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• Bangkok, Cambodia, headaches, less food-related, road trippin', Thailand, 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 [...]

  

• animals, entrees, headaches, Thailand, travel

  Promises and Pachydermal Proboscides

  02.14.10 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Throughout my few years of travel, I’ve learned a lot of interesting things: pineapples grow in the ground. Smile innocently at your waiter in Italy and you’ll get free drinks whether you wanted them or not. In the Costa Rican forest, that huge thing you think is a tree is technically a vine. Jaguars will [...]

  

• headaches, less food-related, musings, unruly chefs

  Breaking Out My Finest Liberty

  09.24.09 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Like my personal life, I generally don’t like to air my political beliefs. But here I go, making exceptions again, because really, is there anything more infuriating than Sarah Palin? No. Apparently she was just on my continent, in Hong Kong to be exact, to give a speech at an Investor’s Forum. Because obviously Palin’s [...]

  

• headaches, huzhou

  The Gospel of Nikon

  09.14.09 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  Now a certain camera was ill, Nikon of Huzhou, the village of ellis and her blog Plate of Wander. It was ellis whose Nikon had been saturated in the 2009 Flood of Apartment 605. So ellis went to her minder and miracle-worker Violet saying “Violet, he whom I love is ill at your hand.” But [...]

  

• headaches, housecleaning, huzhou

  I Will Destroy Them With the Earth

  09.10.09 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  The first thing I noticed when I woke up at 1:40 am was the absence of the soothing hum of the air conditioner. Though the nights here have been turning cool, my sixth-floor apartment stays pretty warm, so at night I turn on the air conditioner. The fact that it was off meant the power [...]

  

• chicken, headaches, huzhou, less food-related, musings

  Lysol on the Soles of Her Shoes

  08.21.09 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  Much as I enjoy living in China, there are things that continue to ‘get to’ me. Like, say, the traffic: the blatant, widespread disregard for red means stop, green means go; the whole idea of ‘right of way,’ ‘yield to pedestrians,’ or, for that matter, ‘yield.’ There is not only a manifest ambivalence for traffic [...]

  

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