The Vernon Journal

Oh, how I wish this picture wasn’t so blurry! But it is so cute, I’m posting it anyway! This is Abi and her best friend Mary (or Ma-li in Akha) who is 3 years old. Ma-li lives across the road from us in the village. Her and Abi have become great friends in the past [...]

A couple of weeks back we had the opportunity to accompany a missions team from Singapore to the Akha village of Doi Chang (Elephant Mountain) to attend the Christmas celebration there. We had a great time and even enjoyed the cold cold weather (temperatures in the 40s), but the trip was not without adventure! On [...]

We have had (and will have) visitors and teams from all over the world in these months from July to September. We’ve had doctors from Singapore and Germany who offered their expertise in free Akha village clinics. We’ve had an old Colorado friend who now lives in Scotland come through for a few days. We [...]

Recently I’ve been thinking about how much you (our beloved readers) still don’t know about our lives in Thailand! Even after three years of blogging, we haven’t begun to scratch the surface of all the interesting things we see and do on a daily basis. So, I’m hoping to start blogging a bit more about [...]

While I’m stuck in meetings discussing the new Akha orthography (actually, a really cool experience that I will fill you all in more on later) Lori is much more literally stuck in Mae Salong with a broken vehicle. You heard it right, our truck is broken again. A very similar problem to all our other [...]