Paul's Oriental Travelogue

Intermission

An ode to New Jersey on Route 3...
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Boldly Going

Chiang Mai is 700km north of Bangkok, about the distance from Cleveland to New York, though you'd hardly know it from my little map in the corner. So it's quite cool and pleasant at night and at least not humid...
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Chiang Mai baby

I was going to write a real panning of Chiang Mai but of course that's just because I was hungry and frustrated. It's dense with traffic, it has an ancient moat that's preserved for some reason in the center of...
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North by Northwest

It's getting much harder to upload things. Internet joints here have shiny but very bad computers, sometimes without USB, always slow and running Windows ME (worst OS release ever, even worse by far than any other modern Windoze) and a...
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Note from a moving train

Ayuthaya Pictures It's a lucky thing in Thailand the trains don't always run on time. If they did, this might be a sullen, sarcastic entry instead of the drowsily effusive one I hope it will be. I nearly missed the...
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