Sunday, January 27, 2008

new news

hello everyone!

carson here, i have two important things to say in this latest edition. one, and the biggest piece of information, is that melissa and i have bought a plane ticket home! we are both very excited, after days of searching, to have found the perfect plane tickets for the end of our trip. we will be heading back to los angeles on april the eighth, for our own culture shock to the extreme, and to see our great friend Rocket, who it has been almost a year since we have seen! we will spend 5 days there (also seeing a couple other friends from bellingham.) then we will be flying up to seattle on april the thirteenth. ...and then off to hawaii! we'll be home for a little over 2 weeks and then we head to the big island to see our friend abram who we met here in pai. we come back from that trip around may 15th...so that's the plan! in the meantime we are heading to laos today, and then down to the islands more in the south where we will (hopefully) get to spend time with a few of our favorite people that we've met on our trip, and maybe some newcomers traveling from portland! a brother sister combo, jeremy and jennea are coming to thailand and it will be great to see them as well. then down to bali, which is where we fly out of back to the states.

the other piece of news. after debate, i am putting it out there to our communities to help us in the last couple months of our travels. if you are feeling financially secure and you would like to help support us on our journey, i have a paypal account for carsonmead@gmail.com if you don't have paypal, you just go to paypal.com and sign up, click send money and then type in my email to send it to. please do not put any financial strain on yourself to do this! 1 US dollar equals 9345 Indonesian rupiahs...20 US dollars = 186,930 rupiahs!

we love you all and i can't tell you how much we appreciate you all. our communities are what make life so special and help create aliveness in me.

'then you spread your wings and you take fly, feel that morning and there is nothing on you.' a quote from billie holiday. :)

1 comment:

Kennedy said...

Hey... Your life sounds so exciting!! I hope I can travel around the world someday! I live in Hawaii so if you see a girl waving at you, and you have no idea who she is... it's me!! :)