Sayings
A week ago I landed at SFO and finished my trip through Southeast Asia. As you’d guess it’s been a hectic week of catching up. And of scratching flea bites. But one week gives enough…
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Finally Home!
Got home this morning and thought I’d repost this short conclusion. It was in my last post about Chiang Rai but it was buried at the bottom. It deserves more attention. This journey has been…
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Chiang Rai
I write this from the northern Thai city of Chiang Rai. It’s a remote region famous for the Golden Triangle, a once thriving opium trade, and the beautiful Doi Chang mountains. This is a rural…
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Singapore
My last post focused on my time in the Klong Toey Slum of Bangkok and the challenges of human trafficking and poverty. How to handle such complex problems? Well, one way is to do what…
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Bangkok
“Poverty is the trafficker,” said my daughter. With those words all of us on The SOLD Project Activist Vision Trip saw the many threads of human trafficking weave together into an abhorrent evil of economic…
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Myanmar
Myanmar is a fascinating country and my short visit was illuminating. There is a mix of 19th and 20th Century forces at work — oxen pulling carts, holdover totalitarian governments from the Cold War era,…
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From This Adventure to the Next and Back
Most of us feel a touch of trepidation when we travel to an unknown place. Walking into the foreign can be both thrilling and frightening at the same time. Even after years of going to…
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2013 Reading List
Another year, another 100+ books. My reading list for 2013 was varied and fun. I already posted my favorites here, but below is a complete list of all the books I read this year. You…