Once more unto the breach!
Coming soon - another “Drive By Tourist” or “Sightseeing the Caldow Way” adventure. In 15 days we hit the airways to Asia. We’ll be in Japan, Thailand, Singapore, Cambodia, and Dubai. This is a trip that I put together so it’s very unlikely that it will be smooth sailing all the way. Through this blog, and Facebook posts, I will share the “Good, Bad, and Ugly” stories and some pictures as we bumble through Asia, trying not to call attention to ourselves!
This trip evolved from a project started a couple of years ago, by my brother, Phillip, and me. We published a 400+ page book of letters written by our mother and father while we lived in Japan and Hawaii. Phillip lives in Maryland and I’m in Florida, so collaboration wasn’t easy. We discovered many things about each other, not the least of which was how much the Japan experience meant to both of us. Working on these letters made those adventures come back to life and created in both of us a longing to return geographically even if we can’t go back in time. This trip is the result.
Who’s coming? Brian and I; our daughter, Cindy and her best friend Amy; and Phillip and his wife Carolyn. Carolyn and Brian are already cracking jokes about how Phil and I have dragged them to see every house we ever lived in except Japan. We are certainly going to fix that!
The 6 of us will start in Japan with stops in Tokyo, Kamakura, and Kyoto. From there we all split up; Phillip and Carolyn remain in Japan, Cindy and Amy head to Chaing Mai, Thailand; and Brian and I will head for Bangkok, then on to Chaing Mai, Singapore, Angkor Wat, with a stop in Dubai on the way home.
Please feel free to join us through either this blog or Facebook and comment on anything you wish to.
Becca. Sunday, April 16
