Today I was in the back seat of a car sitting with a stuffed dog on my lap. Â I mentioned that this stuffed animal looks just like my dog who I’m really starting to miss. Â Our translator, Helen, looked at me like I had two heads. “This is not a dog!….”(pause to look up the
And by mighty, I mean me. When “planning” this trip much of the time was spent dreaming about huts on the beach, $8 thai massages and indian food. Â Our thinking was, and is now, that we can just figure it out as we go – from which countries we’re going to visit, to where we’re
South Korea was a blast. The people were warm, friendly and even if most folks didn’t speak English, they smiled, had a laugh at my attempts at Korean and tried to communicate. Not so much in China. In fact everything that I really loved about South Korea is totally absent in China: the delicious food,