http://blogs.bootsnall.com/laviecommeart Making it up as I go. Sat, 07 Jun 2008 20:17:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Or, Incarnations of Myself  Ever catch yourself feeling sad that the past was a bright, exciting place and the present seems so gray in comparison? I do. But even if the past really were that great (and it wasn't quite what I make it out to be in these moments), it's a ridiculous ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/laviecommeart/aftershocks-of-travel.html Home again, I'm still struggling a little to fall asleep at a decent hour. Anyhow, there are so many things to think about - the what's next of life - that sleeping is difficult. I never stop wondering at the way time really does fly by. What ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/laviecommeart/around-the-world-on-a-technicality.html Eleven hours layover in a country you've never been to can be looked at two ways. Either you can resign yourself to walking up and down the glossy corridors and occasionally riding the moving walkway from duty-free to duty-free until the lack of sleep catches up, zombifying you, -or- ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/laviecommeart/one-day-in-seoul-south-korea.html Tonight I'm leaving Bangkok and I'm still just as hot and sticky as the day I got here. It's the kind of place that overwhelms to the point that after a few hours in the street I want to run and hide in a cold, dark room. But ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/laviecommeart/too-sticky-bangkok-thailand.html It's been a lazy few days here on Koh Tao, one of Thailand's smaller popular islands. Koh Tao is known for scuba diving which becomes very obvious as you step off the boat and are accosted by smiling, sign-holding men who come up between the guidebook you're reading and ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/laviecommeart/dont-worry-they-dont-bite-koh-tao-thailand.html Thus far in my travels, no place has marked me quite like Cambodia. The very moment after crossing over the border from Thailand, I feel that it's different from anywhere I've been. Even before making it out of Thailand, a young man dressed in black follows us around ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/laviecommeart/light-and-dark-cambodia.html I was so sleepy and the seats on this particular night bus were so cosy. The blankets were fluffy and I had two seats all to myself, so I spread out. I threw my bag on the floor since no one was in the seats around me. ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/laviecommeart/ripped-off-on-the-night-bus-bangkok-thailand.html After milling about the jungle for a bit among the leeches and the monkeys, Erika and I decided that a few days away from the beach merited one thing: to get back to the beach. Cousin Joe advised us on an itinerary and Koh Pha Gnan, (pronounced koh pa ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/laviecommeart/when-good-beaches-go-bad-koh-pha-gnan-thailand.html I was alone in the blinding sun, squinting for having lost my sunglasses, my bare feet slipping along soft white sand, my naked belly and legs delighting in the breeze. Everything was brightness where the midday sun found the sand and made for a surreal heavenly feeling while storm ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/laviecommeart/i-hardly-belive-what-im-seeing-phi-phi-and-krabi-thailand.html Oh I have so many things to say and show about these last few days but I'm sitting in a very slow and expensive internet cafe on a beach that is only accessible by high tide where the electricty is only turned on at night. So, I'll give you ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/laviecommeart/southern-thailand-is-packed-with-action.html