(After Seoul Korea we returned to Chicago to visit with family.) July 2023 ~ Excerpts from our instagram posts Given that we need to be in Asia for Ben’s work, we are choosing to base ourselves for two months (again……
Post ISIS attack ~ reinventing ourselves in 6 weeks
The recent catastrophic terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka have had unexpected impact on our own life trajectories. We left Sri Lanka a couple of days before the attacks occurred, for a trip to the U.S. to visit family, and watched…
Vietnamese Nest ~ first stop Hanoi
Of our four sons, Adam is the first one who makes the move to meet up with us on our Southeast Asia adventure. He is of course primarily motivated by his passion for food and we had talked about a…
Green Global Trek: Indochina
After a fabulous transition from Nicaragua to a new adventure, we had 3 consecutive family visits to bond with family members on the West Coast. L.A. gave us the Sandzer connection, (Jacqueline, Chantal, Sophie and Kenny and Rebecca), Portland our…
Shani’s solo visit to Nicaragua.
We recently had the pleasure of a visit from Shani, who recently turned 16. (My sister Dina’s daughter, my niece.) She has been to Nicaragua once before, but this was her first time visiting solo, travelling alone. We all had an…
SOCAP 11 in San Francisco ~ our 4th year in a row visiting SF
We started in Chinatown… and we ended in Chinatown. What are we talking about here? How San Francisco, which is firming up as our favorite city in the U.S., has an awesome Chinatown that is a core part of the…
Empty Nesters in Nicaragua: an Evolving Narrative
Five years ago when we first came to Nicaragua and purchased a falling apart house in the Granada historical district, one of our intentions was for this to also be an investment in our children’s future. Not so much a…