In late April I made a post about common sights in southeast Asia. I even started, but never completed, a follow-up. But after 6 weeks and 2 days in India it seems time for an Indian edition.
This is a country where driving requires honking. This isn’t to say that there is always a reason to [...]
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this is normal – indian edition
Free Tibet
While certainly a complicated issue, a few things are very simple.
1. Tibetans, most notably His Holiness the Dalai Lama, must live in exile in order to be free.
2. Many, many Tibetans flee, on foot (1 week – 2 months, over mountains and through extreme cold), to reach freedom.
3. China has not “liberated” Tibet at all, [...]
farm life
It’s hard to believe that we have left the farm, said goodbye to all the amazing people – friends – and are now working our way northward. We came to the farm for a two week stay; we didn’t leave for over 3 weeks (and not until after we made our friend who was visiting [...]
Kap kun kaah south east Asia, namaste India
Today marks our last day in south east Asia, in Bangkok, Thailand specifically, where we’ve been the last two weeks sorting out our visa and travel arrangements to go to India.
I think I speak for both me and jft when I say we are feeling a little morose about leaving south east Asia behind. We’ve [...]
“No business, no rice.”
I’ve known for many, many years — probably since I was a child — that rice is a staple of the Asian diet. It was just like that, a simple, bare and almost uninteresting fact, rice is a staple of the Asian diet. However, since jft and I have immersed ourselves in Asian culture and [...]
a photo update
OK, so I was thinking I’d be making some more posts from Bangkok about our adventures through Southeast Asia. I’ve got a post started that’s a follow-up to “this is normal,” and I’ve even got notes for a post about Mexican food in Chicago (some travelers we met are headed that way, so that got [...]
back in bangkok
So we’re back in Bangkok, Thailand, after nearly 3 months around Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. It’s hard to believe that we’ve been on the road four months already. We’ll be here for a bit so we can finally check out the big city, as well as a few surrounding places like the Bridge Over [...]
