OK, first posting

Well, let's see if I will be able to do this on a semi-regular basis ! I was reading my brother-in-law Craig's blog, well I was attempting to at least. I first had to sign in, which meant making a new account. So I filled in all the info they wanted and low and behold.....An account already existed for my e-mail ! So I did a password reset and logged in to find out that I have had this account since 2006 ! Maybe I can make a better effort than 1 post in 4 years !

So I decided to name this blog " The Asian Way." Most of you that know me will already understand the name. For those of you that don't.....Well , I will give you the short version of it. In 2005, I had a nice life changing year. I sold the bar I owned in the US. I got divorced ( 2nd time haha) and I moved to South Korea. With the money I made from the sale of the bar and the wages I get teaching English here, it's like I'm semi-retired.

Well the original plan called for one or two years here and then back to the US to figure out what to do next. But, life always seems to throw these little snags at you, and this one came in the form of a beautiful little Thai woman. Yep, now wife number three.Her name is Laila. I met her on vacation in Thailand. She owned a hair salon that I would frequent to get my head shaved. It took some time and every bit of charm I could muster up, but after being shot down by her 4 or 5 times she finally succumbed. We had dinner and a movie and the rest is history.

So back on track....I first came to a city named Jincheon in Korea. It was a very small town and I hated it, but there were some great people that i met there.My Boss, Paul Perri, and Candy Kim. Then I took a job in Jinju, another small town ( by Korean standards) of 400,00 people. I taught for a year there at an all girls middle school. Well I still wanted a bigger city so I ended up in Incheon.  I have been here now for over three years. The school is an all boys middle school. The first thing that I noticed after teaching only girls of the same age, is that boys are dumber than a pile of rocks ! So even though girls are easier to teach, this school is so laid back and great to be at that I have kept renewing my contract.

So this is coming up on my 6th year now. I have traveled fairly extensively throughout Asia. China, Japan, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, The Philippines, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Macau. I am sure there are others I am forgetting at the moment, but i will get around to that later.