New entry?  First time in over a year?  Must be time for a new adventure.

This week has a lot of changes with a big professional move that has led to me leaving Onalaska — more on that later — but before those changes come, how about a month in southeast Asia?

I’m sitting at the Detroit airport right now waiting to fly to Tokyo, then on to Bangkok with my friend, Tory.  There’s a bird flying over our heads inside the terminal.  I might switch to a flight to Beijing for an upgrade to business class.  I’ve never flown business class!  I’ll be spending a month traveling through Bangkok, Cambodia, and Vietnam — Laos is a maybe right now.

Why these places?  Most of the answer is below:

It’ll be an experience of total culture shock… delicious, delicious culture shock.  We’re aiming to do homestays in Chiang Mai, ride motorbikes to Pai.  Tory will leave after 10 days, then I’m on my own for the rest of the month to forge on through Vietnam and Cambodia.  Some things along the way:

Wish us luck.