Summing Up My Summer

“But that’s the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don’t want to know what people are talking about. I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can’t even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.” 
― Bill Bryson, Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe

Vietnam

Been spending the past weeks writing here in the mountains surrounding Asheville.  For now I will publish some of the images from the short time I spent in and around Hanoi.

Arrived safely to Los Angeles. Extreme culture shock. There is a crazy machine that makes it so you don’t have to do your laundry in a bucket.

Can’t believe I’m not on the ship. 3 months of coconut-related machete injuries, broken bones, suturing surgical and dental procedures and starting IV’s in rolling seas, wild skin infections, medical evacuations, island clinics and house calls, and of course all of our seasick high risk pregnant ladies .

And fishing.

Incredibly grateful to the wonderful people of the islands who took us into their homes and made us part of their families.

Picton Castle crew, make sure you finish your antibiotics because we’re out. And go have a drink. I miss you immensely.