Somewhere on the Globe Vox 2008-04-22T00:30:54Z Bill and Marge Pfeffer http://pfeffer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom tag:vox.com,2006:6p00e3989e11a30004/2008/04/ Pfeffer's On the Go - Stories from the Road A Stitch In Time tag:vox.com,2008-04-21:asset-6a00e3989e11a3000400f48cf09bc10003 2008-04-21T12:13:27Z 2008-04-22T00:30:54Z Bill and Marge Pfeffer http://pfeffer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Lantern Lit Hoi An More Hoi An Hoi An - I Like This Picture My Son Ruins Colorful Pagoda in Hoi An Lady, You Think You Could Concentrate on Driving For A Second Marge on Boat Tour Bill Supplying The Missing Head One of Many Sewing Factories Unfortunate Surname for This Business I Haven't A Clue What These Have in Common Is This Old Guy Blowing Me A Kiss ? Hoi An - Old French Colonial Getting Fitted The Citadel, Hue

As the pretty young gal efficiently read my measurements and relayed them to her helper, who distractedly recorded them in a paper notebook, I attempted mental conversions from centimeters to inches – the circumference of my neck, the size of m...

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]]> Dalat To Like tag:vox.com,2008-04-14:asset-6a00e3989e11a3000400e398f008600005 2008-04-14T15:28:35Z 2008-04-22T18:51:52Z Bill and Marge Pfeffer http://pfeffer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Dalat Countryside Beaches of Mui Ne, Vietnam Seemingly Unseaworthy Coracle Boat Bill and His Easy Rider Pilot Silk Factory Assembly Line Marge, Next Time, Get A Smaller Helmut Bill on his Birthday With 75 Cent Pitcher of Local Brew Elephant Falls, Dalat, Vietnam Crazy House, Dalat, Vietnam Strange Machine Favorite Locals Pub Mr and Mrs Dung from the Dreams Hotel, Dalat, Vietnam At the Noodle Factory Our Room in Mui Ne Two Fisherman Would Go In The River In This Tiny Toy Boat Jolly White Buddha

I couldn’t decide what was most annoying about our frustrated NASCAR wannabe driver, the fact that he felt inclined to check his cell phone for messages every 5 minutes, or the sporting way he slalomed around potholes and cow pies, or the irrit...

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Hordes of Motorbikes Jade Emperor Pagoda Selling Everything From Bikes View From Presidential Palace Enterprising Young man Nice Pagoda in Saigon Uncle Ho in The Post Office Marge at War Remembrances Museum Saigon Post Office Compressor On Every Corner

As we balanced on the curb assessing more motorbikes than I had seen in my entire lifetime, a hunchbacked 150 year old Mother Teresa look-alike walked up, and, without hesitation, stepped off the curb into the seemingly uninhibited traffic. Act...

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]]> Long Ago and Far Away tag:vox.com,2008-04-03:asset-6a00e3989e11a3000400f48d0990330001 2008-04-03T10:40:11Z 2008-04-03T11:19:42Z Bill and Marge Pfeffer http://pfeffer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Angkor Wat Terrace of the Elephants Ta Prohm Dusty Road to Siem Reap Persistent Little Tout at Ta Som The Moat Around Angkor Wat Bayon No Worries, I Won't Go There You Can See How Big These Bas Reliefs Really Are So Many Examples of Crumbling Walls Mr. Sony Our Tuk Tuk Driver Tuol Sleng Museum Royal Palace, Phonm Penh So Many Little Gems THIS is Mass Transit I'll Have a Half Pound of the Fried Grassshoppers and a Dozen Beetles Long Lines of Poor People Waiting To See Doctors More Carvings Around Every Corner Piles of Land Mines Very Beautiful Banteay Srey I Wouldn't Walk There If I Were You Entrance to Angkor Thom Even a Simple Pile of Rubble Is Timeless Banteay Srey - The Best Carvings Prasat Kraven Fig Shrouded ruins

Out of the corner of my eye, I saw movement as the little rodent scurried under Marge’s bamboo chair. We were sitting at an outdoor café in downtown Phnom Penh, quietly having a drink after arriving from Siem Reap and checking into our hotel. I...

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