Category Archives: Travel
Dambulla cave temple
One consistency on our few week trip in Sri Lanka was that nearly every stop ended up being better than we expected. That’s certainly a nice aspect of taking a trip that you let someone else put together for you. Menaka Arangala arranged our trip although we never met him. Our driver, Ashoka did a …
The Gobi
That word alone carries weight – Gobi. It was the topic of high school classes about deserts. There have been BBC Planet Earth segments about the place. And I live just north of it. Getting to experience it was a priority and we finally took advantage of the chance last fall. The Gobi saddles Mongolia …
Zaisan Memorial in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
I have taken my PE classes to the Zaisan Memorial – that’s how close it is to our school. There is good information about the monument on Atlas Obscura and Wikipedia. We last went there when Mike was here in late December.
Negombo, Sri Lanka fish market
We arrived in Sri Lanka late on Friday the 21st of December. Our driver – Ashoka – picked us up at the airport and drove us to our hotel in Negombo. Jay and Shannon had arrived the previous day. Jay had chilled some beer to celebrate our arrival. Making things sort of strange was that …
A night in Beijing
After Mike spent a few days with us in December, we flew to Beijing for a brief overnight layover before our continuation to Thailand and Sri Lanka. We landed and went through the special line for transit visas. This was just a few days before three-day visas on arrival were beginning for Beijing. (And Shanghai?) …
We have accepted jobs in Chennai, India!
It is quite certain. Not everything is completed – we don’t have visas in our passports yet. But it is as good as done. We’ll be in India this fall. I will be teaching high school physical education and Pepper will be teaching 7th grade humanities at the American International School, Chennai. Chennai? You might …
Second Annual Beer Tasting Tournament
Friday night we celebrated my 39th birthday by having a second beer tasting tournament. Pepper and I scoured Ulaanbaatar shops for 16 different beers than were tried last year. We ended up with drinks from Europe, Asia, and North and South America. Unfortunately we couldn’t find any Sam Adams to defend the title from last year. We had …
Caucasia Restaurant – Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Last night we finally went to a restaurant near our place in downtown Ulaanbaatar. We’ve been planning to try it for months. ”Caucasia” serves Armenian, Georgian and Azerbaijani food. We tried their appetizer that is similar to chips and salsa, salads, dumplings, pizza-like dish and kabobs. Everything was quite good. Prices were reasonable – Pepper and …
Burgermeister restaurant in Moscow, Russia
June 24th of 2012 we were wandering around Moscow and thirsty. We had finished riding the Trans Siberian Railroad (said “SiBEERian”) and spent a little time exploring the sites before we were headed to St. Petersburg. Then we found Burgermeister. Their beer menu is astounding. We tried a few excellent beers that we had never …
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