Category: Family


Day 208

BAILEY WAVING GOOD-BYE TO ALICE AND DUSTIN as we are heading out to meet Cheryl who Bailey is going on to the airport with.  Bailey’s 26 day visit sure went fast.

Day 207

MY WIFE ALICE WITH MY NIECE BAILEY, all dressed up in saris, ready to go to a Guy Holud.

DUSTIN WITH “SISTER” DIPTI AND HER HUSBAND JAMES posing with Dustin’s Birthday cake!  Dustin’s cousin Bailey sneaks into the photo.

Day 204

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY SON, DUSTIN!  Here he is cutting his cake with Bailey, Candace and Katriel looking on.  It was a delicious jello cake.

Day 200

MY NIECE BAILEY drawing a crowd of guys at Cox’s Bazaar!

BAILEY AND I ON A RICKSHAW being photographed by a willing bystander.

Day 186

YESTERDAY I TOOK MY NIECE, BAILEY, to the Bihari camp where  our house-helper, Shaheen lives.  This is a photo of Bailey with Shaheen’s niece.  The niece is holding the polaroid photo Bailey took of her.

Day 183

BY NOON TODAY 2011 WILL BE HALF OVER!  Our niece, Bailey King arrived early this morning from California.

Day 165

YESTERDAY WAS A FULL DAY as we celebrated our 42nd wedding anniversary.  We walked for 45 minutes at 4:45 am.  At 6:45 I played 2 hours of tennis, followed by a nice breakfast.  Was back home in time to go to Coffee World to celebrate with Dustin and Alice.  We were celebrating our anniversary, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day and Alice’s birthday which is coming up in 4 days.  Home in time for a nap before supper.  Supper was left-overs!  Of course the left0vers were mashed potatoes and steak!  I must confess it is the best steak in Dhaka, since my wife knows how to cook up a terrific swiss steak.  I then went shopping for some things Alice wanted before our trip and also bought 20 red roses, which she really enjoyed.  Then after shopping I had a few minutes before we went to Jeremy’s for A & W root beer floats.  This is one of our favorite drinks!  It was very thoughtful of them to fix these for us.  Then it was home to bed.  Today was almost as fast and furious.  A friend who had borrowed my camera returned it at 8:20 pm, in plenty of time for our 5:30 am departure for the train station.  Almost a week in Syhlet, Bangladesh and then on into India, staying near Cherrapungee for several days.

HAPPY 42ND ANNIVERSARY TODAY FOR Alice, my wonderful wife and I.  She has been a faithful comrade throughout life.  Whether hiking in Nepal, Colorado, Arizona or Bali she has been a trooper navigating canyons, volcanoes, and mountains! Married life, in Virginia, Pennsylvania, Iowa, Ontario, Ohio and Bangladesh! I thank God for giving me such a wonderful companion.  I met her on September 18, 1966 in beautiful Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, and married her 1,000 days later!!

On a 4 day hike in Nepal from near Pokhara up to Poon Hill and back.

Celebrating our 40th anniversary!

Day 157

ALICE AND DUSTIN WAITING for the train.  For some reason my camera was set to monochrome for this photo, but I liked it for this photo.

Day 150

BENGALI FATHER WITH SON, AND CHAYLA eagerly posing or a photo.