Everything fits in the palm of your hand.

Catching the sun in Beijing.

Upper left apt. in the picture is home for now.

Me standing outside of my apartment in China.

Starting Over

Boats are still stranded on shore two months after the tsunami hit Thailand’s southwest. Over seven hundred locals have been set up in temporary shelters on the mainland in and around Krabi. Tourists/volunteers like us are helping to change the tide for these devastated communities that typically thrive off of tourism as their main source [...]

Ionic Spray is Euphoric

Taking time to relax and pose for a picture after a trek into a jungle north of Chiang Mai, Thailand. Climbing over hillsides thick with vegetation, crossing rickety bamboo and cable suspension bridges, riding an elephant more pokey than me, soaking our feet on a bamboo raft while being splashed by laughing locals, and visiting [...]

Two Guys with Big Ears

Exploring the very Buddhist country of Thailand…
Just outside the southern city of Krabi Kim and I hiked up a hill, I think of it as a mountain, but that’s only my point of view, to enjoy a wonderful vista of the land below, light some incense, relax, and take a few photos. There are various [...]

Sawatee

Hello everyone. This is Nate. Yes, I am copying my wife Kim and making a blog. She has encouraged me although I’ve been hesitant and while in China I could not have started one if I wanted to – but now maybe some of you will actually check out both of our websites. Our time [...]