Back in the USA

Dear Blog readers (if you're still out there!),

Colleen and I returned to North America on April 25th. We arrived in LAX and were kindly and generously (mag trapik) picked up by Bob Woods and driven to Las Vegas. The world's of Manila and Vegas are pretty different, so this was an intriguing entry point for us. But, suffice it to say, we are now both back living in Ann Arbor (mostly) for the summer. At present I'm writing a new chapter of my dissertation (focused on Carlos Montezuma, who I invite people to google just to get a glimpse into my subject) and Colleen is kicking into full swing for her U.S. archival research tour. I'm making it sound a bit more romantic than it is, since right now she's in College Park Maryland. No doubt ensconced in this branch of our National Archives, which is highly bureaucratized with just the right touch of surveillance technologies thrown in. Perhaps she'll write a post about the "loaner" sweaters they have there. In any case, I'm not sure how much blogging we'll continue to do now that we're no longer living in Southeast Asia, but I do think we'll use the high-speed internet access we have to post photos and links to more photos from our travels. So stay tuned for these!