Project Runaway

I am afraid to fly.
It wasn’t always that way with me. I think it started when the kids were small and we had a bad flight home once. I couldn’t spend the year we traveled, terrified, gripping my seat on every flight, not eating, not sleeping, not ever getting out of my seat. I had [...]

There is a jaw bone in the ground, the rains have washed the mud away and exposed it. Farther along a piece of red fabric sticks out of the ground. I stop scrutinizing the ground, horrified.
Nicole clings to me. None of us have spoken a word since we arrived. The stupa towers [...]

At first it seemed like a good idea. But sometimes when you are hungry every restaurant suggested seems like a good idea.
We were told that Kuala Lumpur’s Chinatown was the place to be to shop, people watch, and eat. I don’t remember what it was we had done that day to make the four of [...]

It was a rainy day in Hue. Dwayne and I head out with our umbrellas in the downpour. Inside the first set of walls we stop to check our guidebook and get our bearings. A man with a cyclo (rickshaw) approaches and asks where we are going. We tell him we want [...]