I sent this postcard to my grandma in June, 1991.I am in a small town in the northeast of Thailand. It is a very quiet, relaxing place! The guest house where I am staying is right on the Mekong River, overlooking the country of Laos (on the other side of the river). I will … [Read more...]
Postcard from Tahiti, 1989
I wrote this postcard to my late grandmother in January, 1989.I'm in Tahiti and will be here for another 2 1/2 weeks! Today we are going to see waterfalls like the one on the front of this postcard. It is pretty hot here and humid! I haven't done much sightseeing because we … [Read more...]
Ambassador Hotel, Hong Kong
When I was younger, I used to collect matchboxes from my travels. Before I turned 20, I had bowls of them from South Korea, Tahiti, New Zealand, Japan, Hong Kong, Canada, and places across the US. (The only matchbooks I saw in China back there were plain white, so I didn't … [Read more...]
Japanese treasure trove
My mom brought me this stash of green tea from Japan last week. Japanese green tea is my favorite.The tea on the left and in the center (in the white bag) is genmaichai, or roasted rice tea. If you look closely at the bag on the left, you can see brown pieces of roasted rice … [Read more...]
South African Airways ad, 1981
I recently found this South African Airways ad in a magazine from 1981 at my grandma's house.South African Airways was the only airline back then to fly non-stop between New York and Johannesburg. (My grandparents traveled there a decade earlier and flew KLM via … [Read more...]
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