Well, it’s done.  We booked the tickets!!

For those of you just tuning in, let me bring you up to speed.

We have been talking about doing something different this year for our summer vacation.  Our kids are getting older and are better able to appreciate different experiences (vs just going to Disneyland and such) and our oldest is soon going to be headed to college so we feel like our opportunities to do something off the beaten path as a family are coming to an end.

We talked about various places we might go and things we might do and narrowed the list down to travel to a foreign place (Costa Rica, Caribbean, Thailand), or RV around America.  Given that the kids have not traveled much outside the US and Canada we decided to find a foreign location and go abroad.

Our final destination:  Thailand!!

Thanks to the nature of my job and my ability to telecommute, our plan is to spend about 7 weeks in South-East Asia, and Thailand in particular, moving around a bit and seeing as much as we can of the country and the culture and also have some relaxing family time.  I will be working part of the time along the way, but that should give Laurie and the girls a good chance to browse the shops without the grumpy old guy along.

Our plan is to fly in and out of Bangkok, leaving on June 24th and returning on Aug 10th.

We will miss our usual Oregon beach vacation with our neighborhood freinds, but with the travel costs down the way they are now seems like the perfect time.  We plan to update this blog as our travel plans evolve, and of course while we are away, so if you want to follow our adventures this is the spot.