Dear Emi and Drew, I am a friend of Miki Tanaka and work with her at the Multicultural Center of the South in Shreveport, LA. I am very impressed by your pictures all around the world. I was born in The Netherlands, was an accountant for an American company and lived in Italy, Spain, Germany and France. I speak 7 languages (Dutch, Italian, Spanish, French, German, Japanese and Russian). Are you guys planning to make a trip to Europe? Any ways, I just wanted to say HELLO and have a great day. Jaydn

Glad all is well. It is so good to hear from you and know you are healthy, safe and having a good time. Drew should be smiling, from ear to ear, with the prices you mentioned for the haircut and massage. He must think he died and went to heaven. Emi, have a wonderful birthday and do something special for yourself. Love, Mom & Gaylord

Hi all, We are just done with a 16-days Annapurna Circuit Trekking. Please wait for some of cool pictures when we get back to Kathmandu. We are now in town of Pokhara and Drew got haircut for US$1 (including shave and shoulder and head massage - and the haircut wasn't bad at all!). Now we need to get back to our hotel to get full body massage for US$5/hr/person. Unbelievable price, huh? Drew says that will be my birthday present but I should not settle with that!

PS Mark and Izumi, Thanks for birthday wishes. I can't believe I'll be 34 tomorrow!

Emi - Happy Birthday!! Its a day early, but I don't get to post stuff everyday. We are sure being in Nepal is a great way to celebrate. We are looking forward to seeing u guys when u get to Japan. Happy and Safe travels.

Mark adn Izumi

Nepal looks great place. Cant wait to see more photos from Nepal. Show us all the good stuffs ;)
Envy to both of you able to travel around the world and here we are staying on put waiting for the arrival of this baby girl early month of next year.

Kilimanjaro experience must have been great! Congratulations! Russia was a lot of fun. Unfortunately though the vodka and caviar training program did not turn out as good for my climbing as was expected :)

mail arigatou gozaimas***a. hita mo youyaku aki ni nari banngata mo suzushiku narimas***a.mameda nno machi no minna ima taketourou 20000 hon tukutte tenryo maturi no yoru no ibento ni mukete ganbatte imasu.kagetugawa wo takusan no taketourou de kazari aki no mameda wo tanoshinde moraou to ganbatte imasu. nepail no ima no joukei wo oahietekudasai. funra mata kakiko shimasubai! baicha ^^

Hello ! Greetings from Sweden !
I am just editing the film from Kili and i must say it really was a great journey, thanks for the
great trekking-company !
We log on to see your travel-progress continuosly !
Moa sends her best !
Hope you have a great time in Asia, and "Hit the road" (i can´t remember the Swahili word that Prosper said ! )
/Christian.

Hello all and BIG THANK YOU to people who recommended us to go to Cape Town, South Africa. We had an awesome time in Mountain, at the beach - with whales and penguins, and winelands. It reminded us of Northern California but a lot less people. (You know we were in low seasons so we did not run into too many tourists.) Oh, we don't know how many times we thought we could live there!!! Anyway, we are in Kathmandu, Nepal now. We posted a post card so please check it out! We are still having fun and enjoying each other :) Emi and Drew

wish you well as you continue with your trip around the world.

Your pictures are awesome! Ryan and Jody have moved back to Montana and now live in Bozeman. It is starting to get cool here. You both look like you are having a wonderful time. We will be looking forward to hear lots more from you.

I realized both of you were so photogenic. You guys are really looking good! Having so much fun, aren't you?? Well, time for us to start planning to go somewhere ourselves. Be safe and healthy!