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Mad Hatters – The Kentucky Derby
Where am I? From a fashion perspective, it looks like Park Ave., but there are no sky scrapers. A vendor walks by with 3 dozen mint juleps in his ‘Ice Box’ crate; I smell an odor of horses and cigars. For one brief day, this town is the queen of the [...]
Photo of the Week – Mongolia
Gobi Desert Trifecta
I am in Louisville this weekend for the Kentucky Derby so thought I would choose one of my favorite horse photos from Mongolia – the land where horses roam free. We were driving through the Gobi Desert when we came across a pack of horses near a well. The wind howled across the [...]
Kathmandu Photography – Pigeons
Venice thinks that it has the corner on the market when it comes to pigeons, but don’t discount Kathmandu’s pigeon population! They were everywhere, intermingled with each other, people, and of course the holy cows!
Photo of the Week – Mongolia
Gobi Desert – Mongolia
Grazing Goats
I chose this photo this week in order to bring more visibility to the current state of emergency in Mongolia. There are a lot of weather disasters happening around the globe right now, and Mongolia is no exception. The extreme cold weather has been the cause of death to 1.7 million [...]
A Mouse in My House
Tiger Balm Tales vol. 11
Day 10 – A Mouse in My House
After 10 days of decreasing temperatures and increasing wind my body is rebelling. My lips have become as dry as the Gobi Desert , my nasal passages feel like hard booger craters have invaded it, and my hands are so dry they look [...]
Gobi Desert Landscapes – Mongolia
“We all live under the same sky but we don’t have the same horizon” – Konrad Adenauer
Isolation
I have been to about 90% of Asia and there’s one things that hold constant among all Asian countries; population density. There are so many people in Asia, it’s mind boggling. This population density contributes to why Asians aren’t [...]
Video of the Week – August 25, 2009
To Queue or not to Queue…a heated subject in Asia!
While in Mongolia I was able to test a theory of mine:
Queues don’t exist in Asia
I thought I was on the right track to proving it when I arrived at the Ulanbatar airport and saw the immigration ‘free for all’. A small room with a hundred [...]
Transportation – Getting from Ger to Ger
During my Gobi Desert travels I experienced all sorts transportation; some more enjoyable than others. True to the Ger to Ger vision, we mainly traveled as the locals did unless we had really far distances to cover. I found the whole experience fascinating as some of the old nomadic ways of travel had evolved into [...]
The ‘D’ Word
I started my morning screaming at people today. Granted I’m not a morning person, that’s no secret, but I don’t normally scream at people. Sure, I think it – but it seldom comes out.
“Get off the f’ing sidewalk!!” I believe is what escaped my lips with some really pissed-off arm gestures accompanying the words. This [...]
You will never believe it…
Note to self…
Always, always, always take a camera with you when you walk out the door. It is a certainly that you will wish you had it at some point in the journey outside my apartment!!
Why do I have to learn this lesson over and over again? Today was the final straw…I had this “I [...]
Learning How to Remove Leaches
Dhal Bhat Days – Vol 3
8/31/08
Snapshots from this day of the journey can be found here!
Photography from Nepalese Villages – click here!
Today I arrived at the village of Puma where I will be staying for 2 weeks. It’s pretty much what I thought it would be in my ‘prepare for the worst’ expectations. Yet I [...]
Traveling Circus – An Endangered Species
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As a kid, I never saw a circus. I skipped right from playing circus games/acts with my older brother in our front yard (which landed me in the emergency room), straight to Vegas and seeing Cirque de [...]
Animal Encounters Of The Hoofed Kind
Photo: Buffalo lounging in the prairie grass
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Click here to see all of the snapshots of our animal encounters, Mt. Rushmore, and hiking.
The signs were everywhere. In Pierre, along the interstate, near Rapid City, in small towns…the silhouette of a buffalo and some scripted writing with [...]
Feline Visitation Rights
Photo: Since I’m in the process of selling off all of my posessions, my friend Linda sent this photo to me as a joke!
I used to say that my cat, Palucci, had love for only one person; that person used to be me. However, when I decided to do my long term travel last year [...]
Road Trippin USA – Vol. 5
Lexington, KY to Franklin, TN Bluegrass Country
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Today we spent time exploring Bluegrass country. The grass really isn’t blue – but it’s called bluegrass…go figure. I do have an explanation though – in the spring, bluegrass produces a bluish-purple bud that, when [...]
Budget Tokyo
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Since I only had 4 days in Tokyo, and little money left for traveling, I had a challenge – how do you stay in Tokyo on a budget. After months of living a simple life – I think I was up to the challenge. The first big accomplishment was finding [...]
Yak-i-ty Yak – Shangri-la
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Before coming to Southwest China, my sister and I were out one night with some of her Singapore friends and they wanted to know where we were going on our pending trip to Yunnan. We rattled off a few places including Shangri-la. There was an immediate [...]
