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I am safe and sound and updating the blog from the comfort of MY OWN BED! I have many photos and comments from my last 2 weeks in Thailand, and I will get started with that later this week. For now, I want to share my initial impressions on returning home.

The 2 flights were fine- Chiang Mai to Seoul and then on to Washington DC Dulles. That flight had a good tailwind and it seemed that they altered the route slightly to take advantage of it- as a result, we were well over an hour ahead of schedule on arrival!

One of the first things I noticed at Dulles was the makeup of the lines at immigration. The line I was in was for US citizens (and green card holders). there was another line for foreign passports, of course. The interesting thing was the look of these 2 lines. In Thailand, a white, western foreigner like me is called a farung. There were more farungs (proportionally) in the foreign passport line than there were in the citizen line. This is the amazing thing about America. We are all foreigners who have come to a new land. In the DC metro area, expecially northern Virginia where Dulles is located, the population is cosmopolitan- reminds me of London. The workers at the airport, the US citizens in the passport line, and the people in the foreign passprt line had one thing in common- they were from all over the world, and they were now in America. This country has so much potential- all of these people have talents to share- but the more we depart from the God who has blessed us so much, and seek to serve ourselves at the expense of others, (including our children and grandchildren who will have to pay the piper), the less we will be America...and that is sad.

It's great to be home- there's no place I'd rather be.