This is a question we often get while traveling, posed from people we meet who live in countries other than the U.S.A. I would love them (and anyone else) to read this article from the New York Times. Maybe it will answer some questions about just how effective ignorance and scare tactics can [...]

The refugees have returned home and are now soul searching once again. The future holds many options for us, which is always a good position to be in, but now we have decisions to make. As for Peace Corps, we have 3 options. The first was to transfer directly from Armenia. [...]

Sad but true, our first post from Peace Corps Georgia is actually coming from Armenia. Thursday of the 8th week in our 10 week intensive training program (PST - Pre-Service Training) we got a Safety Alert text message that there was fighting in South Ossetia (off-limits conflict zone/separatist region) and we will be picked up for [...]

Hello faithful readers… we are here at staging in Philadelphia, PA and we have had a small bit of time to check out the South Street area for dinner the last 2 nights. Our first night we went to Jim’s Steaks at 3rd & South. I had a steak sandwich with “Whiz” (Cheez Whiz) with [...]

I am happy to announce that we have migrated our web page to a hosting company who is 100% solar powered. The energy used to power the servers 24 hours a day comes from the big yellow ball of nuclear fusion 93 million miles (150 million kilometers) away. I did quite a bit [...]

As we traveled through Asia we encountered many stories of unusual weather, and heard more often than not that “the weather is not normal for this time of year.” To me it is quite obvious that something is rapidly changing in our world which is affecting the weather. Whether it is due to [...]

There are a lot of things that you kind of accept, deal with and/or try while traveling that would never cross your mind as a possibility at home. Sometimes these encounters were due to the attempt to conserve money when we opted for the least expensive option, and sometimes it was just due to [...]

I got to meet and pet really big kitty cats today. It was so cool. Yes Mom, they’re chained up (well hidden in the picture above) and recently fed. Also, supposedly (and shockingly), they are not sedated. They are all orphan tigers that have been adopted by the monks in a monastery near Kanchanaburi, Thailand. [...]

This is supposed to be the end of the dry season. Well, it is the opposite of dry. Meghan, Mrs. T. and I went for a hike in the Khao Sok National Park in southern Thailand yesterday and in the first 3 minutes of our walk from the hotel to the Park entrance, [...]

And we are so happy that she is! She has jumped right into backpacking with both feet–her introduction to Indonesian bathrooms included squat toilets and scoop showers which she used without batting an eye. I guess it is kind of like camping indoors, and she is certainly an experienced camper. Mom’s first [...]