On one hot August Arizona morning of 2000, we said good-bye to our four children and our seven grandchildren. We had no idea of the adventures and experiences that would lie ahead of us for the next thirteen months. We had no idea of the physical and emotional mayhem that South East Asia could bring to us. We knew only that we wished to challenge the idea that age was a not a detriment and that we, in our late fifties, could tackle that most trying events and discoveries we knew only through documentaries and books.