The Ramblings of Loren Christopher

Hello all!

Welcome to my new blog and homepage! I thought it was a good idea (thanks to my brother Landon’s suggestion) to start a blog where I can post updates on my travels and life abroad. Unfortunately for me, I am an internet addict and spend way too much of my time surfing the web, but this also means I will tend to post new entries here on a fairly frequent basis!

I’m pretty media savvy, so many times I will post pictures along with the text, and videos as well! I think this is a much better way to keep people updated. As I learned from living in Prague and Mykonos, some people don’t always respond to e-mails, so you never know who is interested in keeping tabs, or who isn’t.

So, I had a wonderful Christmas today (I’ve finally regained consciousness after eating way too much food and lying on the floor like a stranded blimp). Now I have basically three days left to streamline my possessions and get pre-packed…I leave for Orlando on the 28th, then Dayton, Ohio on January 1st….then my going away party is on the 4th.

And at last, on January 8th, I leave the country. I have almost three weeks to explore Thailand and Indonesia before settling down in Korea, but I plan on spending most of that time in Bangkok and Bali. I’ve learned from my past mistakes of planning a packed vacation, and getting so exhausted from taking taxis, to trains, to catch a bus to stay at a hostel only to catch a plane a couple of days later. After a while you get to a point fatigue where you’d rather just look at a postcard of some historic monument than arrange a short bus ride out to actually see it in person. So I’ve made every precaution not to reach that point this time around.

I do have some exciting things planned however: petting live adult tigers, treks through the rainforest, jungle zip-lines, open market-shopping and paragliding to name a few. I could not be more excited! So whether you come here to live vicariously through me, or to curse me out of envy (just kidding), I hope that you do return every now and then and comment on my postings….because I want to hear from each of you as well!

Until next time, much love to you all!