@Akila: Simple requests back home often turn into exercises in creative problem solving on the road as we’re usually in developing countries. It certainly makes us thankful for the little things. Thanks for the kind words about our site being an inspiration!

@Melanie: “Hooray for helpful human beings, puppies, and great publicity.” – couldn’t have said it any better!

@Nora: I’d exchange Bolivia’s infrastructure for Thailand’s any day! It often takes us much longer to accomplish simple tasks because of slow internet connections and limited access to things, but I wouldn’t exchange our “office” : )

@Dave and Deb: We had originally suggested Skype as we have a US-based # that could reach us in Bolivia via an internet connection. Pauline rightly questioned the audio quality of this and suggested a landline phone instead. Right decision as the internet froze up at the time of the interview and it would have been impossible to do on Skype.

That said, we love Skype and use it all the time for personal and professional calls. If you have a good internet connection, the sound quality can be pretty similar to a regular call. We’ve done interviews over Skype for podcasts and it’s worked well when we’ve had a decent connection. Many of our family and friends (and a few clients) are on Skype already, but we also put credit on our account to call landline phones. Highly recommended.

@Lola: Thanks! Hope we have a chance to meet in person one day!

@YellowFlower: Dan is working on part 2 of the India memoirs…stay tuned!