A (travel?) blog, of the mind and body – Wow… Deep!
Breakfast The morning started out with a good breakfast, and thanks to Google Translate, I managed to avoid all the foods that have MSG in them, also known as bột ngọt. They had an omelet station, a noodle station (MSG), fruit (papaya and dragon fruit) and a coffee bar. I had my first taste of …
There is a big difference between six US dollars and six hundred thousand Viet Dong… But it isn’t that much. One of the things the Lonely Planet guidebook on Vietnam will tell you is that scams at the Taxi stand at the Vietnam airport abound. They will run fast meters. They will take you to …
I have the wonderful opportunity to travel to a place that I never thought I’d be able to go to, and that’s Vietnam. Here is a multipart set of posts of my travels there… and back. It starts with a trip to Dulles Airport. Home of all sorts of cool technology, and old technology like …
You can hope and dream all you want. But until you actually sit down and do it, no reality will come of your dreams. I once started a travel blog, and then…. Oh my… branding and life and perfection and time… all got in the way of just doing it. So I find myself literally …
The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion. It was a Brazilian author Paulo Coelho who coined those words. Committed to an insane asylum when he was 17 only to be let out 3 years and 3 escapes later. Was he thinking too differently? Was he ahead of his time like Einstein, …
I’ll be the first to admit that one of the first things I did on the Internet when I got on it in the early 90’s was to find someone… ANYONE who could give me the recipe to the Captain’s Steak House Fondue. I’m quite certain a Dan Brown novel could be written about the secrets …
I’ve been living in this house for a while, and realized the first year that running up and down the stairs to deliver halloween candy to the front door was quite bothersome. Tossing candy out the second floor french doors was fun, but the kids who got hit in the face didn’t think so. I …
This is Part 7 of my trip to Nepal. If you missed the other parts you can find them here. Here in the US we talk water for granted. We have it piped into our homes, and piped out of our homes. As one of my friends, Liam, actually pointed out, we do a lot …
This is Part 6 of my trip to Nepal. If you missed the other parts you can find them here. It’s easy to get hungry when trekking around Kathmandu, and there certainly is plenty to eat. To keep your carbs up, there are carts rolling around the city selling… well, I don’t really know what …
This is Part 5 of my trip to Nepal. If you missed the other parts you can find them here. What happened on the first day I was there? I went walk about. I do this just about everywhere I go. One of my favorite times of a trip is walking around, sometimes with headphones, and …