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Hong Kong Notes

24-Oct-10

What’s Hong Kong like? I’m done travel blogging it, I think, but here are my notes: 13th: 6 lbs. of Velveeta and I go through 15 minutes of interrogation about its solidity, potential explosive qualities, and my travel history at JFK. We pass. 15th: Killer onion bhajjis. Suit measurement in TST, followed by Kowloon Park […]

Photos of South America

10-Sep-10

Gotcha! You thought I’d posted some? I’ve been thinking a bit about how to post photos, or rather which photos to post. I may postpone it further by writing a post about how I intend to post them. I’d like to avoid the visual equivalent of the preceding post — an unyielding wall of similar […]

Clearing the backblog

10-Sep-10

After the three semi-timely posts we turned out in Bolivia, things got complicated. I should really go back to paper–this isn’t the first time I’ve just fallen behind unaccountably. It’s interesting to think about why I’ve been so successful in the act of blogging (with no comments on the results, please) on some trips in […]

Sucre and Santa Cruz de la Sierra

14-Aug-10

La Paz leftover: the bowler hats on Andean women were fascinating. We’ve read how they were introduced, but are curious as to whether they’re invariably undersized by necessity or by fashion. Anyone know? Not much to report since, because there’s been too much to report. Our Aerosur flight to Sucre was fine and came with […]

She says- La Paz

09-Aug-10

It’s our last night in La Paz, and I can’t believe Daniel Harris described what we have done as “intense lazing around.” Pfff. DH’s idea of “taking it easy” somehow involved more than four hours (!) a day of some of the most intense walking I have ever done. Friends, this is some extremely high […]

La Paz, Bolivia

09-Aug-10

We’ve almost caught our breaths in La Paz after two days of walking uphill everywhere and intense lazing about. Time to leave: we’ll fly to Sucre (scheduled at 45 min. vs. the 14 hour bus ride) tomorrow midday. Our flight from Miami to La Paz was delayed several hours on the tarmac: ICE had a […]