Blue Water and Hot Sun

While we were all dodging the rain on New Year's Day, famed children's book author Nguyen Goldberg Tyrone Lopez was kicking back in southern Thailand. She's on her way to helping the elephants at a camp in northern Thailand but it looks like she could stay right where she is for a good long while.



Thinking about those long long airplane rides to get to S.E. Asia does not exactly float Plotnik's boat these days, but on the other hand if you want sun and sea there are fabulous places a lot closer. The Plotniks are honing in on another sailing trip with their Mainer pals in the spring and that should do the trick quite nicely.

Of course (knock knock) there are a lot of things than can happen (spit over shoulder) between now and then (rub rabbits foot).