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Family Portrait

by Mitja on January 13, 2012

Family portrait, by Citrus Ng-Baumhackl. January 2012

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Today’s Word: Insurance

by Mitja on December 24, 2011

If you are going to mail anything to us, pack it well and insure it. I am not sure if the problem is occurring with the USPS or after our things are handed off in California to the Military Postal Service but we have been having a bad run lately. About 10 percent of our [...]

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Exploring Caves in Vang Vieng, Laos

by Mitja on December 21, 2011

After leaving Vientiane, Laos, we spent most of the day riding in a minivan to Vang Vieng. The guidebooks were right: the place is a total pit of a town in an incredible setting of limestone karsts. The mountains are spectacular and rival what we saw in New Zealand last December. Click HERE or on [...]

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Afghanistan Update: Kandahar to Kabul

by Mitja on December 19, 2011

An update from Elysia on her trip from Kandahar to Kabul: My last update, a month ago, I was in Kuwait, getting ready to tackle the last leg of my journey into Afghanistan. Well, here I am. On November 19, I departed Kuwait and arrived at Kandahar Air Field, in the southern part of Afghanistan, [...]

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Tooth

by Mitja on December 14, 2011

Father, daughter. At close to the same age.

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