An American Abroad
We hired Hoi An Motorbike Adventures to lead us on a five-hour ride through the countryside surrounding Hoi An. They provided us with Tony the tour guide and an 80's-vintage Minsk motorcycle. The mighty Minsk has an interesting history. It … [Continue reading]
These photos will look a lot better if you click on each one and view it without the white borders of my blog. I think now that I'm going to have to write a book, because Spencer took the perfect dust … [Continue reading]
I rendezvoused with Spencer in Ho Chi Minh City and together we flew directly to Hoi An, a charming town midway up the Vietnamese coast. The oldest part of Hoi An is a UNESCO World Heritage site with a beautifully preserved mix of French, Japanese, … [Continue reading]
Goodbyes are hard. I tend to make them brief and not to linger. In the last week of June, I said farewell to many good people. I can't list them all here, but I do have photos to remember some of them by. I'll miss Rachel for her spirit, her … [Continue reading]
"Where were you?" I asked one of my students in class, looking for an answer along the lines of "I was at the park." But Paul is a fearless and precocious kid. With him it went like this: Me: Where have you been? Paul: I was in the sky. Me: … [Continue reading]
Kuala Lumpur has the kind of mix I love. There are gleaming new buildings and many well-preserved older ones as well. There's a mix of religions and ethnicities, most notably Malays, Chinese, and Indians. I felt some tension among those groups, but … [Continue reading]
The Brickfields district of Kuala Lumpur is a primarily Indian neighborhood. Given my enthusiasm for Indian food, I couldn't stay away. I was happy to find this little back alley shrine to Ganesh, my fav … [Continue reading]
Most of the graffiti I've seen in China has been the mobile phone numbers of people selling stuff. I hardly realized how much I missed the real thing til I saw all of this in Kuala Lumpur. There are a lot of Utah Ether tags there -- too many, really … [Continue reading]
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