the Nam Ou As lovely as Luang Prabang was, I was curious to see other parts of Laos. And so I ended up getting up and dawn one morning and dragging Janelle from her hot showers and bacon-stuffed baguettes to the boat dock on the Mekong. We were going to go up the river. A…
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Adventures in Asia, Part 3: Luang Prabang, Laos
un chat Lao Well, at the rate I’m writing, it will take me as long to write about Southeast Asia as it took to actually see it. The problem of returning to everyday life after a break is that there are actually things you need to do, deadlines to meet, and, most annoyingly, jet lag…
Adventures in Asia, Part 2: Pai, Thailand
street scene in Pai From Chiang Mai, we took a bus trip to the scenic little town of Pai. We took a rickity old bus where we got the extra-cramped seats in front of the rear door, which were several inches shorter than the rest. The bus driver laughed when came to collect our tickets…
across southeast asia in Chuck Taylors
Over the past month, I visited four countries — including two of the last five communist states — and got around by train, car, bus, subway, skytrain, longtail boat, speedboat, fishing boat, tuk-tuk, song thaew, car taxi, motorcycle taxi, jet, scary third-world propellor airplane, and foot…. I wrote extensively in my travel journal and took lots of pictures, and my plan is to use those to post a few different articles about the places I saw and things I did, though it might be a couple of days before I get started (I have a lot of emails and sleep to get caught up on).
only two more sleeps
30L carryon-sized travel backpack canvas messenger bag one pair convertable cotton pants, khaki one pair shorts, light grey one t-shirt, brown one polo shirt, orange one hooded sweatshirt, brown one pair sandals one pair Chuck Taylors Converse sneakers, black three pairs of boxer shorts underwear (one with monkeys) three pairs of socks one pair of…