Lovely.
Monday, May 29th, 2006Everytime I get off a bus or plane in Vermont I smell trees and breath again; after splurging on a flight from Ho Chi Minh Vietnam to Vientiane Laos I took the same big breath. [read on]
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Rx me!
Monday, May 29th, 2006“Peel everything you eat, don’t sleep near pigs, Happy travels! Come back for a parasite stool test in August.” Over a month ago the nurse practitioner at the travel clinic in Burlington sent me away with prescriptions for Mefloquine, an anti-malaria drug, and Ciprofloxacin, a broad spectrum antibiotic that works against severe traveller’s diarrhea.
By the time I reached Vietnam I was well through half the Cipro regiment [read on]
Do I know I don’t know?
Monday, May 22nd, 2006“I like to know that I have no idea what is going on… in America we are lulled into thinking we know but we’re absolutely clueless most of the time.” Lawnin said to me on my first night in Ho Chi Minh City over white wine, pizza, and a fudge sundae!! [read on]
ypoC
Monday, May 22nd, 2006Crossover
Sunday, May 14th, 2006I have to tell you something. I’m seeing shiny otters that hang around in corners eating bamboo. [read on]
Find the Monk
Monday, May 8th, 2006The street looked like most of the others I’d been lost in all week. This time I was watching for signs of the World Federation of Buddhism. After recieving some unusually excellent directions at a dry cleaner’s I found the building and bumped into other raggity westerners. [read on]
wanderwandersweatywonder
Monday, May 8th, 2006After living in Asia… you trust nobody but you believe everything… if every trip worth taking is both a tragedy and a comedy, rich with melodrama and farce, it is also, at its heart, a love story. The romance with the foreign must certainly be leavened with a spirit of keen and unillusioned realism; but it must also be observed with a measure of faith” (“Video Night in Kathmandu” 1988 Pico Iyer 23).
I’m still here! Pouring sweat onto the streets of Bangkok along with 9 million other people, the Thai, the hippy backpackers, the smug sexpats, lots of TOEFL degree holders.
“You look so young and innocent now but you won’t when you leave Thailand.” [read on]
Le Llaman Bodhi.
Thursday, May 4th, 2006That´s right, they call him Bodhi, at least back here in Madrid; and by they I mean Rhea and Senorio T and maybe their flatmate, Pablo, a lifeguard at the local nudist beach… [read on]
pretty generalizations.
Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006Have you been to Budapest? A lot of buildings here are waiting to be torn down but are being used as bars in the meantime, it´s beautiful. [read on]
Greta