Tag: asia
member name: Joel Carillet
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December 19, 2007 10:59 AM EST --
To begin at Part One, click HERE
Eighteen hours later, through the fog of a powerful drug, I awoke to what at first I genuinely . . .
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November 29, 2006 04:26 AM EST --
A few shots of food in Asia, ranging from recognizable fast food to delicious ethnic plates.
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July 04, 2007 11:04 AM EDT --
(Part 3 of 4. To begin at Part 1, click HERE)
The next morning, my first full day in Asia, I had a simple goal: to find . . .
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March 07, 2007 01:28 PM EST --
Several minutes after crossing the border into Uzbekistan I exchanged $20; in return, I got a wad of bills wrapped . . .
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November 03, 2007 02:37 PM EDT --
In the town of Kanchanaburi -- home of the famous Bridge on the River Kwai -- there are also cemeteries, museums, kayaks, and so on. And there are, of course, dogs. Below are . . .
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February 05, 2009 11:07 AM EST --
Sitting by the lakeshore and looking up into a clear blue sky, it was hard to imagine that here, amid such perfect quiet, Mother . . .
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June 16, 2006 08:38 PM EDT --
I had come to Hong Kong by ferry from Macau, one hour to the west. By the time I was checked for SARS, got my passport stamped, and found my way from the international terminal (on Hong Kong Island) . . .
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June 21, 2006 09:57 AM EDT --
Lijiang, China
Since at least the time of the Qin Dynasty (the rulers who unified China in the third century BC), people have been propelling a ball forward with their feet. This predecessor of . . .
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June 23, 2006 06:54 PM EDT --
I wrote this journal entry a few days before leaving Sumatra for Singapore. I was at the end of two days beside Lake Maninjau, a crater lake not far from the town of Bukit Tinggi. . . .
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August 26, 2006 11:36 AM EDT --
I'm posting these pictures with only a minimum of commentary (mostly because I have a lot to do today here in Tennessee and shouldn't be spending time posting pictures about Tibet). This . . .
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October 03, 2006 11:54 AM EDT --
THERE ARE A LOT OF BICYCLES ROAMING AROUND THIS WORLD. HERE ARE PICTURES OF A FEW OF THEM...
Beijing, China
Taxila, Pakistan
Dien Bien Phu, Vietnam
New Delhi, India
Kunming, China (parked . . .
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December 05, 2007 11:52 AM EST --
He was about 6'4" and said he was from Kuwait, though later an official at the U.S. consulate would tell me he was likely from . . .
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January 02, 2008 03:03 PM EST --
I'm doing something a little different for this week's column. Instead of a "crafted" article, I'm simply posting a . . .
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June 19, 2008 10:30 AM EDT --
TO BEGIN AT PART ONE, CLICK HERE
Mian said goodbye and the bus continued on toward Peshawar. It was . . .
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November 12, 2008 08:36 AM EST --
It goes without saying that for most of his presidency George Bush was, as CNN's Christiane Amanpour once termed . . .
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December 21, 2006 04:53 PM EST --
On Christmas morning 2003, as dawn struggled to break through the soup-like fog that had the small town of Sapa thoroughly enveloped, I struggled out of bed. I had been up late the night before, . . .
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January 06, 2007 09:56 PM EST --
A SELECTION OF PHOTOS OF THAT UNIVERSAL ANIMAL, THE DOG
Hanging outside a school in Dharamsala, . . .
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July 18, 2007 08:42 PM EDT --
(Part 4 of 4. To begin at Part 1, click HERE)
Four days later, sitting alone on the Great Wall at Simatai, sixty-five . . .
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October 12, 2007 08:53 AM EDT --
THE SETTING
Most of my 34-year-old peers are married with children. They live in homes and, with few exceptions, have jobs for which . . .
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March 28, 2008 12:45 PM EDT --
On my laptop is a Word document in which three years ago I typed up my favorite passages - 4,000 words worth - from Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers . . .
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