Tag: Armchair travel
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From Yangon, with sanity
Obviously no one briefed the censors that I was coming. This site is one of the only things out there that isn’t blocked. Thank you for your trust, Junta. Appreciated. We arrived yesterday morning after a long (and yet not long at all) journey from Shanghai: our flight out to Guangzhou sat on…
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Compare and Contrast
I’ve been stupidly busy this week, between finishing up my year’s marking (done!), trying to find brand new, unmarked, unfolded American dollars for our trip to Myanmar on Friday (the junta is fussy about money and they don’t have ATM machines or take credit cards anywhere), and trying to assemble a first aid kit in…
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Despo(t) 2010: Stan!
Also in this series: Death By Exposure and Despo(t) 2010: The Axis of Awesome In our quest to avoid the crowded pavilions at Shanghai Expo 2010, we embarked on an intensive one-day project to visit as many maligned countries as possible. We visited the Axis of Evil and a few non-affiliated-but-still-iffy countries. We…
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Shanghai Despo(t) 2010- The Axis of Awesome Pavilions
Also in this series: Death By Exposure and Stan! We went back to Expo on Saturday for a stubborn second round of heat stroke and agoraphobia. The first time we went, which was just last Tuesday on the second day of the Dragon Boat Festival holiday, we waited two hours in an increasingly…
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Death by Exposure: Expo 2010, Part 1
Also in this series: Despot 2010: Axis of Awesome and Stan! After we spent the first day of the Dragon Boat Festival being slothful, alternating dragging our bodies out for breakfast, for lunch, for dinner, and lying dugong-like on the sofa, reading and drinking coffee, we decided to be ambitious for the second…