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Adventures of a GoodMan is my answer to the age-old question: I traveled...now what? In it, I blend digital photographic art with stories chronicling my journeys abroad and at home.
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Sri Lanka: The Undiscovered Country
Located just off the southern coast of India, Sri Lanka is home to nearly 20 million citizens and has been an independent nation since 1947. Unfortunately, for almost as long as it has been a country, Sri Lanka has been caught up in a civil war. To super simplify the …
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Tagged Overview, Sri Lanka
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Getting Sri Lanka Around by Bus, Train and Three Wheelers
Getting around Sri Lanka is a bit tough, especially when you leave the bigger cities. The primary method of transportation is what can best be described as a public bus from 1981 with the remains of the same seats it was built with. There are luggage racks that hang from …
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Tagged Bus, taxi, Trails, Train, Trainsportation, tuk tuk
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Eating and Drinking…Two of My Favorite Things
The most popular dish in Sri Lanka is by far the rice and curry which consists of a giant plate of rice and a selection of veggies in small dishes that are dumped over the rice. The vegetables vary but usually include some combination of lentils, potatoes, cabbage, carrots, jack …
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Tagged Food, Kottu, Roti, Sri Lanka
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Sri Lankan People and Smiles Galore
Everywhere Carrie and I went in Sri Lanka we were greeted by smiles and cries of “hello!” The locals seemed genuinely excited to see us, as if they had only encountered a handful of foreigners in their lives. While I doubt this to be true, there are still few enough …
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White Skin? Then You Pay the Foreigner Price
Our book warned us but nothing could have prepared us for the great disparity between the local price and the foreigner price. Carrie and I have traveled a lot in this world and have become used to, if not accepting, of attempts to rip us off. Sure, they are frustrating …
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Tagged Frustrations, Prices, Scams, Sri Lanka
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That's Right R-2, We're Going to Dagoba
Dagobas. Aka, stupas. Every town has at least one. They can be a few inches high or rise above the tallest trees in the forest. No matter where one goes in Sri Lanka, it is impossible to miss these white domed structures that pepper the landscape. Depending on who you …
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Tagged Ancient Cities, Buddha, buddhism, Dagoba, Sri Lanka, Stupa, Temple
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Kandy Makes You Dandy
Our first stop in Sri Lanka was Kandy: the Buddhist and spiritual center of the country. This beautiful hillside town is most famous for the Temple of the Sacred Tooth, where a tooth of Buddha that was taken from his funeral pyre is stored. Pilgrims come from all over the …
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Rodney. No Post Title Can Sum Up This Man
Our time in Kandy was also marked by our experience with Rodney, the owner of our guesthouse. Rodney first found us at the Colombo train station, fresh off the plane and looking to head to Kandy. He was very nice and helped us buy our tickets, explained what the local …
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Our First Private Driver
The Ancient Cities are the ruined remains of the early kingdoms and capitals of Sri Lanka and some of the main attractions in the country. They are very spread out and tough to get to so, for the first time in the history of Carrie and my travels, we treated …
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Burning our Feet at the Ancient Cities of Sri Lanka
Every single place we visited in the Ancient Cities region was beautiful, unique, filled with dagobas and HOT! To begin with, as the ruins are all also spiritual centers, we had to remove our hats and shoes before entering any of them. This was especially painful as the sun was …
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The Hornets are Buzzing at Sigiriya
Sigiriya became the final stop on our Ancient Cities tour after we visited the front gate on our first day and were told we could only climb halfway up due to a hornet infestation atop the fortress. It seemed that some school kids threw rocks at their nests 10 days …
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Tagged Ancient Cities, Monastary, Scams, Sigiriya, Sri Lanka
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Sri Lanka: The Undiscovered Country – This and That
After just three weeks in Sri Lanka, Carrie and I have exhaust ed the options of traditional Sri Lankan food and are quite ready to explore the cuisine of Southeast Asia. We saw a woman who was just returning from having her hand amputated faint on a bus. Locals revived …
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Sri Lanka: The Undiscovered Country – Photos and Videos
I know I included a lot of photos in the posts this time, but check out the below ones too as there are tons of new ones. Or you could just go straight to the flickr gallery. All Videos for this section: And your moment of Zen…a sunset at Galle …
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