of transportation, all in one. We’ll end our day on a ship motoring down (up?) the Mekong River. We do our

Today, on our todo list, is nothing. It’s a ‘down day’, but we’re thinking it will lift us up. We try to plan these from time to time to rec

We wake at 4am. It’s pitch black and will be for another two and a half hours. At 4:30 our guide Noy (as in "We’re a-Noy-ed to be awake at t

The call for “lights out/electricity off for 24 hours” went out at 6 am yesterday morning. It ended at 6am today. As if on cue, the birds

By law (in theory) today’s blog post should be short and boring. In the past, the government turned off electricity, phone, and internet ser

[Gentle reader, apologies in advance for the length of this entry.] Happy Spring Equinox! Today we have to be at the beach by 5:45 for a qui

It’s a bit of a funny ‘good bye’ at our hotel. They’re thanking us for coming and wishing us safe travels. Our answer is “See you soon… we’l

[Holy Cannoli, is our trip almost over? OK, no, but we did depart from Austin on February 25th and we’re approaching the 20th of March. We’v

On a prior day our guide Rina asked how much we’re able to say in Indonesian. Not much. She tried to teach us a few words. This morning, on

My how time flies! It’s already Saint Patrick’s Day and it seems like only yesterday it was Talk Like A Pirate Day. So far on our Asia trip

When we awake all we want to know is: have our colds magically been cured and is the A/C in the main room working. No and no. Whaaa. We get

The day started out well enough, if getting up at 3:45 am is ‘going well’. Within 15 minutes we were dressed, packed, had a quick sip of cof

Today promises to be a do-nothing, boring day. We’re on our own all day, for the most part. Our driver of the last two days, Tawee, is sched

If yesterday was our time to visit Thailand’s current capital, today we will visit one of the previous capitals of this nation: Ayutthaya. I

Today’s our first day in Bangkok, so it’s be good if we really know the city’s name. Formally, as of maybe last year, the city’s name is Ban

Our days fall into categories, and one semi-traumatic category is “Changing cities by air”. Today is one of those days. We’re catching an in

As so frequently of late, we rise early, have breakfast, pack and check out. Breakfast is nothing fancy, but it’s fun watching the Mae Kok r