Farewell my big Asian friend.

Oh! Southeast Asia, I cannot believe it is already time for us to part! At first we didn’t get along, I admit. But that was before I knew the art of cutting in line, disregarding traffic laws, hocking loogies, and ignoring someone’s presence for bargaining purposes. It took me a week to understand you. Sorry, […]

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The answers are in the holes.

Passed the flurry of rainbow headscarves, I entered Kuala Lumpur’s Chinatown. Convinced by a pushy maitre d’, I sat at a table in a pricey restaurant on the main thoroughfare to eat some garlic asparagus and watch the people variety pass by. I learned a lot at that table. But mostly I figured out why […]

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Peeps! And it’s not even Easter.

I have fallen in love so many times on this trip (with people and cities and desserts and landscapes) that I fear my heart won’t remember how to function in normal society. I guess I am going to have to keep falling in love forever. With everyday items. That is my plan. What a lovely […]

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eye-lands

Now we are caught up to where my camera was chased into the sea by a vicious monkey.Yet I find myself on a jungle island filled with photographic treasures. If I had a camera, this is what I would shoot: Monitor lizards the size of Gary ColemanThe ‘beware of falling coconuts’ signA ripe banana tree […]

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beautiful vomit

Koh Phi Phi (pronounced pee pee) is another paradise in paradox. I hate the word breathtaking, but I really think this island on the Andaman coast of Thailand deserves it. If there were a beauty competition among islands, I’d say it would win every time, provided the judges had really bad sinus infections or were […]

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