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July 7, 2010
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Asia, Experiences
My friend since grade 9, Jon has been living in Korea for the past two years teaching english and learning Korean. This gave me an excellent opportunity to visit a friend and see a place off the (western) tourist trail. South Korea is a country, like China, that would be painstaking to visit without speaking …
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April 5, 2010
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Experiences, Oceania
For those of you joining programming already in progress, this is one of my weblog entries. The purpose is to entertain, teach, update, share photos, and maintain lines of communication from across the earth. All That Glitters is Not Gold hey call the harsh desert of the Aussie interior the ‘red centre’.
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February 26, 2010
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Backyard, Experiences, Oceania
Greetings everyone. It’s been some time since my India updates, and even longer since my last Australia update. The great thing about moving to a crazy new continent is that the mundane becomes hyper-interesting. That’s true of travel in general, and one of the primary reasons I travel so much. But eventually the
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November 9, 2009
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Asia, Experiences
High Tea Our next destination was the northwestern Indian hill station city of Darjeeling, famous for the tea grown on sprawling plantations nearby, with gorgeous views of the Himalayas including the tallest and third tallest peaks on the planet. From Kathmandu our choice of transportation was a 17 hour bus ride along
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November 2, 2009
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Asia, Experiences
Watch Your Step Varanasi, once known as Benares, is an ancient, sacred city along the Ganges river. Hindus, Buddhists, and Jains all consider both the city and the river holy, and more than one million pilgrims visit it annually. It’s described as the oldest continually inhabited city in the world; Mark Twain
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October 24, 2009
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Asia, Experiences
Early Bird gets the Worm Most people go to Agra only to see the Taj Mahal, and maybe the Red Fort. They write off the town as a filthy hole full of touts and tacky souvenirs, but I had a fun day of random exploration in the old city bazaar I’d like to tell you …
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October 15, 2009
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Asia, Experiences
All the good martyrs are dead ou may have noticed photos from Amritsar’s Golden Temple, the holiest place for Sikhs. All Sikhs are expected to make a pilgrammage to the Temple once in their life, and volunteer for a week. There is an enormous hostel housing thousands of pilgrims (and a few tourists), a
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October 8, 2009
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Asia, Experiences
Coming from Canada, Dan arrived about a week before I did. Normally very eloquent, his single email prior to my arrival had some profane
exclamations about the place, without much detail. It piqued my interest and I couldn't wait to get here. Knowing how impossible his hotel would be to find, we arranged a place to
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August 31, 2009
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Backyard, Experiences, Oceania
Banking on Coincidences The credit card I hurried through in order to quickly buy my Macbook Pro sent my first statement last month. It had all my purchases on it, but a few oddities. Last time I checked my name wasn’t “Michael David Fuller”; and my card number wasn’t right. Australian banks
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July 22, 2009
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Asia, Experiences
I took my last breath of airconditioned Australian air as I prepared to disembark. (I already liked this country, since they used the correct verb ‘disembark’ instead of the outrageous Americanism ‘deplane’). I stepped out of the plane—onto the tarmac, of course—and filled my lungs with
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June 22, 2009
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Backyard, Experiences, Oceania
Light showers and 16˚C! What happened to perpetual summers? But we still managed to outdoor climb today, the winter solstice. And despite having no heating in the house, it's not an issue because I imported some secret weapons: a down vest and down booties.
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May 19, 2009
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Experiences, Oceania
I learned something the other week from my mining crew that was entirely unexpected. When some guys were being particularly sexist to a female truck driver that we rarely work with,
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