If ever there was a Rorschart Test for the global population, the COVID 19 virus would be it. As the pandemic spreads globally, it reminds us all of man’s mortality and forces us to choose between the “glass half full”…
Metamorphosis
I have had enough! As the smell of ammonia hits my nostrils and the fumes hit my eyes and my scalp starts to itch, I decide I have had enough. Enough of the toxic chemicals sitting on my scalp for…
Ba Le market in our neighborhood of Cam Chau, Viet Nam
One of the highlights of living in the house we are renting is the close proximity to Ba Le market. Ba Le market is a small yet dense and bustling, (non tourist) market just minutes away. Every morning, starting before…
Rice harvest season
Rice is critical to Vietnam. It is critical as a food supply and as a source of innumerable rice-based culinary dishes. Flat crispy rice crackers, rice wrapping paper, crispy rice croutons, flat soft rice sheets, rice noodles of all types,…
Ethnicities & fashion ~ re-opening a theme in our travels
We had a FANTASTIC visit to Hoi An’s Precious Heritage Museum, which opened 2 years ago. The founder and creative light behind this brilliant photography and ethnic fashion museum is a remarkable photographer with an eye for the beauty of…
My GF is painting again…
There is much to love about my girlfriend. I could be politically correct and say that it is her effervescent personality, her flexibility in terms of living a nomadic lifestyle, her often unexpected quirky sense of humor or her physical…
Nomadic Nesters ~ Our new digs in Hoi An
We intersperse our nomadic lifestyle with occasional bursts of relative geographic “permanence”. When we do settle in (for a bit), we appreciate the relative calm that comes with being still and the process of nesting, creating a space that is…
Keeping up with Ben…
I TRY to keep up with Ben. If you know Ben, then you know that he is a most adaptable creature. For the next chapter of our lives in Viet Nam, he reinvented himself as a bamboo industry guy ~…