Somewhere on the Globe

Travels in Southern China

nobody@vox.com(Bill and Marge Pfeffer) — Mon, 05 May 2008 11:34:26 -0700

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

nobody@vox.com(Bill and Marge Pfeffer) — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 05:13:27 -0700

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

nobody@vox.com(Bill and Marge Pfeffer) — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:28:35 -0700

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

nobody@vox.com(Bill and Marge Pfeffer) — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 04:40:49 -0700

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

nobody@vox.com(Bill and Marge Pfeffer) — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 03:40:11 -0700

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

nobody@vox.com(Bill and Marge Pfeffer) — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:35:19 -0700

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

nobody@vox.com(Bill and Marge Pfeffer) — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 02:47:05 -0700

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

nobody@vox.com(Bill and Marge Pfeffer) — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 02:39:18 -0700

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

nobody@vox.com(Bill and Marge Pfeffer) — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:55:35 -0800

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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Down by The River

nobody@vox.com(Bill and Marge Pfeffer) — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 17:42:14 -0800

Four hours north of Luang Prabang lays the delicious little hamlet of Nong Khiaw astride the beautiful Nam Ou River. On the recommendation of a fellow traveler, we headed north from Luang Prabang on 4 hour minibus journey, a kaleidoscope of stu...

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