Hi everyone. I doubt any of my readers are still checking in since I seem to have abandoned my blog. I feel bad about it, and I’m sorry for abandoning you. Especially to those who don’t know me personally who have followed the blog. I want to thank you guys for reading, and for the nice comments you left. It […]

It is a 15 minute walk between mine and June’s apartments, and I’ve traversed the distance numerous times, sometimes in the middle of the night. One day June asked me, “Are you afraid (of walking the streets of Bangkok alone in the middle of the night)?” I said, “Only of the dogs and rats.” There are hundreds […]

I had a heck of a time trying to post this as there were problems with the site, and it took me days, but it looks like it will work now (part of it may have been somewhat my fault, but not really). Okay, I know these pictures don’t seem to have much to do with traveling, but in a […]

If you have traveled in Southeast Asia (SEA), or have done any research into it, you are probably aware of the reputation of Poipet, Cambodia, a border town with Thailand. If not, here’s what Lonely Planet: Cambodia had to say: ” Viva Poipet! Long the armpit of Cambodia, famous for nothing but mud and mess . . […]

Click on the images to see them bigger: I did no editing at all to this, the sky looked like that. That’s why I took the picture. Again, I did no editing at all to this picture. My hand, foot and juggle-ball looked like that. That’s why I took the picture. I have a whole series […]

Everybody sing along with me: It’s a small world after all. It’s a small world after all. It’s a small world after all. It’s a small world after all. There has been occassion in my life to speak, and not sing, those words (although after I speak them I usually end up singing the tune as […]

An interesting thing about Malaysia is that, unlike most, if not all, other Asian countries, they don’t have their own script. They use our alphabet. The official language of Malaysia is Bahasa Malay, but there are a lot of Chinese living here so you see some Chinese script as well. But most signs are written in […]

In case you were wondering, I’m still alive, and here are the pictures to prove it. Well, they don’t prove I’m alive, unless I’ve turned into a monkey. Sorry for those of you who have been following my blog. I’ve been doing a lot of nothing lately, just staying in Bangkok with June. I’m starting to consider teaching […]

I’ve been trying to write and post this for 3 or 4 days now, and either the site or the internet I’m using keeps crashing on me before I can finish writing it. So I haven’t abandoned you again. Hopefully I finally get to post it. Well, looks like no one came up with the right guess of what happened to […]

Sorry, I haven’t written anything in a while. I’m still alive, and here are a couple of pictures to contemplate.

Put your curser over the pictures.

Explaination to come later.

Well, the last time I wrote a somewhat disconcerting post, I followed it up with some pictures. My last post was, I’m sure, somewhat disconcerting to some people, so I will follow that up with some pictures as well. These pictures are not as good as some of the others I’ve posted, but some of them complement previous posts. […]

I often find occasion to utter the sentence, “This was covered in a Seinfeld episode.” And I’m sure many other fans of the show have made similar statements. Well, the episode I have in mind today is the one where the gang was headed to a party. George and Kramer were in charge of picking up the […]

Two consecutive 10-hour slowboat rides in two days–without the aide of Dramamine–up the mighty Mekong River from Luang Prabang, Laos, to the Thai border, with nary a queaz, has all but confirmed the eradication of my embarrassing, lifelong affliction with motion sickness. The main indicator of this eradication, however, was not that I could handle […]

I have learned something that breaks my heart, and levels my soul. I’ve recently discovered that I am not a true vagabonder. I had my suspicions, but now it’s been confirmed. As I mentioned in my last post , my next stop was the deep south of Laos, to a place called Si Phan Don. This translates to 4000 […]

About a minute after the dubbed kung fu movie ended, the lights inside the overnight bus from Vientiane, Laos to Pakse, Laos went off, engulfing us in darkness. Thirty seconds later, her head found my shoulder. It had only rested there a minute before she realized it, and she straightened herself back into her seat. […]

Not much interesting has been happening. I’ve been with June in Bangkok for almost a month now, so it’s kind of like I live here. Not really doing any vagabonding. So since there is nothing much to report, except that I will be going to Laos in about 3 days, here are some more pictures. Again […]

I’m still doing a whole lot of nothing in Bangkok so here are some more pictures, with a concentration of street photography. And some experimental editing. The same park on the same day as my masked musicians photo in the last post. In fact he was watching the dudes play at that moment. The Da Vinci […]

Well, I think I must have confused a lot of people with my last post . And I am a bit humbled too, because I thought it would be well received, especially from those who have been there. Oh well, here are some not so good pictures: Breakfast at a hotel near June’s apartment in Bangkok. I didn’t […]

There is a very dangerous and potentially fatal disease currently afflicting the residents of Southeast Asia (SEA). A disease so devastating, when it strikes, it can kill an otherwise healthy adult in an instant. I’m not talking about bird flu. But it’s because of bird flu that health officials in SEA are so determined to […]

The seemingly negative tone of my last few posts: the boat ride from hell; asshole, scamming touts ; border nazis; and even the sadness of Pattaya, have prompted my sister to ask, “Are you having fun? Are you enjoying it?” The answer to that is a resounding YES. I suppose if similar experiences happened to me in NJ or Florida (places […]