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Construction 24/7

During my first few months in HCMC I stayed in a guest house on and off for a few weeks at a time. The guesthouse was close to work, and next to tons of cheap eating places in the heart of the ‘backpacker’ district. However, with the good comes the bad…right? For $18 a night [...]

Over the Top

It has been a month and a half since I’ve gotten a pedicure. This is normally not how I operate; but when traveling you don’t really get to treat yourself to the pleasantries of foot care. I had a free weekend so I decided to venture out and find a place to do some massive [...]

Photo of the Week - 11/01/08

My first installment of the photo of the week! 

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Net-ti-quette

I made a big purchase today…my first motorbike helmet. I kind of feel like it is my first right of passage. Or maybe I should wait and label my first right of passage actually driving my own motorbike! No, that may need another title…like ‘Dumb Things I Do”. So for now – my helmet is [...]

Landslides and Local Buses

Dhal Bhat Days – Vol. 2
8/30/08
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Today was the day the surrender happened; surrendering to my new environment. I believe this to be the first surrender, I think there will be many more. I met my ‘guide’ Khadgo in the morning in Kathmandu and we set out to [...]

Electric Blankets and Chains - No, This Isn’t Porn

For all photos of Deqin and the Snow Mountain - click here!
For the 4 days we spent in and around Shangri-la we had the unique opportunity to experience the 4 seasons…one each day. The bad news is that my suitcase wasn’t really outfitted to experience the 4 seasons, and the Chinese concept of heating was [...]

Countdown to the SmOgLYMPICS!

Photo: Bird’s Nest Olympic Stadium surrounded by smog and construction
For all snapshots of the Olympic Buildings and smog - click here!
In less than a year the whole world will be introduced to China through their TV sets and a finely tuned production of the Olympics in Beijing. China, the largest populated country in the world [...]

Planes, Trains, and a Broken Down Automobile…

For the ‘best of’ Laos Photography - click here!
Note: The various photo documentaries will be in separate posts, so stay tuned on the site. The pictures you see in this post – well, these are the ones that didn’t make the ‘cut’…but I like them anyway!
I left Singapore on a photographic journey to head back [...]

A Functioning Anarchy; Driving in India

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Up until now, I used to think that Vietnam was the craziest traffic I had ever seen in my life. Well…move over Vietnam…enter India. I am absolutely positive that the word clusterfuck was created here by some Westerner riding in a taxi around Delhi. In my [...]

Swiss Roll

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For all snapshots of Interlaken and Zorbing - click here!
There used to be a brand of treats called Little Debbie (in the Midwest). I would always beg my mom to buy us Little Debbie Swiss Rolls. They were basically the [...]