by Stephanie Quan | Aug 9, 2011 | Cambodia, How's the weather?, Summer 2011: From the Middle East to North Korea
Is the name of a bar in Siam Reap. If you buy two buckets, you get a t-shirt. I have a t-shirt. Its been raining. Which is nice because it normally happens in the late afternoon, just when the heat is past my level of toleration. It has meant though that I’ve...
by Stephanie Quan | Aug 7, 2011 | Let me tell you a Story..., Myanmar, Summer 2011: From the Middle East to North Korea, Way Way Off the Beaten Path
On my last day in Myanmar, I decided to look up an art gallery I had read about in Smithsonian. The article outlined a series of artists who made art that skirted government censorship; artists who made paintings of women trapped in spiderwebs and lied about the...
by Stephanie Quan | Aug 6, 2011 | Cambodia, Let me tell you a Story..., Summer 2011: From the Middle East to North Korea, Way Way Off the Beaten Path
defenses up again. haggling again. sleeping in a building that’s about to be torn down. there’s a rave going on outside. got a massage by a blind person… It may just be the place where I’m staying (by the lake, near a cluster of cheap...
by Stephanie Quan | Aug 5, 2011 | Introspection, Summer 2011: From the Middle East to North Korea, Thailand
21 hour layover in Bangkok was, as predicted, overwhelming. THE DENSITY. e.g. 1. Khao San rd. This is where apparently all of the backpackers congregate at night. What you will find on this road: street food every 10 feet, local musicians covering american classics,...
by Stephanie Quan | Aug 4, 2011 | Cambodia, Summer 2011: From the Middle East to North Korea, Thailand
Not quite the wild, actually. More like into the unknown. Calvin and I parted ways this morning. It was a little sad. He wrote his address in my notebook next to all the other addresses of people, we’ve traveled with. Of course, he pointed out the sentimentality...
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