Good Morning…..

I’m in Vietnam! I am finally caught up. The whole traveling thing was really getting in the way of my blogging. So far it’s a loud, sensory overload. And as far as cleanliness goes, it is the opposite of Tokyo. Stay tuned…

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Nothing is certain but death and soy sauce.

Since the Japanese are famous for their fish (and not just the ones who eat your feet), I forced myself up at 5am to see the famous Tsukiji fish market, the biggest wholesale fish market in the world where all the restaurants in town go to stock up on the day’s menu items. I saw […]

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I saw Bush in Tokyo!

I was once in an airport bathroom on the way to Brasil when I heard an abnormally raucous fart emit from the stall to my left. My instinct immediately led me to lower my hovering squat in order to see what type of shoes belonged to the person or animal who created such a wonker. […]

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It’s a pagoda.

It was both frightening and exhilarating to arrive in a country without a guidebook, with no knowledge of the city I was in, and with only a hostel address. It has become my routine, but this time was different. This time, nobody spoke English, and I couldn’t read the signs! I was able to ask […]

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You need to pick yo afro, Wigman.

I think I made the Papua New Guineans seem much worse than they are. I mean, their reputation makes knees wobble. And, yes, they often have tribal wars and kill each other. And yes they carry around machetes and make skirts out of the animals they’ve killed. But the point was that I found their […]

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