New authors invited

I would like to welcome Karen Mingst and Dave Wachtel to add future postings on my travel blog. Karen is a professor at UK's Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce. She will add some respectability to my blog. She travels often to remote places. Her next trip will be an English teaching trip to Vietnam this Spring. Karen has already been warned about some of the blog's content.
Dave is professor at Blue Grass Community College. We are looking forward to his stories about travelling in Asia, especially about his memorable bachelor years while living in Taiwan during the 60's while stationed there with Air Force. Dave is organizer of the college's Chinese professor exchange program and travels to China a few times each year. I know he has some good stories to share. Dave below with his usual sense of humor.