• Interview with Beckett – A Year of Travel Wrap-up

    Interview with Beckett at the end of our year of traveling (age 7) Q: Have you enjoyed traveling this past year? Beckett: Yes. I’ve enjoyed traveling because you can go a lot of fun places like Turkey and Thailand.   Q: What do you like most about traveling? Beckett: That…

  • Road Trip Disaster (and Recovery)

    In early October, we did our second border run to the Myanmar border at Mae Sai, which is about 4 1/2 hours from Chiang Mai.  We drove up to Chiang Rai the first day, then planned to do our crossing on day 2, hit the Monkey & Fish Cave right…

  • Monkey & Fish Cave near Mae Sai, Thailand

    On our last border run to Myanmar, we stopped at the Monkey & Fish cave. I wanted to visit on our last trip, but wasn’t able to find any good directions. However, this time Chuck found the way and we thought it’d be a fun 15 minute diversion on our…

  • Black House – Baan Dam

    I wasn’t sure what to expect when I saw the Black House.  I’d seen a few pictures and heard it was a bit “dark” but hadn’t done much research. Well, yes, it is a bit dark.  There are animal bones all through it as well as huge snake skins and…