Tag: life
member name: Sean Paul Kelley
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September 23, 2008 11:00 AM EDT --
Tomorrow morning when I awake, walk out of my flat and head to the bus station I will begin the adventure of a lifetime. I will get on a bus and head off towards Malaysia and the famed spice trading city . . .
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October 03, 2008 06:59 AM EDT --
I learned an annoying lesson today: pay attention to where you park your moped. If there are red and white stripes on the curb, no matter how many other mopeds are parked int he same space, don't . . .
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November 24, 2008 01:51 AM EST --
PLEASE COMMENT, VOTE AND SEND THIS TO FRIENDS HERE AT GATHER. COMMENTS AND VOTES EQUAL CASH FOR ME AND CASH KEEPS ME ON THE ROAD AND KEEPS THESE POSTS COMING.
I've had a few readers ask me . . .
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December 16, 2008 03:11 AM EST --
Beyond the blues, beyond the shadows, beyond the rain
Beyond the darkness and all the pain
When you're walking in circles, with holes in your shoes
Love is the road that leads out beyond . . .
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January 04, 2009 09:07 AM EST --
No, I wasn't any where near the earthquake in Papua. That's like thousands of miles away from where I am. But damn, I miss Toba already. I left this morning. I didn't want to leave. . . .
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December 04, 2008 12:41 AM EST --
'I've been thinking 'bout all those goods things I just let slip away.
First it was the good job, then it was the woman that I love. Then it was the car
and all the other material . . .
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January 02, 2009 09:54 PM EST --
As is my personal custom I usually spend the few days before the new year recounting the one soon to be passed. A taking stock, of sorts.
In the grand scheme of things 2008 hasn't . . .
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January 03, 2009 06:11 AM EST --
I'll be leaving Lake Toba tomorrow, early and won't be near a computer for a few days. But I wanted to leave you all with my best memory of Toba: New Year's Eve.
From my travel journal: . . .
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April 15, 2009 04:37 AM EDT --
If life is like a candle bright/Then death must be the wind
You know you can close your window tight/And it still comes blowing in
So I will climb the highest hill/And I'll watch the rising . . .
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September 24, 2008 09:57 PM EDT --
Thus far Malaysia really reminds me of Mexico. There are several reasons for that. One is that everything shuts down during the heat of the day. Second, the day gets started very late, most places . . .
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September 27, 2008 09:33 AM EDT --
Why Chiang Mai? Well, I'll get to that in a minute. But first, a few thoughts on the road up here. Looking at a map on would think the trip from Melaka to Chiang Mai wouldn't take that . . .
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March 28, 2009 06:15 AM EDT --
Nine months have passed since I left Austin last summer. In the three months since I last looked back upon the genesis and beginning of this journey a lot has changed. The questions I wrestled . . .
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July 17, 2008 02:06 AM EDT --
The sun shines all morning.
But then, the barometer plummets, all motion, movement is sucked from the air.
The wind stops.
All is still but the clouds above swirl, growing dark, angry as . . .
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July 20, 2008 09:23 AM EDT --
Note: This was written in September of 2007
Yesterday, on my way to Sultanhamet, I crossed the Galata Bridge, over the Golden Horn, looking out on the wine-dark sea of the Bosporus. The sky was . . .
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April 09, 2009 06:50 AM EDT --
If one had but a single glance to give to the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
It's a big city, Istanbul. Ten million people? Fifteen? Is anyone really sure? Modern Istanbul's name . . .
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September 30, 2008 07:11 AM EDT --
Yes, the title is somewhat of a riff off of the Wizard of Oz. But man, did I have a fun day!
First stop: a parasol factory. Sounds boring, but it wasn't.
Second stop: a silk factory. . . .
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October 01, 2008 05:55 AM EDT --
My day started off at a gem factory--I confess to finding the factory floor interesting, watching the men hammer, solder and heat the gold, silver and other metals; seeing them chip away at, . . .
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October 05, 2008 12:11 AM EDT --
These are all very random observations, no narrative is intended.
First, I don't see or hear many Americans here in in Chiang Mai. I see and hear lots of Northern Europeans, Czechs, Russians, . . .
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October 30, 2008 12:24 AM EDT --
It was a boat trip for the ages. The first day, as we all boarded the boat the excitement in the air was palpable and the young backpackers certainly got their party on. Amidst howls of "BeerLao!" . . .
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December 18, 2008 06:53 AM EST --
Superlative.
In a word: superlative.
Lake Toba is quite possibly the most beautiful place I have ever seen in my life. And I've seen a lot.
The scenery is intensely dramatic. And the . . .
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