a travelogue
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06/17/07
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Blog Post from
Heather's House // Brooklyn // New York
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Being There
Myrtle Beach does not exist. Myrtle Beach is in fact a copy of a place that does not exist. Nearly everything in Myrtle Beach is a paltry derivative of some original form. For instance, most of the country has golf courses, in Myrtle Beach there are endless rows of putt-putt courses complete with sewage treatment blue waterfalls and variety of …
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Topics:
Airports,
Americans,
Beach,
Philosophy,
Tourism,
Travel
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01/19/06
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Blog Post from
Tat Kung Si Waterfalls // Luang Prabang // Laos (PDR)
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Hymn of the Big Wheel
A misty haze settles over the Mekong River Valley every evening; it begins to gather as an almost imperceptible smoke around sundown, the mountains begin to look farther away, less distinct and then it builds through the night reaching its apex somewhere in the “Bible black predawn” as Jeff Tweedy put it. The fog burns off by midmorning, noon at …
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Topics:
Asia,
Mekong River,
Rivers,
Round The World Trip,
Tourism,
Waterfalls
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11/30/05
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Blog Post from
Shilpogram // Udaipur // India
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Around Udaipur
I spent the day wandering around Udaipur, in the morning I visited the Jagdish Temple and the Bagore-ki-Haveli. I don’t have much interest in religious temples apart from an architectural standpoint, but the Jagdish Temple was an incredibly impressive design, covered in very delicate and ornate stone carvings depicting everything from scenes of Vishnu to elephants butting heads. I walked …
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Topics:
Asia,
Palaces,
Round The World Trip,
Tourism
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11/19/05
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Blog Post from
Joomla Guesthouse // Colva Beach // India
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Fish Story
I ate a whole fish—skin, flesh, and all. Yes after about 24 hours of traveling I finally made it to Goa. I’m staying at Colva Beach, which is in Southern Goa and apparently less of a party town than some of the areas to the north. Quite frankly the idea of coming all the way to India and being surrounded …
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Topics:
Asia,
Beach,
Food,
Round The World Trip,
Tourism,
Trains