back on the run
 
taher and i can't seem to stay put.   we're in houston at the moment-  here for a week, attending a friend's wedding and hanging out with my brother, sister in law and their toddler.     we leave for bangkok in only ten days, and this in-between time, after brazil and before bangkok, is our chance to spend quality time with our family and friends before we disappear for a year.    i am hoping, of course, that we get a lot of visitors this coming year-  people to bring a bit of chicago out to thailand. 
 
taher and aziz have been complaining that i don't blog enough, and although i promise them that i will try to post more, i do feel that, for whatever reason, blogging comes more naturally to me when i am travelling.   when i am out in the world, seeing things that are completely new to me, i am compelled to write about them-  it is satisfying to use the trip as a platform for my thoughts.   real, normal life is both important and interesting, but i am beginning to think that this blog is not the forum for it.   perhaps i will begin another one; perhaps i will begin to use this one as a place for daily thoughts and not only travelogues.   but i don't know.  
 
anyway.   i will be in bangkok soon and then i will be both travelling and living real, normal life simultaneously.