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We BROKE FREE and went on our own today. THANK GOD. I had so much fun. Shanghai is mucho cool. Business center girl and I have been chatting for a while and she has promised to take me out and about next time I am in town. Cool! New Friend!!! Can’t wait to come back.Continue reading “Ohh. Breaking Free in Shanghai. Sanity Regained”

Backpacking Addict hello from shanghai. It’s nice to be back online and hear from some of you. Sounds a little strange but I guess in the last few months your comments and thoughts have become such a frabric of my life that when I got on, saw some familiar names and words and ideas, itContinue reading “Being on a duck tour, and hello from Shanghai.”

Backpacking Addict: Laos Oops I forgot to post this! News: Blazing a fiery trail through the Martian atmosphere, NASA’s Opportunity rover landed safely at 9:05 p.m. Saturday, rolling to a stop in Meridiani Planum a few minutes later to score a clean sweep for the agency’s twin missions to the Red Planet. I did thisContinue reading “A Sketch: Space Travel, Skies and Black Holes”

Family Bathing in River Sri Lanka: Polonnaruwa, 2001 Polonnaruwa is the most northern destination a tourist can legally go to in Sri Lanka, the last peaceful city before the northern part of the country which until recently was at civil war. It took us about three days to get up there, and since it wasContinue reading “Glutter Portraits: Sri Lankan Family Bathing In River”

Back Packing Addict No matter how much of the world I think I have seen, and how many nation states I stumble into, whenever I look at the world map I am humbled as there are far more places I haven’t gone to and could never in my life time travel all of them noContinue reading “This is the World and all the places I have been”

Backpacking Addict I came across it this other day as I was going through some notes. It’s sketches of mine of a live wombat. I was in Australia visiting the parents, I spent a day in a little sanctuary hanging out with odd looking animals, taking photos, drawing and having one way conversations with themContinue reading “My One Way Conversation with My Friend the Wombat”

Stories of a Back Packing Addict Well here we are in the year 2000. I have to admit I was a little disappointed to see there were NO Y2K troubles at all on our beloved cultural imperialistic CNN.com.. Bummer. I was hoping the world would have to suffer a little after all that HYPE. EvenContinue reading “Laos: Women Hitting On Monks, Aliens and Responsible Traveling People! Jan 2000”

All Laos 1999-2000 Entries HAPPY NEW YEAR. May the Happiest of the Last be the Saddest of the Next Click To Englarge

Stories of a Backpacking Addict Subject: Not the End But Close!! From this last day of the millennium, I send you my greetings. May we all be happier in this next step in time than we were in the last. May email and telephone calls get cheaper and teleport services come about soon. May myContinue reading “Laos: Untouched by Technology: New Year Eve 1999: Luang Prabang”