Today was the last trip through a strange place on my journey. Kom Obo, Egypt was another non-descript, poor, dusty, but still fascinating village I traveled through on my way back to civilization. I spent my last night on a felluca boat down the Nile...
Losing faith in human kindness is terrible to witness...
Since I was a child, popular culture has led me to believe that the British society was somehow superior to my meager American one. Television, movies, books, radio, all of them depict the Brits, especially the professional men, as orderly, efficient, controlled people usually above...
Does the simple act of donning a backpack make you more likely to see your friends anywhere?...
Will the advent of the digital camera kill the silver-based photography market?...
Just spent the afternoon and evening watching Hollywood-produced films. Could the Avengers have sucked more? Lethal Weapon 4, however, lived up to my expectations and made me smile. Welcome back to the civilized world. Movies cost ten bucks here.I've been here a week. I've been...
The internet cafe is the lemondade stand of the late 1990's. They can be found nearly everywhere in the world, and with a great variety of capabilities: from one-PC outposts in Indonesia, to twenty-terminal full-service posh pads in Beijing, I've visited cafes where the only...
China. Land of mysterious culture. Most populated country on earth. Home to mountain tribes, dissident provinces, mighty rivers, ancient traditions. Nation of frequent and radical political uprising and change. China has all this to offer.Instead of exploring all that, I went to Beijing.Beijing is not...
I first heard about Mama Hahn from two travelers in Koh Phi Phi Thailand. I hadn't even planned on going to Vietnam, but after a discussion with these two Australians, and their glowing report about Mama Hahn, coupled with their reported ease of travel in...
In 1966 I was six years old, and just beginning to understand things going on around me. I grew up in a sleepy bedroom neighborhood surrounded by apple orchards and lightly tangled forests, but every night the real world visited through the medium of television...