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Independent Travel
Reading my last post made me reflect on how vulnerable women can be traveling independently. Whether being followed in Rome eleven years ago by a guy who I’m sure preyed on tourists on the Spanish Steps to the guy in Istanbul who brazenly asked me for sex while I was walking back to my hotel. I understand why on a recent trip to Cairo the women rode separately in subway cars since the trains...
Sep 8th
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Free Travel Guide App
For a limited time, mTrip is offering their travel guide iPhone app for free. Each day this week a different list of cities will be offered.  http://www.tuaw.com/2011/09/06/mtrip-offers-free-iphone-travel-guides/
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Taxi Leaving for the Luxor Airport from the West Bank.
Jan 6th
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Lunch in Luxor We had our lunch from Flafel a small food cart located across from the Luxor Temple. For £1 (about 20¢) you have a choice of a pita with falafel, vegetables or potatoes. For another £1 we ordered a glass of pressed sugar cane juice from a shop next door.
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Table Tennis A behind the scene video of my Puppy Breath photo.
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December 2010
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Passport Photo
Taken for my passport when I was eight, I would use it two years later to visit the Philippines, in 1981, after my maternal grandfather suffered a heart attack. When I was two years old my grandfather came to live with us in Honolulu for a few months after my grandmother died but returned to Manila shortly after. He was homesick and grieving. In the short time we lived together we formed a...
Sep 14th
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All Writing is Travel Writing →
I’ve been thinking about using this tumblr site for my personal writing since, according to Philip Graham, all writing is travel writing. “I’ve come to the conclusion that all writing, whether non-fiction, fiction or poetry, is a type of travel writing, and that a reader experiences an imaginative or literary work as a form of travel. That experience, of course, is often interior: a journey...
Sep 10th
March 2010
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Ball Game This video post takes us back to November of 2008 where I had just finished teaching Miss Kim’s class with the education project manager. Afterward we walked over to Miss Kim’s home nearby. Miss Kim, a teacher in the village, kindly invited us for rice cake and tea. Outside her home are two of her children, who are students in her class, playing a ball game with the...
Mar 17th
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Moto Ride After looking at some of the videos I took in Cambodia, I decided to email my friends who live in Phnom Penh. I haven’t heard from them since around the first week of January since we greeted each other on New Year’s Day. With other friends like Thida, I haven’t communicated with her since my last day in Phnom Penh. I probably won’t receive a response for at...
Mar 12th
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Dancing in Koh Kong Each year the teachers and staff of the organization I worked with in Phnom Penh are treated to a weekend retreat usually at a sea side resort in Cambodia. I had the opportunity of meeting two of their main donors in Phnom Penh who were visiting from the U.S. and Australia. Days leading up to our retreat, the other teachers mentioned that they had gone to Sihanoukville the...
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