Sticky Apple Kisses

As it is the top news this week, enjoy this thought provoking video:

I am sitting her enjoying my boy free day. They are off diving and I am eating heavenly mango coconut ice cream shakes with whip cream on top. Part of me says stop, and the other part says to indulge. And then I came across a site that said click here for the best birthday gifts for her. Oh my heaven! Beautiufl dipped strawberries. Nothing says love like one of those! If you are ever looking for a birthday gift for me feel free to send some this way!

The video is cool, and I still love my physical books, but I adore my e books as well. Of course books bring me joy period, whatever format they are in.

She eats road kill. Not the ran over 40 times stuff, but the fresh clean stuff. I still can not help shuddering despite it probably being cleaner an what comes off of factory farms.

And we began it in Thailand! It was a little bit of a rush on New Years Eve to make it to the Laos border crossing in time (they stamped us out but the boat leaves from a point about 10 minutes away, which means you could in theory be stamped out of the country and the last boat has already left). But we made it, which meant New Years day was spent enjoying the day and relaxing as the day should be spent! Now we are off to find some cable covers and tomorrow we continue our journey to see what northern Thailand has to offer!

I hope everyone is enjoying the festive season and looking froward to the new year! Our festive season was more or less skipped this year. It is hard to believe it is Christmas when you are from a cold northern country and you are spending Christmas in Laos. The good news is that means it does not hurt as much to be away from your family, you just skip Christmas. But we did not skip the presents. I got the best present EVER. A puppy!!!! But we are going to wait until we are back in Germany, and I think I want a young dog from a shelter. Either way, AWESOME!!!

The latest Chasing Summer article takes a look at the joys of couch surfing and how being a dad is really rather international. That sounds stupid. Of course being a dad is international. I meant that some of the feelings and reactions are the same no matter what your culture or where you grew up, there that is a little better. Either way, you know what I meant!

Couch Surfing: International lessons On Hospitality, Cooking, And Why Dad Will Always Be Dads.

Spending the past couple of months in South East Asia we have had to be on constant guard against scams of all varieties. In Malaysia the bank ATM warns you about checking if the machine has been tampered with and if so to report it and to cancel the transaction. Now I read that with rfid technology in our cards it is not that hard to rip off the information on our cards without even having to touch the card itself. Wireless pinging of the cards can cause it to send the information. ARGH. I am looking more into this.

After much blood, sweat and tears, my first “real” book is out. I say real because as much as the packlist was my first release, it is only a collection of how to go on a trip and what to take, a mini book really. Plus the German helped a lot on that one, both in the writing as well as the technical aspects. This time around I am the single author, although he did do the maps for me, but its my first effort to release a book on my own!

I was never much of a fan of the clip and save coupons. It always seemed like so much work. However, Internet coupons like pacsun coupons I do like. No searching through smelly flyers to find them! (Why do flyers always smell?) Just the coupons you want and savings more than 35 cents! To think that future generations wont even know what it is to sit there and shift through flyers to find something you want! They will be used to targeted deals finding their way to them.