Hello friends and family! As many of you already know, I am leaving in a few short days for an extended trip to Southeast Asia. This is my first attempt and test run at a travel blog. Bear with me please….I’ve never done this before….So…where to begin….When I first decided to do this particular journey and began to tell the people in my life about it, I supposed I expected some mixed reactions. And I got ‘em. Some were exc...