Filling your passport = writing your autobiography
The first and last…
Here are the bookend pictures of our trip.
I love how pictures can elicit the same emotions that you were experiencing when you took them. As I look at each picture from our Southeast Asia trip, it brings everything back… what I was thinking when I took the picture, whether I was sweating a little or a lot, was I hungry, and many other thoughts and emotions.
PICTURE #1:
You can see the humidity!!
We had just landed in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam and had walked out of the airport. I wanted to get a picture of everyone waiting outside for their loved ones. As soon as I pulled the camera from my bag, Lindsey was pulling me to a waiting taxi. The camera was cold from the air conditioned environments we had just come from that the humidity of Vietnam immediately clouded the lens upon turning on the camera. I didn’t have time to wipe it clear before taking the picture.
Back in the USA…
So we have finished our journey and are adjusting back to “normal” life. We made a good decision to come back in time for Memorial Day weekend because we needed the extra time to sleep and get over our jet lag. We are glad to be back but we have to admit that we also have the feeling of a void. After two months of waking up to brand new adventure, sights, and foods everyday, you get addicted to it.
We will continue to post the blog entries from the remainder of our trip. In our last post, we were just leaving Bangkok. We still need to talk about our time in the Thai islands and beaches, our quick trip through Malaysia, and our final destination, Singapore. In addition, we have ideas for some “thematic” blog posts, other wacky story posts, and picture posts. So stay tuned…
Now comes the task of naming all of our photos… all 6,500 of them! Why? Well, we don’t want to look back at them years from now and ask, “Why the hell did we take a picture of this?”
Until next post
