I promise this will be my last post about kids leaving home, but this is the season of goodbyes. I’ve helped them pack up the junk that...

Colin moved into his house last week – a rental just a block from the OBU campus. It’s a small two bedroom built in 1934 and it’s great...

The girls and I walk every night, and two nights ago we were climbing a hill on our regular 35-minute route when we spotted an older man...

I can’t take a trip without a book. Now that I have an IPad, I can carry multiple books in one device – although I still prefer packing...

I’ve wrestled with this since the day we got here, but today I finally gave in and determined that we are not committing the unpardonable...

We went to Williams Lake today and walked over toward the dam to eat lunch. There were twelve of us – grandparents, kids, and grandkids....

Well, we’re certainly not in China anymore. We’re not even in Tulsa. It’s good to be back in Pagosa Springs, which is our Colorado summer...

I took 1,200 photos in China. That sounds absurd, I know, but be assured that I did not keep them all. It’s true that to get one good...

I made a discovery only a few weeks before we left for China. It was a brown box hidden far under my bed that contained within a...

There is nothing quite like recovering from East Asia jet lag. It’s just…different. We’re better, but not quite back to normal. So here...

As promised, here is Alison once again on the Red Couch. She is just as she was ten years ago – happy to be surrounded by the other...

Chances are, if you suffer from migraines, it would be no surprise that by the end of a very tiring three-week trip you would get one....

This has been our first full day in Seoul. Kyle was here in January and couldn’t say enough good things about it, but I had never given...

I have a very good excuse for not blogging last night. First, I’ll chronicle yesterday. We started early with a cooking class at the...

It’s Monday afternoon, and we are at the Green Lotus Hotel in Yangshuo, Guilin. We took a cruise down the Li River this morning. I’ve...

Our travel schedule is crazy. We were in Guangxi province two days ago when we visited the town where Alison was born. Then we traveled...

Okay, we’ve officially become the travelers who no longer know what day it is, and we’re having trouble remembering where we’re headed...

We’re back in civilization and high-speed Internet. Thanks Juli for handling the posting while I was in no-man’s land. The photos above...

We’re back in Nanning after the most amazing day. We got up this morning and had a traditional Chinese breakfast (dim sum, steamed buns,...

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