''I Just Took Three Ambien and I Can't Lift My Arms''
Anyone who says ''ít's a small world,'' hasn't spent 12 hours flying across it over the Pacific in United Airlines coach. Actually, it wasn't that bad. They keep you full of crappy movies and wine so...
View ArticleDukkha, Samudaya, Nirodha, Magga
China put the kaibash on my blog and my gastrointestinal system, but nothing a little high-grade antibiotics and movement onto a more "meh..." communist country, Vietnam, couldn't cure. No restrictions...
View ArticleNostalgia
There are dates getting closer that I remember vividly from a year ago that day. I.e. September 30 last year, my birthday, I remember that day. October 30 last year. A Halloween party then with three...
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Article 21
Appropriately, after that last post, I can now begin uploading photos. A cathartic disclaimer that will turn out to be, no doubt. So here we begin; Ashton at night in San Fran. Just above Union Square,...
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Article 20
"Then, mistaking a group of garishly dressed men for pirates, Jason boarded a van full of homosexuals and joined their boat protest against the local yacht club." Well, not really. But here are some...
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Article 19
Jason says: "Any day is good enough for St. Patrick's Day! and I always get a partner to go along with me." Cat's a good sport.
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Kootchie Kooties
My man, them North Koreans got it easy. Granite tunnels six and a half feet tall and fresh air and water pumped in from the outside world. Nothing the likes in Cu Chi. I joshed about the Kootchie...
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Five Number One!
A lot to catch up on so lets take things back to where we left off... A 24 hour train ride from Hue in central Vietnam to Saigon. The picture above, by the way, is in New Delhi, India. We'll get...
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People Watching in Taormina
If you're just joining us, the big catch-up post is below this one. What we've got here are some classic People Watching: Taormina, features. Turns out that Taormina kinda sucks. Uber-Touristey-Cliche....
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Calcaterra Differente, ma, Calcaterra lo Stesso
The last 24-hour travel day just wrapped up; a bus from Leonforte, in Sicily, to Catania, a 12 hour train from Catania to Rome, a flight from Rome to Vienna, and a connection from Vienna to Frankfurt....
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Frankfurt, Paris, London; A Western European Trifecta
It's the final days. D-day - 5. Which makes me remember, we didnt get to Normandy. A tough loss that was. We wanted to go but it seemed tough to get around without being able to rent a car. Poor us,...
View ArticleStoppage Time
We're into stoppage time on this here voyage. D-1. Tomorrow at 4 or something we leave London for Newark and thus complete the Kung-Fu-Shaolin-Postmodern-Cirle-Of-Regeneration and return home...
View Article"Kiss me where it smells" she said
so I'm taking her to Hanoi.Sometimes I think it is odd that Ashton and I are leaving for the place with, or against, which our forebears defined their sliver of history -- Vietnam. In thirty years my...
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Zap
There are so many wires coiled around the telephone/electrical/who-knows-what-else poll outside my window on Hang Bong street in Hanoi that I feel like I will probably be electrocuted just looking at...
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Valentine's Day Edition
In the West we blithely associate Valentine's Day with Roman saints like Valentine of Terni - who suffered the mildest of martyrdoms when he was beneficently beaten and beheaded for providing free...
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Junior
Sources: Braves making late push for GriffeyIn news completely unrelated to anything remotely Vietnamese (which you should expect from time to time), the above headline greeted me when I signed onto...
View ArticleYou Know We're Not Hiring Murderers, Right?
Yeah, this is a weak Cam track but I still can't get it outta my head. "But I know I know it all/ but I follow protocol" Plus it woulda been my jam. Now it's Will's for standing tall at the bottom of...
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We Have Eaten Your Forest
It was in New Orleans, a week or so before I left for Hanoi, that I wandered into Crescent City Books and bought a copy of "We Have Eaten the Forest." It is an account by Georges Condominas who, at...
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Breast Milk
In Vietnamese, they're called Vu Sua - "milk from the breast." We sat at a little place down the street for lunch the other day and one of the guys working the spot brought us a Star Apple for dessert....
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