a travelogue
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04/02/08
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Blog Post from
San Juan Del Sur // San Juan Del Sur // Nicaragua
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Return to the Sea
Rivas was hot, dusty and filled with touts clamoring to shove you a cab bound for just about anywhere but Rivas itself. Not being the sort of tourists that like to disappoint a determined tout, we ended up in one of those cabs, along with a couple of Nicaraguans, bound for the Pacific coast town of San Juan Del Sur. …
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Topics:
Beach,
Nicaragua,
Sunsets
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02/24/06
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Blog Post from
Attapeu // Attapeu // Laos (PDR)
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Can’t Get There From Here
The most magical light in Laos lives on the Bolevan Plateau. For some reason not many tourists seem to make it out to the Bolevan Plateau, in spite of the fact that the roads are quite good, transport runs regularly, the villages peaceful, relaxed, even sleepy, little hamlets, a rarely used word that fits exactly what I mean. All in …
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Topics:
Asia,
Honda Dream,
Light,
Round The World Trip,
Sunsets,
Uxo
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12/17/05
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Blog Post from
Sarangkot // Pokhara // Nepal
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Sunset Over the Himalayas
It was around four in the evening when I walked down to the lakeshore with the intention of renting a boat. I had spent the morning and early afternoon walking the streets of Lakeside looking up at the soaring peaks of the Annapurna Range and stopping in at some of the dozens of nearly identical curio and fabric stores, occasionally …
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Topics:
Asia,
Boats,
Children,
Himalayas,
Mountains,
Round The World Trip,
Sunsets
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11/01/05
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Blog Post from
Rue de Archives // Paris // France
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The Houses We Live In
I’ve been thinking the last couple of days about something Bill’s dad said to me before I left. I’m paraphrasing here since I don’t remember the exact phrasing he used, but something to the effect of “people are essentially the same everywhere, they just build their houses differently.” Mr. Bill is widely traveled from his time in the Air Force …
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Topics:
Architecture,
Culture,
Europe,
Round The World Trip,
Sunsets