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Snow, Rain and More Americana on Route 66 in New Mexico and Arizona – This and That
New Mexico When I was in Santa Fe, New Mexico, it actually snowed. But not like back home with big flakes. These were small round balls: almost like hail, but not hail. On Sunday, the south is closed. I think I’m the only person who drives through the desert and …
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British GPS’, 50ozs of Coke, Budweiser Brewery Tours and Other Observations
Due to a silly law that any car 1995 or older must be inspected in the city it is registered in, I had to drive back to New York City for an inspection instead of heading directly to Washington, DC to begin my trip. No big deal, but it was …
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Portuguese Streets, Beautiful Buildings and a Lady Gaga Concert in Macau
Located an hour boat ride from Hong Kong, Macau is a completely separate country that feels like a mix between Portugal and Asia. We were originally unsure if we would even go, but after seeing a sign for a Lady Gaga concert at the Venetian hotel and casino we decided …
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Wrapping Up Our Trip in Hong Kong and Macau – This and That
Money in Hong Kong is very weird, with multiple versions of each bill issued by separate banks. At one point I had five different Hong Kong 20 dollar bills in my wallet. The sign next to the line for Hong Kong immigration at the airport read, “Welcome to Hong Kong: …
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Posted in Cities, Hong Kong and Macau, Macau is filled with Portuguese Streets, Beautiful Buildings and Lady Gaga, Observations, Skylines, Racial Tension, Buddha Statues and Good Friends in Hong Kong, This & That - Musings From the Road
Tagged Asia, Hong Kong and Macau, India & Southeast Asia, This and That
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Wrapping Up the Trip – Some Final Thoughts
Some quick stats from the trip… Away for 8.5 months or 250 days or 6000 hours or 360,000 minutes Visited 13 countries Took 15 plane rides Needed five visas (India, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Indonesia) Spent the Most Time In: India (92 days) … Second place: Thailand (45 days) Spent the …
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Chasing the Naked Thai Thief and Other Thailand Tales – This and That
It feels right to be back in a country where people drive on the left side of the road. After Vietnam, it was a nice change to be back in Thailand where everyone is nice…even the shopkeepers. Shortly after our return I asked a cop for directions and he wrote …
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Goodnight and Goodbye Vietnam – This and That
Everyone on the bus back from Sapa had one of the bracelets the local women give you to mark their territory. On the Halong Bay tour Carrie and I got inked by a squid about to be cooked. The women on the Sapa trek complained that we spent too much …
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Posted in Goodnight...And Goodbye, VietNam, Observations, This & That - Musings From the Road, Vietnam
Tagged Halong Bay, Hanoi, Hue, Sa Pa, Sapa, This and That, Vietnam
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Good Morning Vietnam – This and That
Why is it that it can be cold outside, but still 100 degrees in my hotel room? It pretty much rained every day at least a little. Our second night in Ho Chi Min we were trapped in our guesthouse at 9pm when the old lady who runs it went …
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Angkor Wat, Shin Deep Mud and the Killing Fields of Cambodia – This and That
I am obsessed with the way ice is delivered. Every day, a truck or van or bike comes by with a giant block of ice. Street vendors, restaurants and individuals come up, tell the ice man how much they want and he proceeds to saw it off with a rusty …
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Jungle Treks, Cooking Classes and Meditating at a Monastery – This and That
One of the many things that kept us awake and laughing during our night at the local village on our jungle trek was a cat in heat who meow’ed loud and often…especially when it thought the two-stringed instrument Mr. Ton was playing was another cat and would reply to every …
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The Full Moon Party: The Biggest and Best Party in the World – This and That
People in costumes everywhere Our train ride from the Thai border to Surat Thani may have been the buggiest ever. At one point or another we must have had every single type of insect known to man fly, fall or land on us. A guy walking down the aisle of …
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Malaysia and Singapore: Two Countries that Might As Well Be One – This and That
Malaysia I saw a Muslim woman snorkeling with a full burka on We saw the final episode of American Idol in a hotel room in Melaka. This marks the third final I’ve ever seen…once in Panama, once traveling back from Nicaragua in 2007 and now this one. I have no …
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Posted in Entrapment Towers, Breaking the World's Largest Flower, Bedbugs and Finding Nemo Scuba Diving in Malaysia, Malaysia, Observations, Singapore, Singapore: A Fine Country...Where I had Self-Diagnosed Swine Flu, SouthEast Asia, This & That - Musings From the Road
Tagged Malaysia, Singapore, This and That
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Bail Hais and Bali Lows: This and That
I didn’t notice until I had to pay $50 at the Bali airport to get a visa, but the women at our Phuket hotel totally robbed me. I had 2 $20s, a $10 and a $1 in my wallet that they replaced with 4 $1 bills. I even looked into …
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Living it Up in Southern Thailand…This and That
On our last night in Bangkok, I ate a fried grasshopper. We saw the end of a series of regatta boat races in Krabi. The price difference between an air conditioned room and a non-AC room is usually so small that we have just been treating ourselves. After trying to …
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The Streets of Bangkok: Water Fights, Civil Unrest and The Worst Place We’ve Ever Stayed…This and That
Not sure what we did to deserve it, but our flight from Sri Lanka to Chennai (the first of 3 flights to get to Bangkok) was upgraded to first class. It was awesome! The best pad thai I had was from a little old woman with a street stall who …
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Sri Lanka: The Undiscovered Country: Part II – This and That
The fans that hang from the ceilings in our guesthouses are often terrifying. As they spin the entire fan and ceiling shakes and we just lay there wondering if this is the night that one finally breaks off and comes down into the bed with us. While walking down a …
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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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Posted in India, Lots 'o Travel Snapshots, Photography, Two Weeks of Manual Labor, Communal Living, Gold Meditation Domes and Reforestation at Sadhana Forest, Videos and Multimedia
Tagged Auroville, India, Lots 'o Travel Snapshots, Multimedia, Photos, Sadhana Forest, Tamil Nadu, This and That, Videos, YouTube
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Finishing Up the North: This and That
All trains have a ladies only car that even the male companion can’t get into. Many ticket windows also have a ladies only line. There are 3 brands of bottled water that contain more than 100x the EU acceptable levels of pesticide. We avoid them at all costs. We encounter …
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