Your book lists and recommendations make me want to run away to a cabin or beach chair to read for weeks on end! Thank you. And in response to your list: yesterday my daughter taught me how to dive. I will turn 50 this year. It feels like a revelation, like freedom, like joy! I’m so excited about what else I can still try and learn and all the waters I will dive into!
I love to snorkel! And I got certified to scuba a million years ago on Utila but haven’t done it again since. It’s the next level of “diving” 💦 now that I can soar headfirst into the pool! I want to snorkel or scuba in the Red Sea!
We snorkeled there in November 2023 off the coat of Dahab. For us it was disappointing. Too cold and not much to see. But I’ve heard other areas of the Red Sea are much better. Anyway: it’s exciting to travel and use your new skills.
I enjoyed this post in particular, Claire. It reminded me of my time spent in Southeast Asia ever since 2000, the year I met my Indonesian wife in front of an ATM in Bali. She came to Los Angeles a year later in August 2001, just a month before 911. We bought a villa on the east coast of Bali in 2012 in the fishing village of Pagangbai just south of Amed, but after we adopted my wife’s 8 year old nephew from Sumatra and brought him to LA in 2015, we couldn’t go there anymore because our son didn’t have a green card, so we sold the villa in 2022 and moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico where I am right now – while they are back in Medan Sumantra for Christmas with their birth family for the first time in many many years
I’d like to send you a few links to some of my travel stories and podcasts. Where should I send them?
Your book lists and recommendations make me want to run away to a cabin or beach chair to read for weeks on end! Thank you. And in response to your list: yesterday my daughter taught me how to dive. I will turn 50 this year. It feels like a revelation, like freedom, like joy! I’m so excited about what else I can still try and learn and all the waters I will dive into!
That is so exciting! I don’t dive but always longed to learn. I love snorkeling. Do you know what underwater world you will explore first?
I love to snorkel! And I got certified to scuba a million years ago on Utila but haven’t done it again since. It’s the next level of “diving” 💦 now that I can soar headfirst into the pool! I want to snorkel or scuba in the Red Sea!
We snorkeled there in November 2023 off the coat of Dahab. For us it was disappointing. Too cold and not much to see. But I’ve heard other areas of the Red Sea are much better. Anyway: it’s exciting to travel and use your new skills.
I enjoyed this post in particular, Claire. It reminded me of my time spent in Southeast Asia ever since 2000, the year I met my Indonesian wife in front of an ATM in Bali. She came to Los Angeles a year later in August 2001, just a month before 911. We bought a villa on the east coast of Bali in 2012 in the fishing village of Pagangbai just south of Amed, but after we adopted my wife’s 8 year old nephew from Sumatra and brought him to LA in 2015, we couldn’t go there anymore because our son didn’t have a green card, so we sold the villa in 2022 and moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico where I am right now – while they are back in Medan Sumantra for Christmas with their birth family for the first time in many many years
I’d like to send you a few links to some of my travel stories and podcasts. Where should I send them?
Merry Christmas and happy new year🤩
Eric Trules
Thanks, Eric. And interesting life story! My email address is my name at gmail.