“Begin with the end in mind.” – Stephen Covey My intentions for this blog are: To Create — This blog will be a creative outlet, an opportunity for me to bring into being something imaginative, entertaining, and occasionally, hopefully, inspired. To Reflect – This blog will encourage self-reflection, an indispensible…
The Blog
Welcome to DreamBigLiveBoldly.com. This blog is about my travels through life, both literally and figuratively. I intend to share some of my experiences in the world as I explore it, including exotic foreign locales but also special places closer to home. I will also write about the things I’m learning…
Signoff
Looking back on our trip, some things seem surreal. Did we really do that? We’re already starting to forget some of the details of the things we experienced. We’re glad that we have many photos, a journal, and this blog to help us remember. People we meet ask us, “What…
Travel Quotes
Here are some inspiring travel quotes. They weren’t written by us, but they’re impressive nonetheless: 1. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain 2. “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – St. Augustine 3. “People travel to…
Things we’ve learned while traveling
We’ve learned a lot while traveling. We have seen and experienced so much that it’s hard to process everything, but here are some of the things that we think that we will stick with us…. How to sleep in our clothes. How to ride an elephant. How to make Tibetan…
Things we’re looking forward to when we return
Over the last ten months we’ve had some amazing experiences, but we’ve also missed many of the comforts of home. Here are the things we’re most looking forward to: Food – we’re craving a lot of foods that we haven’t had in a long time: breakfast cereal properly cooked toast…
The American War in Vietnam
Vietnam became a colony in the 1880’s, when France took control by force. Like most of South East Asia it was occupied by the Japanese during World War II. After the war, Ho Chi Minh, leader of the Viet Minh, communists from the northern part of Vietnam who had resisted…
Things you can do on a motor scooter
We’ve seen a lot of things done on a small motor scooter during on our travels. Here are some of them: Lean against it while trying to look cool for the opposite sex Make out with one’s boyfriend or girlfriend in the park while balancing on the kickstand Pull a…
Observations about Vietnam
The government here is communist (or heavily socialist), but the economic system is capitalist. Vietnam has been repelling invaders for the last two thousand years — the Khmers, Chinese, French, and most recently the Americans. They are fiercely proud of this fact. Vietnam is one of the largest rice exporters…
Quotes from His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama
These words are from the leader of Himalayan Buddhism, a man who describes himself as ‘a simple Buddhist monk’. They had resonance for us, so we wanted to share them with you. “This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own…