April 15, 2006
Tuk Tuk Tour
After the Lao Cotton Company party, Villa, the driver, took a nap in his tuk tuk while we rested in our room. Later that night we toured the city under...Read this update
April 13, 2006
Sabaidee Pi Mai Lao!
Lao New Year is a time to encourage young people to absorb the spirit of cleaning their temples, houses, stupas of their ancestors and apparently the bodies of anyone, especially...Read this update
April 09, 2006
Phousi Market
I discovered today that the Talat Dala Market that used to be up the street toward the river has moved to the outskirts of town and is now called...Read this update
April 03, 2006
Lao "Disco"
Last night a lively 50 year old woman that teaches kindergarten in Alberta Canada, a young woman from California who is a consultant to a California educational testing company,...Read this update
April 02, 2006
Luang Prabang Lao
The last time I was here was in 2002. There are few changes and not as many tourists as I expected but then this is the off season. I'm...Read this update
March 25, 2006
Faithful Tuk Tuk Driver
Nice to have someone faithful to me. I trust Supoat, in his 50's, with soft face and warm bright eyes. I call him when I need him to drive...Read this update
July 12, 2005
Stories Of The Street
Ten baht (25 cents) for a motorcycle taxi gets me to the American educated dentist down the soi and around the corner in little more than a minute...scared to death...Read this update
June 18, 2005
A Harley in Viet Nam
June 10, 2004 While I was in Bangkok Bob flew to Vietnam. He wrote to say he had difficulties accessing the web today and spent most of the day...Read this update
May 16, 2005
"Oh New Shoes Lost Me!"
After a flight from Bangkok on Bangkok Air, I have been enjoying my 26 year-old daughter-in-law on quiet Khlong Muang Beach in Krabi Province the last couple of weeks...Read this update
December 06, 2004
Yangshau
Currently in a delightful city (Yangshau) that is on the Yangtze River about 100 miles north of Shanghai. China's autumn has been fantastic, the people interesting (and challanging) and...Read this update
December 18, 2002
Big Noses In The Back Again!
Bus to Dali As we pulled ourselves up into the luxury express bus we felt that we were living large...we wouldn't have local color but we would have comfort...Read this update
November 21, 2002
Westerners Go In The Back
Thursday November 21 2002 Reading “The Coming Collapse of China,” a book written by a Chinese American economist...a dissenting opinion...he gives China five years to get their banking system...Read this update
August 23, 2002
Nyaung U
The largest village in the area is Nyaung U about 5 km up the Irriwaddy River from the Pagan Archeological Site and you can visit the market and food...Read this update
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July 31, 2002
Rickshaw Driving Lesson
After dinner, Bob entertains the nearby date sellers by dickering aggressively with another rickshaw driver who makes the mistake of saying to Bob “You are rich man-why can’t you give...Read this update
July 30, 2002
Bargaining for a Rickshaw
Our last night in Delhi before taking the train to a cooler Shimla in the mountains for a few days, we strike out in the worst part of the day...Read this update
July 27, 2002
Traveling India Bob-Style
The Indians have a wonderful sense of humor so Bob takes advantage of it and manages to turn everything upside down wherever we go. In addition to an auto-rickshaw, India...Read this update
June 25, 2002
Table Mountain & District 6
The geographical configuration of the city of Cape Town at the foot of Table Mountain is as beautiful as everyone has said it is. We took the cable car...Read this update
May 29, 2002
Okavango Delta By Makoro
The Makoro Trip through the Delta By the time the 1300 km long Okavango, southern Africa’s third largest river, enters Botswana from Angola, through the Caprivi Strip in Namibia, it...Read this update
May 25, 2002
Victoria Falls Camp
Sun May 25, 2002 Up at 5:30 for the sunrise micro-light (motorcycle with wings) ride to view the falls and the geologic formation left by them over thousands of...Read this update
May 19, 2002
Time, Walking, Women
Time, Walking, Women, Waiting, Matatus and Plastic In Africa these things work together in a synchronous whole. Rattle-trap matatus-minibuses that serve as public transportation-all seats and the space in between...Read this update
May 15, 2002
Dalla-Dallas In Zanzibar
Transportation Outlying areas can be reached by taking little numbered pick-ups called dalla-dallas across from the Darajani Market that charge about 30 cents and like the matatus (multicolored buses)...Read this update
May 06, 2002
Nairobi to Capetown Overland
May 5, 2002 We left for the 4000 mile seven week trip in a Mercedes Benz truck overland from Nairobi to Capetown. As Bob suspected there would be, there...Read this update
March 21, 2002
The Atlas Mountains
We took an excursion trip south and east past incredible green terraced fields and old Berber kasbahs (ancient Moroccan self-contained communities made out of the rust colored mud of...Read this update