Posts Tagged with ‘Travel Reports’
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Reading Prague
22 May 2014Prague, as every traveler will tell you, is a wonderful town, full of surprises and visual delights. It is full of improbable…
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Jumping Puddles and Onrushing Bikes in Amsterdam
17 May 2014It’s said that we travel to open our eyes, stretch our minds. I wouldn’t have thought this to include adjusting…
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Canal Reading — In Amsterdam
13 May 2014The rain is pelting down as as I take my first steps around Amsterdam, the Venice of the North as some…
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Doing Desert
18 Apr 2014There is in Tecopa Hot Springs, California, on the flat top of a small hill, a labyrinth of stones. Unlike…
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Death Valley, Spring 2014, A Scent of Rain
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Down A River with 16 Paddles
17 Apr 2013I’ll be in an untethered state until June 10 floating, and sometimes cataracting, down the Colorado River through the Grand…
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Laotian Women Dig for US ‘Bombies’ — Still
06 Apr 2013A friend who has been following my recent trip to Southeast Asia, including a report from the COPE facility in Vientiane, Laos…
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Why Did They Kill? — An Anthropologist Looks at the Cambodian Genocide
02 Apr 2013Among the modern horrors of mass killings of non combatants, from the Holocaust on [or for many scholars from the…
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Saigon: Surprise and Sorrow
04 Mar 2013Saigon is a surprise and still a sorrow. 38 years after the American war ended it shows barely a sign…
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Laos and the Legacies of War
02 Mar 2013When the mind turns to South East Asia and war, Vietnam and Cambodia come quickly to mind. For most, Laos might…
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A Monkish Day, Luang Prabang, Laos
28 Feb 2013We woke at 5 a.m. yesterday morning to join others in Luang Prabang offering alms of sticky rice to the…
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Working the Mekong, Laos
27 Feb 2013We took a two hour motorized long-boat ride up the Mekong this morning. The first destination was an enormous cave…
