Eating and Trekking and Eating - Vietnam

Grounded in Malaysia until the northeast monsoon comes in and in need of a new visa for Malaysia, we took a short flying trip to some colder climes – Hanoi in northern Vietnam. But first we went to Kuala Lumpur for two days to visit friends and, as it happened, choke on the dangerously high air pollution the area was suffering. While we were not in Port Klang, we were not...

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Malacca Malaise - Part II

After reading Alain De Botton's The Art of Travel, I was motivated to contemplate and emotionally explore the depth of some of the more mundane things that we were experiencing. I was thinking about writing a word sketch about the incredible heat and suffocating humidity that pounded down upon us every day from 10am-5:30pm, the melancholy that overwhelmed us during the slow...

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