The mountains above Chiang Mai are lush and beautiful.
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I awake to the sound of a rooster signaling sunrise. As I peel my eyes open, there is no difference, the darkness identical beneath my eyelids as outside. I consider getting up to watch the sunrise, but my [...] Read more »
Light slips in through cracks, illuminating the longhouse provided for us in Karen.
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In the mountains outside the city of Chiang Mai lies a series of villages which are merely referred to as Ban Mai in Thai. To the people of these villages, our guide Samruam (Sam [...] Read more »
The sun sets over San Luis Beach in Guam as Denise floats in the warm water.
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I feel like I’ve entered the doldrums. It’s not as though opportunities don’t abound here, but rather that I simply haven’t found the motivation to commence.
I am inspired constantly. I find myself deep [...] Read more »
First of Many
Rows of coffin berths lie empty at Guam Veteran’s Cemetery, patiently awaiting their corpses.
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Hafa Adai, y’all.
With a whole lot of nothing transpiring the past few days, it’s time once again for news in brief: Read more »
The Last Supper (in Cebu)
Robbie, Roger, Denise, Bandit and Vickie wait to eat lunch.
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The more time I spend traveling with people, the more I’m glad I’m not married yet.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m still very much interested in settling down and having a family, but when traveling, [...] Read more »
The day I was born, my father wandered around the corner from the hospital and bought a teddy bear for me. Simply calling it a teddy bear doesn’t do it justice. The bear was built with a rectangular plastic pack in the center that, when connected to an 8-volt battery and turned on, would imitate [...] Read more »
I used to love waking up in the middle of the night. My eyes would creep open and I’d glace about my room, my imagination running wild. Every shadow was a new beast chasing me back under the covers. Quietly, music would try to coax me back to sleep from my small radio across the [...] Read more »
My week has been so full of strange strange things,
from Daylight Savings changes and no sleep
to opportunities in life’s upswing.
And so I look to take the next great leap.
Once again, Inquiring Minds was dumped
because of lack of guests, I hate to say.
I always seem to find one and get pumped,
to find that soon thereafter waits [...] Read more »