No, no Singapore photos yet.  But these are the remainder of our vacation photos from Thailand.  The beach we were at was just amazing.  So if you are still suffering through the throes of a miserably cold winter, I wouldn’t recommend viewing these.  Just wait until the temperature warms up a few degrees. Prachuap Part…

It is not the best (or most romantic) way to spend Valentine’s Day, I know.  Christa is in Chiang Mai with Sarah.  I’m in Bangkok with Anna.  Our first wonderful week in Thailand was spent at the beach.  Our second week was spent at our company conference at a resort just outside of Chiang Mai. …

Here’s some beach pictures…  Live vicariously–without the sunburn! p.s. Regarding beach reading…I made a bit of a mental error with Hornby’s About a Boy.  Some of you probably caught that, but were too polite to mention it.  I’ve even seen the movie and I forgot about the fact that the entire story hinges on a…

Suffice it to say we’re here at the beach in Prachuap, Thailand…and IT (pause) IS (pause)… AWESOME!  (That was a Chris Farley "awesome" by the way–god rest his soul.) Our second story bungalow apartment overlooks the blue sparkling hues of the pool and (more importantly) the Gulf of Thailand which sits a mere 30 yards…

OK, it’s not really 3 days until Thailand, it’s 4, but we’re heading to Chengdu in 3 so that’s my new countdown figure.  Xining has been cold, hands-getting-numb-inside-gloves cold lately.  There is a dusting of snow on the ground outside.  Our friends living in Jianzha couldn’t make the bus trip to Xining yesterday because the…

Well, we’re back in-country; in Xining that is.  And it’s chilly!  This morning I crawled out of bed and scrambled in my closet for the long underwear.  The heat in our apartment doesn’t come on until the 15th of October, but with today’s high temperature of 46 degrees we obviously could use some warmth RIGHT…

As promised, I posted a few new Thailand photos here.  They are mostly of the family, not the sights.  I posted a lot of pictures of Thailand (i.e. sights) last year I think.  Check out yetispeak classic for those. I also wanted to add a note of clarification about yesterday’s post.  It feels good to…

Well, we’re back here at the Suan Bua Hotel Resort (located just outside of Chiang Mai) for our annual conference.  I was really feeling ready to be back at our home in Xining recently (especially after that brutal Hepatitus B booster I took in the arm today) but I guess you really can’t complain about…

Did you expect pictures of the Johnson family riding on the backs of smelly gargantuan elephants? Yeah, so did I! I’m bummed… Anna suspiciously started to lose her voice the other day; then she got a fever; then she had bowel symptoms you’d rather not hear details about…etc. Needless to say, I was optimistic that…

Thanks for the prayers, encouragement, and empathy regarding our flood experience. It was very brief and we were very fortunate to get out of it without getting wet (or worse!) Here is some info I got from the Bangkok Post regarding the flood: It was the worst flood in this area (maybe the whole country…I…