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Last Updated: Feb 3, 2012 - 6:54:20 PM |
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Asia
Visiting Narita and Tokyo
Narita Airport is a major hub airport for both Japan and all of the Asian Pacific rim. Hundreds of flights arrive and depart daily. We have flown here a number of times and on long layovers enjoy visiting both nearby Narita and the Tokyo metropolitan region.
Jan 29, 2012 - 7:50:54 PM
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India for Individuals
When I was a twenty-two, I was both naive and adventurous. I went to India, as I went everywhere in those days, neither for purpose nor pleasure but for experience. I was poor yet hardy. I traveled about northern India staying in cheap hostels, riding in 3rd class train cars and walking for hours through cow-crowded streets.
Dec 15, 2011 - 9:19:02 PM
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Tales from the Desert
Staring out at the blackened waters of the Persian Gulf from high atop our hotel room near old town Kuwait City. The sun has obviously set and we are free to go out on the streets and eat food. 8 more days of Ramadan await us and our daylight appetites.
Dec 1, 2011 - 8:01:38 PM
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Hanging out in the 'Desh
We leave for our trip to the Deep South with 38 other Bengalis. We are the only Western tourists on this trip - we will fly back because of the great distance and terrible delays that plague the river ways this time of year (usually fog related).
Oct 3, 2011 - 12:27:00 AM
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The High Life, Macleod Ganj
Now at about 8000 feet up in the Himalayas near Mcleod Ganj just outside of town at guest house; we will stay here 2 nights and then move further up into the Himalayas.
Sep 17, 2011 - 2:05:00 PM
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Asia
Squid on the Floor
At sunrise the buzz of motorbike traffic has not yet begun, and the street is oddly quiet. We come out of the alley and onto the sidewalk where shop owners are opening up and iced coffee vendors await their first customers.
Jul 1, 2011 - 2:23:13 PM
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Asia
Cherry Blossoms, Korea
Cherry blossom viewing in Korea is met with the same sort of enthusiastic hedonism that I've previously only encountered in American malls on Black Friday morning.
Jun 30, 2011 - 8:26:51 PM
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Asia
Musings from Mussoorie
There are some incidents that occur in your life, that change the way you look at things. Then there are some that just bounce off of you without a visible mark, but later those memories come back to you at the oddest hours of the day, and you realise that they did in fact, leave a mark - they left one deep within your soul.
Jun 30, 2011 - 8:45:31 AM
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Still Alive
I'm learning to read his jaw. Sometimes I lose the language in his translations, but his jaw telegraphs the unspeakable.
But, tonight, I can't see it. We're facing each other, squaring off in the shadows over outdoor vanilla sundaes laced with crisp kiwis and strawberries, arguing about whether I should accompany him to pick up his food rations from the United Nations.
Jun 29, 2011 - 9:21:20 PM
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Tongue-Tied
The one I want to wrap in my arms and bring home is Nebras.
I didn't even know her name when I return to Iraq, shortly after the assault on Baghdad. I am armed only with a photo of a beggar touching her nose with her tongue.
Jun 28, 2011 - 8:24:10 PM
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