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Cambodia Travels
Cambodia April 30 – May 5, 2006 Phnom Penh Angkor The Road to Thailand Cambodia was so hot and humid that I could barely drink enough water to keep up with my sweat. It’s like it was raining, but the rain was coming from inside of me instead of the outside. The humidity of an …
Chinese Bathhouse
BIRTHDAY SUIT January 2006 My favorite line in E.M. Forster’s novel, A Room With a View, is when Freddy greets his new neighbor, Emerson, by saying, “How d’ye do? Come and have a bathe.” Another character present chuckles over the absurdity of such a greeting, but nevertheless, they all go traipsing off to a nearby …
Panama Travels
Panama July 2007 Panama City Boquete Bocas Del Torro
Central American Travel Photos
Central American Travels July 2007 Panama Costa Rica Zac and I have had more than our fair share of travels in foreign countries, but this trip seemed different. It was the first time that it really felt like a vacation in the traditional sense—an escape from the humdrum routine of life as working adults (if …
Costa Rica Travels
Costa Rica July 2007 San Jose Monte Verde La Fortuna (Arenal) Playa Hermosa Alajuela (epilogue)
XINGHAI SQUARE
XINGHAI SQUARE AND BEACH Xinghai Square is the “largest square in Asia” Beer Festival Click here for photos from the beer festival held in Xinghai Square
Vang Vieng
Laos: Vang Vieng May 13-15, 2006 We arrived at Vang Vieng in the afternoon, and as we were eating lunch, we noticed some rockets and explosions in the distance. After eating, we headed upstream to see what was going on. What we found was a local festival. There were all these villagers, with canisters of …
Boat to Luang Prabang
Laos: Boat to Luang Prabang on the Mekong River May 10-11, 2006 We spent the night in Chiang Khong, on the Thai side of the river, and early the next morning, took a little motorized wooden ferry over the river and crossed into Laos. From there, we took a river boat down the Mekong River …
Vientiene
Laos: Vientiene May 15-16, 2006 We rode to Vientiene on a “chicken & vegetable bus” (the local bus) that left at 5:50 a.m. Sera sat next to a chicken picking up more vegetables interior of the bus unloading the bus at the market local market in Vientiene selling traditional medicine Vientiene is the laid-back capital …
HCMC (Saigon)
VIETNAM: HO CHI MINH CITY (SAIGON) April 28-30, 2006 April 30th was our last day in Vietnam. It was somehow appropriate, I suppose, that we left Saigon exactly 31 years to the day after the city fell, or was liberated (depends on who you ask) to the communist Viet Cong. The whole time we’d been traveling through …