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Being There 06/17/07: Myrtle Beach does not exist. Myrtle Beach is in fact a copy of a place that does not exist. Nearly ...
Homeward 06/09/06: New York, New York. John F Kennedy airport 1 am date unknown, sleepy looking customs guard stamps a passport without ...
Feel Good Lost 05/17/06: From Lake Plivtice we drove west over the coastal mountains and down to the Dalmatian seaside where the highway hugs ...
London Calling 05/09/06: “Why are you choosing to visit your friend now?” (shrug) (smile) “How much money are you bringing in?” “Money? On ...
…Wait ‘til it Blows 03/18/06: From Battanbang we headed northeast by boat to Seam Reap. The journey was a tedious and very shallow one. The ...
Little Corner of the World 02/28/06: After my time in Attapeu I felt I had had my fill of the various small towns in southern Laos. ...
The Monsoon Palace 11/29/05: If I were to write of everything I have seen and done in this strange and wondrous place I would ...

Filler:

I wasn't quite sure what to do with this space... I thought maybe I would plant a little tree or something, but there's already a little tree just above here. Maybe a watering hole, some sort of saloon. I dunno. Still working on it.

Recent Writings

Thursday
July 3, 2008

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 …
Monday
June 30, 2008

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, …
Thursday
June 26, 2008

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 …
Saturday
June 7, 2008

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 …

Fourteen Passive-Aggressive Appetizers: Fourteen Passive-Aggressive Appetizers -- it sounds like something McSweeney's would print, but no, it's The New Yorker. And unlike most New Yorker pieces this one ...
The Orchidaceae of Mexico and Guatemala: "Those who have ever received a case of Orchidaceæ from the Tropics, know full well that the opening of it is attended with the most ...
Cross-Fade Anything (This Time For Real): Nice Javascript library to cross fade any series of elements in a container element. This one uses JQuery and has by far the best browser ...