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stop having a boring tuna
I went impulse shopping in the travel agency and came out with a weekend trip to the Republic of China. Greetings from Taipei! Look at all those Japanese cars driving on the right-hand side of the...
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ROC. K?
As expected, Taipei has yielded up some good gems. We have a lot to talk about.The other day, my friend described electronically-translated, no-sense-making Chinese menus as "poetic." Huh. I always...
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it was a strange lookin mountain
Q: Do I have more pics and shit from Taiwan?A:On my last day in Taipei, I took the subway to the northern outskirts of the city, where the 'burbs give way to mountains. At the subway station, most...
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unrelenting torrent of pics from Taipei: shopping edition
Frequently asked question: Did you buy that thing?Answer: Usually, no. I've been traveling for so long that my acquisitive impulse has been crushed like a hideous Taiwanese bead sculpture in an...
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watermelon mt.
I packed up and left Hong Kong about a week ago. It was the least frantic packing-up-and-leaving situation I've enjoyed in a long while: I organized my stuff more than an hour before I had to leave for...
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mein Lieblingsgemüse
Hey dudes. As of today, I'm on Euro vacation: warm greetings from the Continent.I had a li'l layover this afternoon in the World's Second-Worst Airport (London Heathrow), just long enough to flip...
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quik pix von Deutschland
Gasthaus in Bad Bodendorf: restaurant, hotel, one-lane indoor bowling alley, time warp:1982: A very good year for bowling.Nobody bowled, but I knew I would've won. Eradicator!Spargelsuppe: cream of...
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forest crunk
Black Forest Folk.German highways don't just look immaculate when compared to the Bud can-strewn Adopt-a-Highways of the States and the styrofoam/cig butt/dead body/tea bottle graveyard roadsides of...
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comment solicitation (written in haste!)
Vienna was not really part of the plan, but I ended up here on a layover, awaiting a train to Budapest tomorrow morning. Arrived after midnight and just got back from a long walk around: maybe my blood...
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fault linez
I always scold myself on the kinda-rare occasions that I buy emergency socks or underwear instead of doing laundry: like, how wasteful and disorganized. How contemptible! But oops, life got so entropic...
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my place in the old world
I may have slept too long on composing this entry: my Euro vacation is over and I'm back in Albuquerque; so much has happened between then/there and now/here that I feel like I'm trying to write about...
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hungarian product bonanza
Új! (pronounced "ooh-ee") = New! Cold cherry soup. I tried this stuff years ago when my beloved Hungarian ex-roommate Olga whipped some up in Hong Kong. No Hungarian model ever leaves home without a...
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