Hi GramWell, today was my first day back on the ole workout/ fitness horse, and boy are my arms tired! I learned that when you workout A LOT for two months, then spend the next 8-9 months only working out a little bit, the first day back is tough. I woke begrudgingly to my alarm…

Hi Gram,The past couple of days have been a bit more active. Every morning, I get up and go for a walk before it gets too warm outside. I’m always enamored with the street art that covers so many of the walls, electrical boxes, and doors along the walk. This morning, I walked past one…

Hi Gram,The past few days have been pretty alright. A good mix of reading, getting some work done on my computer, and a couple of excursions to the outside world. I’ve been sleeping well and taking it easy. Today, I decided to skip the morning walk since we had some walking planned for later in…

Hi Gram!I finally got off my butt and got out to see some things around this beautiful city! We hired a driver for the day to take us around and show us around. I was hoping for someone that would take us to more off the beaten path kind of spots, the sort of “you…

Hi Gram,I haven’t written in a few weeks, but you know what I have been doing? A whole lotta nothin’, and loving it! As I told a friend recently, everyone needs some downtime, some “me” time, a chance to recharge the batteries. When you’re a nomad traveling all the time, it’s easy to forget to…

Hi Gram!The past week has been pretty alright, if a little boring. I’m getting over the jet lag and getting into a morning routine of walking, but I haven’t been adventurous. I’ve been thinking about how to write about that – I’m used to writing logs of my daily adventures, but there haven’t really been…

Hi Gram!Habits are hard to form and easy to break. There are things that we want to have done but don’t want to do in the moment. This is similar to what some people call “level 2 fun” – things like working out in the morning aren’t always fun in the moment, but after we…

Hi Gram!It’s been a while since I wrote. I took a few days off back in January for travel, and that was my undoing. After my travel, I was exhausted for a few days, then catching up felt a little daunting. As more days went by, the task just kept growing bigger until I didn’t…

Hi Gram, Sorry I haven’t written in a few days. It turns out that the last meal we had in Luang Prabang made me pretty sick. I felt my energy drain right away and thought it would be minor. I was lucky. My body was polite enough to wait until we were at the hotel…

Hi Gram,After the past few days being a little same-same, we finally saw some change. Today was a little different in that we checked out of the hotel around 1pm and went in search of food. We hit up a place we had stopped at before for a late evening sweet, and it seemed pretty…