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road trippin'

• Kuala Lumpur, Malacca, Malaysia, cake, dessert, entrees, fish, road trippin', travel

  Canons of KL

  04.21.10 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  Dear Blogger’s Block,
  You are harder to lose than the last few pounds from the Malaysia trip—you know, the one I’m trying to write about. The one you’re prohibiting me from writing about by completely overstaying your welcome.
  I expect you to come when Huzhou life has reached its predictable static lull, when life is nothing but [...]

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• Kuala Lumpur, Malacca, Malaysia, entrees, mysterious ingredients, out and about, restaurants, road trippin', travel

  Digestive Default

  04.09.10 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  One of the pleasures of traveling is returning to a place for a second time. The Local Way is no longer a grand mystery, and the place is likely not yet so familiar that The Local Way becomes the norm. So stepping off the plane in Kuala Lumpur, I felt just a little bit superior, [...]

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• Bangkok, Cambodia, Thailand, headaches, less food-related, road trippin', travel

  East of the Border, South of the Sun

  02.16.10 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  “The train to Bangkok is never late,” he promised.
  Of course we were the ones who decided to take the risk of buying tickets for a bus that left 90 minutes after our train arrived in Bangkok. But we had read a lot about crossing from Thailand to Cambodia over land, and it didn’t sound [...]

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• Jeju, Korea, Parks, entrees, mysterious ingredients, out and about, road trippin', temples, travel

  Kimchi Invasion

  10.22.09 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  When I was in seventh grade, some of my teachers put together a Europe trip for students that covered something like eight countries in twelve days (though why anyone would want to take a gaggle of twelve- and thirteen-year olds anywhere is beyond me). I, being me, was dying to go. My parents, being logical [...]

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• Gerald, entrees, mysterious ingredients, out and about, restaurants, road trippin', travel

  Culinary Perversion

  02.06.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  On our last day in Sanya, Gerald and I finally discovered a bit of natural beauty. (Note to the Chinese government and my brotha HJT: Rectify this as soon as possible. If it’s not developed, it ain’t makin’ you no money, honey)

  We walked along the beach past where it appeared to end and found a [...]

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• Gerald, entrees, out and about, road trippin', travel

  Mother Nature Gets a Face Lift

  01.30.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Though Gerald and I pride ourselves on not being ‘tourists,’ and sometimes we like to get a little snooty about doing ‘touristy’ things, during our first full day in Sanya, we had a little touristy business to get out of the way: we wanted to go to the end of the world.

  So we hopped the [...]

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• Gerald, entrees, out and about, restaurants, road trippin', travel

  More Kick for Your Kuai

  01.26.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  After a bit of midnight bargaining with a local Haikou driver, Gerald and I sat in the back of this Mr. Pan’s car waiting to be driven for our hostel. We had just arrived in Haikou and just wanted to get to bed. But Mr. Pan had other ideas. Since we had bargained so well [...]

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• Gerald, Parks, animals, entrees, fish, holidays, out and about, road trippin', travel

  Park It

  01.22.09 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  For our second day in Haikou, Gerald and I decided to do some walking.
  But first, breakfast.

  We took the bus to Haikou Park to check it out. I love parks in China because there’s always stuff going on and there are always people around. It’s not like parks in America, where there are a few people [...]

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• Gerald, chicken, entrees, holidays, out and about, road trippin', travel

  Go South, Young (Wo)Man

  01.14.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  In my opinion, there are two injustices in this world: calories and winter. Why can’t we just eat as much as we want without suffering the physical consequences? And why can’t we do so wearing flip-flops and t-shirts year-round?

  Winter is, at least in theory, escapable, while calories are not (though I’m sure the Splenda lab [...]

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• less food-related, out and about, road trippin', travel

  And So On

  11.26.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Since it was TJ’s turn to baby-sit at the International Training Center (where, I am informed, the main function of our untrained, inexperienced foreigner presence is to attract parents and thus more money), I was free to travel this weekend. [And I’d just like to clarify that the reason that the aforementioned descent into elementary [...]

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