A FEW NOTES: Dumplings are delicious for breakfast, lunch and dinner. The older and shorter a Chinese woman is, the harder she will shove you out of her way. This theory includes, but is not limited to, old women in wheelchairs. Every Chinese city is the “Best” at something. As are Chinese museums, roads, trains …
Arrive
We landed in Beijing at 7:00 on Friday night, and even though I had sent the budget tour company the wrong arrival time, our guide met us anyway, a tiny young woman in the shouting airport throng, wearing a bright red hat and scarf and smiling a smile that took up most of her face. She …
Red Flags and Free Passes: China
Borneo: For Memories
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Borneo: Mysteries
We spent our second night in Brunei in “Sumbling Eco Village” in a tent along a muddy river in the jungle. The “village” was a clump of a few houses next to a quiet road populated mainly by silent men in soccer jerseys and a bunch of roosters, some of which were tied …
Borneo: Traveler’s Notes
We flew from Portland to San Francisco to Tokyo to Singapore to Bandar Seri Begawan, the capital city of Brunei. During the SFO-Singapore section our seats in the very back row jiggled like water balloons on a trampoline which led to some uncomfortable vomiting, but luckily Japan Airlines supplies plenty of barf bags. Traveler’s note: …
Borneo Trip Blog 2: What IS the point?
Hey look! A new blog. And I'll add photos when I figure out howthefuckhow. The boys and I are going to Borneo with our friends Ben and Ramona. My boys and Ben have been close friends since they met when they were about 4 and they started selling each other their old toys and gadgets. …
Borneo: Heading out
We booked rooms at the La Quinta near the airport the night before we left, not because our first flight was particularly early, but because we didn’t want to add any knots to the string of transports that needed to come together to get us all to Borneo. I stress, before we leave for trips. …
Air
Kingscote, South Australia, Australia Friday, August 19, 2016 Everybody knows that the basic premise of all writing, even travel blogging, is conflict. It is discomfort. Some real life examples: An old office-mate of Guy's kept a blog while he was riding his bike across the country wearing jean shorts. At the end of each …
Lemongrass
Siem Reap, Cambodia Monday, March 20, 2017 As my go-everywhere bag this trip, I brought a purse that belonged to my mom—a medium-sized, easy-to-clean, forest-green REI bag equipped with anything an intrepid traveler might need. Aside from the painful fact that whenever I catch sight of myself and this bag and my thick shoulders …
ICEBOX PLUMS: Moments, sweet and cold 