This September has been a whirlwind of great happenings here at Journeys Within. Not only have we had the excitement of Narla’s very first adventure to the U.S. , but we’ve received an amazing amount of press, and it is really exciting. I’ve noted links to the full articles below and even a link to an on-air interview Andrea and Narla had on ABC News! ABC News Journeys Within and Journeys Within Our Community […] View full post »
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I went to Ubon Ratchathani, which is near my hometown, with my boyfriend recently for the Candle Festival. I wanted to take him to my hometown one time before this year’s Rocket Festival. On our way to the festival we had the chance to visit many interesting places. We went to the Isaan Way of Life museum, and Tung Si Muang which had really nice, delicious and reasonable thai and western tasty food. The entire […] View full post » So much has happened and I am going to try to sum it up and then be more diligent about writing each day. After Narla arrived he was tired, but fought it well. I didn’t let him rest much as we only have two and a half weeks and a lot to get done! We stayed the first night with Jo and Toby in West Sac, we wanted Narla to feel at home and have […] View full post » Wedding Dinner Cruise on 08/08/08 We’d just like to say a big thank you to all of you for making our evening dinner one to remember. Before the reception wedding I was dreaming an empty party but you guys made our night really special. We’d like to say special thanks to K.Kanlaya and her team who is arranged a beautiful cruise and the very tasty dinner! The three hours on the boat were […] View full post » Dear Journeys Within guests, This month, Conde Nast Traveler Magazine voted Journeys Within Tour Company and Journeys Within Our Community (JWOC) as one of five winners in their World Savers Awards. We are so honored that the work we are doing in the community is being honored and we wanted to take this opportunity to thank you for making it possible. When Brandon and I first moved to Cambodia we were shocked by the […] View full post » Narla’s American Adventure Part 3: (insert word here) is HUGE! He’s here: Narla’s American Adventure Part 2: A little pick me up I am writing this as I wait to pick up Narla at the San Francisco International Terminal and I have butterflies in my stomach, I can’t imagine how excited and nervous he must be. His impending visit is already affecting my perspective: driving on the freeway here I marveled at all the cars and how big the roads are, when I stopped for fast food […] View full post » Narla’s American Adventure Part 1: Up, Up and Away Narla left Cambodia today and is on the longest flight of his life (by far) on his way to the US. He has traveled with us to Vietnam and Thailand, but this is his first time out of Southeast Asia and to a developed country. He wrote me a message from Taiwan: *** Dear Andrea, I would like to inform you that now I […] View full post » Today we posted a happy 23rd birthday message for our friend and colleague Sela. However – after we posted the birthday message we found out he is actually 26!!! Below is his kind response to our totally embarrassing Happy birthday message… Dear April I am so sorry about my age. I did not mean to tell lies to all of you. Actually, I was born on Tuesday, September 10, 1983. When I started primary […] View full post » I’m going through a bit of dejavu at the moment with the current issues in Thailand. Two years ago I was living in Bangkok when the Coup against Thaksin occurred (my son is named Couper in honor of this fun, but at the time, rather undramatic, event). The truth was that we found out about the Coup through CNN and we had to drive to visit the tanks and see the demonstrations because we didn’t […] View full post » |
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Narla arrived in San Francisco and the adventure has officially begun. The tour of hugeness started at the airport…”this airport is huge”, then we got on the freeway… “wow, this road is so huge”, crossed the Bay Bridge, “this is the bridge? It huge!” and saw a cow…“that much bigger than the Cambodia cow, why?” 
Everything was bigger […] 