August 5, 2012 in Asia, Laos, Travelogue
Travel is one long lesson in patience, punctuated with epic highs, undergirded by the unavoidable lows. The “ferry” crossing the Mekong, at Champasak, is of questionable safety. “It occurs to […]
August 5, 2012 in Asia, Laos, Travelogue
We love a good boat ride. The children were delighted to clamber aboard a riverboat and slip out into the fast moving current of the Mekong River at Paske. It […]
August 3, 2012 in Asia, Laos, Travelogue
Champasak Palace was built by Jao Boon Oum, the last king of Laos. Unfortunately, he wasn’t able to see it finished, as he fled to France in 1975. It is […]
August 1, 2012 in Asia, Laos, Travelogue, Vietnam
It’s never good to start a day with the realization that two iPods have been stolen. One from each hotel room. It’s even less good to have that realization on […]
July 31, 2012 in Asia, Travelogue, Vietnam
I’ll never again consider rice in the neutral palate of colours. My experience with the grain until now has been in it’s dead and nutritional form, dry and opaque in […]
July 30, 2012 in Asia, Travelogue, Vietnam
Mopeds zoom past on all sides, going in every direction. Mom shrieks intermittently and squeezes her eyes tightly shut. Ezra is sitting bolt upright, staring with wide eyes as a […]
July 28, 2012 in Asia, Travelogue, Vietnam
Every now and then the epic nature of our existence strikes me. The sheer wonder that we’ve coalesced out of parts of the universe to live and breathe for a […]
July 27, 2012 in Asia, Travelogue, Vietnam
Have I mentioned that Hanoi is hot? We’ve sweat more in the past two days than perhaps in our entire lives to this point combined. Rivers of salt water run […]
July 26, 2012 in Asia, Travelogue, Vietnam
The creak and pull of oars is a sound that settles my soul. Perhaps it is because I grew up in boats. Perhaps it’s just the ceaseless rhythm that beats […]
July 25, 2012 in Asia, Travelogue, Vietnam
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be […]
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