Somewhere on the Globe Vox 2008-05-15T12:22:29Z Bill and Marge Pfeffer http://pfeffer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom tag:vox.com,2006:6p00e3989e11a30004/ Pfeffer's On the Go - Stories from the Road Halong Will Uncle Ho Last ? tag:vox.com,2008-05-13:asset-6a00e3989e11a3000400f48d16450a0001 2008-05-13T07:43:08Z 2008-05-15T12:22:29Z Bill and Marge Pfeffer http://pfeffer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Marge and Grandma at Local Village View of Ninh Binh A Man and His Water Buffalo Old Quarter, Hanoi Pagoda in Hanoi Our Corner Beer Hangout Bill and Ming Cruising Ninh Binh Our Boat Deck Cat Ba Island, Halong Bay Hard To Believe It's Weasel Coffee Countryside of Ninh Binh Everything But The Kitchen Sink Rowing With Your Feet The Beer Man Has Arrived

Sitting in the back seat of the taxi, the weasely little driver’s intentions were obvious, as he furtively glanced at the meter every half second and licked his lips, driving as slowly and legally as possible, decelerating at every traffic ligh...

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]]> Travels in Southern China tag:vox.com,2008-05-05:asset-6a00e3989e11a3000400f48cf525560002 2008-05-05T18:34:26Z 2008-05-06T00:32:05Z Bill and Marge Pfeffer http://pfeffer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom We’re now traveling through Southern China having taken a train out of Vietnam on 30-April. As of 06-May, we’re in the town of Yangshuo, a very scenic location about an hour south of Guilin, where we’ll be staying for the next 10-14 days. Within ...

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]]> 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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]]> Something Happening Here tag:vox.com,2008-04-07:asset-6a00e3989e11a3000400e398edca480005 2008-04-07T11:40:49Z 2008-04-09T16:44:56Z Bill and Marge Pfeffer http://pfeffer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

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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]]> Miles of Smiles tag:vox.com,2008-03-29:asset-6a00e3989e11a3000400f48ce91e590002 2008-03-29T04:35:19Z 2008-03-29T05:17:23Z Bill and Marge Pfeffer http://pfeffer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Chiang Mai Sunday Night Market Food Vendors on Temple Grounds Kept Wishing This Was Licorice, When In Fact It's Vegemite Did You Ever Walk Out of a Bar So Blitzed You Imagined You Saw An Elephant Nicely Preserved Wat in Chiang Mai Lod Cave Outside Soppong Proud Parents Newly Initiated Novice Monk Quite The Elaborate Costumes Monks Who Live on the Grounds of the Wat Are in Charge of Maintenance Marge Outside Mandala House Restoration in Progress Temple Offering Many, Many, Many Wats in Chiang Mai Women's Lib Has Not Yet Reached Parts of Thailand

With more glitz and flash than a Japanese tour bus, the Chiang Mai Sunday Night Market presented a dizzying array of merchandise, food and entertainment on a balmy full moon evening. For two hours we negotiated up Tapae Road i...

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]]> Good Vibrations tag:vox.com,2008-03-15:asset-6a00e3989e11a3000400f48ce48acc0003 2008-03-15T09:47:05Z 2008-03-16T09:22:05Z Bill and Marge Pfeffer http://pfeffer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Where Bill Spent 3 Hours With Another Person View of Tha Ton Marge at White Temple - Chiang Rai Mobile Aluminum Step Ladder Salesman - Found This Odd Chiang Rai Wat Garden Home Nature Resort Bungalow Garlic Harvest Tha Ton Countryside We Love the Water Buffalo Pai Bar Pai River Through Pai Wall of Female Buddha's Baan Suan Rim Pai Guesthouse in Pai Pai Bridges Harvesting Garlic Marge with Spare Tire and Bags of Garlic Pai Wat Bill at the Hot Springs Really Nice Wat Set in Hills Above Pai Bus to Pai

Like an episode from ‘Survivor’, I clung to the door frame of the rickety local bus while standing on the lower step, wedged between my wife and another person, challenging myself to hang on just a little while longer, hopeful that someone, a...

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]]> Fare Thee Well tag:vox.com,2008-03-10:asset-6a00e3989e11a3000400e398e474de0004 2008-03-10T09:39:18Z 2008-03-10T09:48:58Z Bill and Marge Pfeffer http://pfeffer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Cruising Up the Mekong on the Luangsay Boat The Luangsay Cruise Ship Below Cruising The Mekong River Marge Relaxing On Board View Upriver Better Than A Milk Carton Mekong River Boat - Shallow Draft A Pig In A Poke ? The Many Statues in The Buddha Cave Bill on the Luangsay More Mekong River Amazing Statues in the Cave Bill Checking Out Scenery

Like a scene from a Mark Twain novel, our pilot deftly maneuvered around the Mekong shallows while his first mate, using a 30’ bamboo pole, continuously sounded for the bottom by repeatedly plunging this pole into the river. Wouldn’t it be easi...

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]]> Stuck In A Moment tag:vox.com,2008-03-07:asset-6a00e3989e11a3000400e398e371a30004 2008-03-07T03:55:35Z 2008-03-07T03:57:07Z Bill and Marge Pfeffer http://pfeffer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Views form Muong Ngoi Great Walk to the Local Villages Muong Ngoi Wat Everyone Comes Out to See the Visitors Cozy Boat Ride Back to Nong Khiaw Mekong Seaweed - Pound Flat, Dry, Add Sesame Seeds, Fry - Very, Very Good Muong Ngoi Harbor Traversing the Rice Paddies Early Morning Alms in Luang Prabang Uh - Hold the Garlic on That Pizza Walking Thru a Village Ning Ning Guesthouse Behind Marge Waiting for the Boat in Muong Ngoi Marge, What's On TV ?

Remove the engine from your automobile, strap it on the deck of a boat, shoehorn 30 passengers shoulder to shoulder, knee to knee, on hard wooden planks, then speed downriver, avoiding protruding rocks and stopping at occasional local villages ...

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