Even if you have no plans to ride a bike or motorbike, or even attempt to cross a street without getting plowed in Cambodia, who knows, you might end up visiting Angkor Wat one day, which I highly recommend as one of the best cultural attractions in the world. Traffic in Cambodia is also kinda’…
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When people read some of my more seemingly irascible rants written about a topic like the travesty to the visual imagination that is the 100th anniversary of the Holy Grail that is Marcel Duchamp’s “Fountain”, and before the caffeine from my first sips of coffee have bathed my neurons, I wonder what sort of curmudgeon…
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After more than a decade living and traveling in S.E. Asia, I finally ventured to Penang, and what a discovery it was. My observations of the more special aspects of Penang are based as much on my brief visit as on my experience of other Asian countries: China, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Hong Kong, and…
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Outside of China, that is. Culture shock is going to happen between Chinese tourists and local Thais. At first I thought nothing of it. I’ve seen it thousands of times before. But then I realized I’d only seen it in China. There was a family across the street from me and the little boy (around…
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I wasn’t supposed to be in the pic.
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My initiation into Songkran (Thai “new year” and water “play” festival) this year was less than pleasant – a lot less. On reflection, it was “initiation by fire,” in terms of metaphor, but “by water” in reality. I was walking through a marketplace in Sukothai – which mercifully sees a fraction of the number of…
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