Hum...It's Micah here if you hadn't already guessed...I've been wanting very much to write an email to all me friends and family, and its not that i havn't had a chance, i've had pleanty, infact all we've been doing for the past two weeks is relaxing on the beach and chowing down on amazing food.
Typically while Rachael and I are traveling my emails are about among other things, getting altude sickness on my birthday on a 6000m peak in mexico, loosing 25 lbs from ecoli, getting stung by a sting ray on a deserted beach in elsalvador and havning locals poor boiling water on the wound...you get the idea, narrawly excaping death, disaster and disease. Those are the things i like writing about. Its easy, all i have to do is tell the story, maybe embelish it a bit to make Rachael and i look like super heroes, but its easy.
This on the other hand, basking in the sun, getting messages, hiking in the jungle, snorkeling, eating out 3 meals a day, living the high life.. how am i suppoed to write about that. haha
Maybe first i'll jump back to the beginning and clue everyone in to where we are writing from.
Lets start at the beginning...i was born in Rumney, NH, my parents were ostrage farmers selling eggs at the local...maybe not that far back.
After getting married this summer Rachael and i stayed around NH working for the family. Kept ourselves busy driling hundreds of holes in the outside of the apartment buildings and blowing in celulose insulation (thats chopped newspaper coated with fire retardant if you didn't know). Really it wasn't that bad, infact it was even fun at times. Especially sicne we were failrly sure we were going to leave right after christmas...right after Rachael passed her NCLEX (US national nursing exam). She studdied for months and unfortunatly didnt' pass. It wasn't the end of the world (although it felt like it for Rachael for quite some time) she was allowed to retake the test 6 weeks later after giving them another 500 buck. Only problem was this meant we couldn't leave, arrr.
In the long run i am glad, not that she failed her exam but that we were able to stick around NH for a good part of the winter. It was awesome, lot of snow, lots of friends, insane amounts of back country sledding and we bought new backcountry ski setups that we used 3 or 4 days a week. WooHoo go winter.
Back to the current story. After another couple months of studding Rachael retook her exam...and bloody passed. It was quite a sight, we hooted and hollared and danced around for days. The dark cloud that had been looming over our heads for so long had lifted, we were free again!!!
The winter was great but the temptation for warmpth and something was different greater.
A couple of days after passing her exam Rachael and I bought return plane tickets to Bangkok, Thailand. THree and a half months in southeast asia sounded like just what we were looking for...
Thirty six hours later we landed... (TO BE CONTINUED)
hope everyone is awesome!!!
Love Micah and Rachael
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