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04/30/06 // Blog Post from Moving Train // Ko Kradan // Thailand
Closing Time 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 … continue reading » Topics: Asia, Goodbyes, Round The World Trip, Trains
04/21/06 // Blog Post from Ko Kradan // Ko Kradan // Thailand
Beginning of the End 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 … continue reading » Topics: Asia, Boats, Friends, Islands, Round The World Trip
04/10/06 // Blog Post from Resort Koh Phi Phi // Koh Phi Phi // Thailand
Going Down South Matt and I spent one day by ourselves in Sinoukville and though we never spoke of it I thought it was pretty appropriate that when we went back to the beach shack with the good food they were closed. When … continue reading » Topics: Asia, Boats, Friends, Goodbyes, Islands, Round The World Trip
03/30/06 // Blog Post from Sinoukville // Sinoukville // Cambodia
The Book of Right On The mountaintops were shrouded in clouds and what could have been a view of the ocean was instead a sea of swirling white, misty moisture on our faces. There was an abundance of purple flowers stretching out from the back … continue reading » Topics: Asia, Goodbyes, River, Round The World Trip
03/26/06 // Blog Post from Death Island // Kampot // Cambodia
Midnight in a Perfect World I lounged for a while in the shallows letting the small waves lapped over my back while I studied the rock and shell bed that lay just under the surface of the waves, watching the stones and bits of shells … continue reading » Topics: Asia, Crabs, Death, Islands, Perfection, Phosphorescence, Round The World Trip
03/21/06 // Blog Post from Angkor Wat // Siem Reap // Cambodia
Angkor Wat At some point during the four days I was in Seam Reap I emailed on of my friends the following, which she found utterly hilarious: “I can honestly say I have never been this hot or even close to this … continue reading » Topics: Asia, Friends, Hot, Round The World Trip, Strangers, Temples
03/18/06 // Blog Post from Land Mine Museum // Siem Reap // Cambodia
…Wait ‘til it Blows From Battanbang we headed northeast by boat to Seam Reap. The journey was a tedious and very shallow one. The guidebook makes a passing mention of the fact that local villagers are not all that fond of the tourist ferry … continue reading » Topics: Americans, Asia, Boats, Round The World Trip, Uxo, War
03/16/06 // Blog Post from Battambang // Battambang // Cambodia
Beginning to See the Light I once wrote a novel which thankfully only one person has ever read in its entirety (thank you for suffering through it Rhiannon) and hopefully only one person will ever read. It’s a terrible novel (though I like to think … continue reading » Topics: Asia, Boats, Round The World Trip, Villages
03/14/06 // Blog Post from Killing Fields // Phnom Penh // Cambodia
Blood on the Tracks It was a fittingly dull grey overcast sky, remnants of the previous night’s thunderstorm which kept me up for an hour or more while I sat on the spare bed beneath the window watching the room light up like a … continue reading » Topics: Asia, Khmer Rouge, Killing Fields, Ngo, Round The World Trip, War
03/07/06 // Blog Post from Ban Lung // Ban Lung // Cambodia
Ticket To Ride I can’t see. My eyebrows are orange with dust. I cannot see them, but I know they must be; they were yesterday. Every now and then when her legs clench down on my hips or her fingernails dig into my … continue reading » Topics: Asia, Dreams, Hallucinations, Honda Dream, Memory, Round The World Trip
02/28/06 // Blog Post from Four Thousand Islands // Four Thousand Islands // Laos (PDR)
Little Corner of the World After my time in Attapeu I felt I had had my fill of the various small towns in southern Laos. Debi and Matt opted to head up to Salavan and then on to a small village called Tahoy, where rumor … continue reading » Topics: Americans, Asia, Islands, Mekong River, Rivers, Round The World Trip, Wat
02/24/06 // Blog Post from Attapeu // Attapeu // Laos (PDR)
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, … continue reading » Topics: Asia, Honda Dream, Light, Round The World Trip, Sunsets, Uxo
02/18/06 // Blog Post from Sekong Guesthouse // Sekong // Laos (PDR)
Safe as Milk Sekong was a nice little town with not much in it save the UXO museum, which took all of five minutes to explore. The peculiar thing about the UXO museum was… well, you would think, if you were the United … continue reading » Topics: Asia, Friends, Nasty Fish, Round The World Trip, Uxo
02/14/06 // Blog Post from Savannakhet Guesthouse // Savannakhet // Laos (PDR)
Everyday the Fourteenth If the water had been high enough we could have simply headed downstream from Konglor village and followed the Hin Bun River all the way to a small village where we could walk to route 13, the major north south … continue reading » Topics: Asia, Goodbyes, Holidays, Rivers, Round The World Trip, Waterfalls
02/10/06 // Blog Post from Ralph's Guesthouse // Hin Bun River // Laos (PDR)
Water Slides and Spirit Guides The quiet clatter of palm fronds in the evening breeze reminded me of Goa for a while, but soon, as the sun disappeared behind the western mountains, the similarities disappeared, the wind kicked up and the temperatures dropped dramatically, hinting … continue reading » Topics: Asia, Caves, Karst, Mountains, River, Round The World Trip, Villages

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