Light breaks over the horizon, amber at first and then slowly illuminating the world. The plane drops lower and I can start to make out land forms – first the coastline and then rivers and estuaries take. Soon enough, dark silhouettes. Unmistakeable. Beneath a few wispy clouds, limestone towers soar skyward from waters of PhangContinue reading “Back to the Land Of Smiles”
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Travels And Tribulations
Asia, as a whole, has been closed to foreign travel since the early 2020. When Covid first jumped the Chinese border, it’s closest neighbors pulled up their drawbridges, posted sentries, and enacted some of the strictest protocol on the planet. Slowly, towards the end of 2021, those drawbridges were starting to come down. But theContinue reading “Travels And Tribulations”
The Cure for Wanderlust
It’s an affliction really. It isn’t fatal near as I can tell, but it can sometimes feel suffocatingly so. Symptoms include (but are not limited to): chronically fantasizing remote destinations, acute desires for foreign culture, insatiable cravings for ‘exotic’ food, and a general sense of malaise about one’s current location. In the afflicted, the simpleContinue reading “The Cure for Wanderlust”
Christopher’s Travels 