http://blogs.bootsnall.com/myrainasia the new journey Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:13:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Over a month since my last post. Now in Malaysia with my friend Carlos. It's pouring out and Carlos is looking at the fishies in the aquarium which I will skip. The nice young man in this internet place is clearing the virus from my memory ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/myrainasia/im-a-bad-blogger.html Promised to keep up to date in China and have fallen behind, yet again.  The good news is I was able to change my ticket (kudos to Eugenia at Airtreks- my round-the-world ticket brokers) and extend China for two additional weeks, so this took some of the pressure off my ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/myrainasia/the-inscrutable-east.html Back at the internet because I am trying to change my flight out of China.  Unfortunately, Egyptair has yet to respond to my inquiry and they don't have an office in Shanghai.  They do have an office in Beijing, but if I wait until I get to Beijing it won't ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/myrainasia/today-the-ys-have-it.html Okay, that title doesn't really mean anything, but cheers to those who understand the reference. Blogging today from Shanghai.  I arrived last night on a flight from Yichang.  Yichang is the main disembarkation point for Yangtze River cruises and I had a fabulous time on the President 6- Yangtze Paradise- 3 nights and ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/myrainasia/the-china-syndrome.html It has been pointed out to me recently that I don't say very much about food in my blog.  Upon further reflection I just realized, to my great chagrin, that I am not and never will be a real foodie.  Someone once said to me (in my fat youth) that ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/myrainasia/eating-in-asia.html I went on a blogging hiatus because it felt like everyone, except my most loyal readers, had lost interest.  Regrettably I seem to have lost interest as well.  This is doubly a problem since my diary is still stuck in Bangkok.  I think it is fair to say that my ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/myrainasia/bye-bye-vietnam-onward-to-china.html Been meaning to talk about traffic for a while now- possibly already have discussed this in brief on other postings, but the traffice in SE Asia, and Vietnam in particular, deserves a more lengthy discussion. As a New Yorker I walk everywhere.  Accordingly, it is difficult for me to believe that I ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/myrainasia/vietnam-the-traffic-report.html This is still the shorthand version and, believe me, you all missed a lot! Went from Siem Reap to Battambang where I took my first all day motorbike tour with a really nice guide who told me bits and pieces of his life story throughout the day.  I have to assume ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/myrainasia/more-on-cambodia.html After a month long hiatus (from blogging, not traveling) I think I am ready to start again. This is basically for the 10 faithful followers who have asked me to keep writing. I write now from Dalat in the Vietnamese interior. At the moment I am obsessing on visa ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/myrainasia/update-from-vietnam.html Since no one comments on my blog and e-mails are few and far between (with some notable exceptions who I have already thanked) I am considering suspending this effort and going back to my diary- where I have finally finished writing about Sydney, leaving me a little less than 2 months ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/myrainasia/pii-mai-lao-and-on-to-cambodia.html