In July 2010, Chris and I visited Iran for 3 weeks. While there, we met a man named Abed. I like to describe him as an “Iranian hippie”. We spent four won­der­ful days with him in Esfahan, Iran. He shared his mind and style of life with us, taking us to the new, hip parts [...]

This is a mixture of video clips and pho­to­graphs taken during our trip to Siem Reap, Cambodia in August 2010. The cre­ation of the video and the footage was taken by Laura Beauchamp. The fea­tured pho­to­graphs were taken by Chris Beauchamp. The video was made using iMovie. Laura was feeling cheesy when she made it [...]

I’m happy to say that our belly­dan­cing per­form­ance went well yes­ter­day! The entire theatre sold out, and seven of the seats were filled with my loved ones and friends. It was pretty special for me to look out and see my mother-in-law, two nieces, husband, sister-in-law and two friends. The entire evening was three hours [...]

Some of you may remem­ber the Gibbon Experience from pre­vi­ous posts on the blog. The Gibbon Experience is a con­ser­va­tion project in north­west­ern Laos based on eco-tourism. Apparently the local people were hunting the gibbons to extinc­tion before a con­ser­va­tion group helped them to trans­form that life­style into sus­tain­able project. Tourists who pay for a chance [...]

We helped Christine make this video today. We made it so she could send some much needed lovin’ to her boy­friend Mike. Christine is study­ing oen­o­logy (wine!) in the Mediterranean part of Europe, and is cur­rently in Piacenza, Italy, where we are vis­it­ing her. Mike is doing a masters in econ in Toulouse, France, and [...]