Tag: family
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My 50th birthday (observed)!
I wanted to do something special to celebrate this decade birthday (my real birthday is Sept. 14th). I decided that a backpacking trip to Third Beach would be perfect for me. I camped there as a child with my dad, and have tried to go back every summer since having kids. It is a special…
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Santa Fe
Next stop on our summer visit was two weeks in Santa Fe, where we visited Susha, Christy, and their kids Espe & Willie. After a few days, Susha and Christy went on a special trip to Portland. Ma and I were on with 5 kids for 6 days! It went really smoothly. The kids decided…
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76 years young
Ma Chin arrived to Phuket on January 22nd, 2026. So far she has come to visit us once a year on sv evi. This time I drove a rental car in Phuket traffic to pick her up at the airport. It took 5 hours round trip — whew! We had planned to go out to…
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Family Time!
My brother Weston, his partner Justine, and their two kiddos Jasper (age 3.5) and Mira (age 23 months) arrived to Phuket on Saturday, three days after we did. I went to pick them up at the airport, and we arrived back to the beach by evi just at sunset. We enjoyed a mellow week at…
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Luxury mom vacation in Wainiha, Kauai
Taylor is my bonafide mermaid friend. She’s a spear fisher, surfer, free diver, wing foiler, artist, kid magnet, and chef. She’s also humble, kind, funny, and generous. When we parted ways in Fiji last summer, we both cried, along with Luz. We had been talking about trekking in Nepal for her 40th…then she decided she’d…
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When the cat’s away…
We met Taylor, Brad and 4yo Rex while they were cruising their boat, Pangea, in New Zealand. Instant friendship developed and we connected often over the next year in idyllic anchorages of NZ and Fiji. When Hannah received an invite to visit Taylor for her 40th birthday in Hawaii, well…how could she say no?!? We were…
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Reflections after 2 years of living aboard evi
Luz (7) Some of my favorite things to do on the boat are color, play games, swim, and play on the paddleboard. I also play Aina Amelia with Jade — it’s a really fun game we made up. Sometimes Mama really nicely lets us do video games. Passages can be fun, but normally they are…
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Visit home
We were in the States for 5 weeks total. On our tour we visited Tacoma, Olympia, Seattle, Port Townsend, Ocean Shores, Third Beach, Whidbey Island, and Santa Fe, New Mexico. It was so amazing to see all our loved ones! We felt so much love — our hearts are full to the brim. Lots of…
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China!!
While on the passage to the Philippines, I had the idea that I would like to visit our ancestral home in the Chin village, Taishan county, Jiangmen city, Guangdong province, China to show my kids some of their roots and to pay respects to our ancestors. My Gung Gung (my mom’s father) was born in…
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Dada (goodbye) Indonesia … for now
In January we enjoyed more fabulous snorkeling in Yanggelo, Naffi-Nokor, and Dayang. Packhorse Riki heading into Waisai to fill diesel jugs and swap out the propane bottle. We got to eat out at a resort and a diving homestay. Tomu learned to play bridge! Bridge is my favorite card game, so I was thrilled to…
