Postings from Ko Kradan, Thailand
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Beginning of the End
04/21/06
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I will confess to being a bit melancholy on the ferry from Ko Phi Phi to Ko Lanta. It was slowly beginning to sink in that my trip was nearly over, the money nearly gone and coming home no longer …
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Topics:
Asia,
Boats,
Friends,
Islands,
Round The World Trip
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Closing Time
04/30/06
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After spending the better part of the day running about Trang, from the customs house to immigration and then Tesco and other warehouse stores for Wally’s supplies, I was dropped off near the train station. I had been feeling a …
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Topics:
Asia,
Goodbyes,
Round The World Trip,
Trains
Recent Writings
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Thursday
July 3, 2008
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Tiny Cities Made of Ash
The bells are a constant cacophony, not the rhythmic ringing out of the hours or tolling from mass that the human mind seems …
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Monday
June 30, 2008
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You Can't Go Home Again
The wind became constant on the second day, changing from the occasional gust that would precede an hour or two of torrential rains, …
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Thursday
June 26, 2008
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Returning Again — Back on Little Corn Island
This is a first — going back to somewhere I’ve already been. Generally speaking, the world seems so huge and so full of …
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Saturday
June 7, 2008
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In Love With a View: Vagabonds,
Responsibilty and Living Well
Tim Patterson, editor of MatadorTrips.com, recently published an article entitled How To Travel The World For Free (Seriously). There are some good tips …
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Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
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My first hands on with Borges... Absolutely amazing. So far beyond what I've been reading lately (mainly non-fiction and some late 20th century authors). As with Faulkner, I find it shocking that I was given an undergraduate degree in English without having read Borges. That simply should not be allowed. Everything I was expecting and so much more. If, like me, you know Borges through his myth rather than his words, this is a fine place to start. And rest assured, the myths are nothing next to the real thing.
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