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Read more: New Zealand March 2018I have come to love New Zealand, and keep coming back. I just returned to do some sailplane gliding and hiking. Previous 12 trip reports for New Zealand As always, I began my visit by stopping to see my Kiwi family in Auckland. Here is a snippet of them from back in 2016: My […]
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Read more: Bangkok, Thailand January 2018Judy and I came to love Thailand, and returned many times. During one stay in Bangkok, I began studying Chen Tai Chi with a club in Bangkok. Tai Chi is very good exercise, and also has a meditative component. Now I have come back to Thailand to practice. I’ve settled into a routine of early […]
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Read more: Myanmar (Burma) December 2017My next trip is a short excursion to Myanmar (Burma), to the northeast of Thailand. About the size of France, it has about 52 million people, mostly Buddhists. I will begin in Yangon (formerly Rangoon), and then spend Christmas week on the beach to the northwest on the Bay of Bengal. I am saving the […]
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Read more: Dengue fever December 2017One of the risks of being a global nomad is exposure to illnesses not common at home. I’ve been to 73 countries now in my life, and managed to avoid malaria and other serious tropical illnesses–until recently. I am in recovery from an episode of dengue fever now. One of my readers asked that I […]
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Read more: Sri Lanka December 2017My next destination is Sri Lanka (formerly known as Ceylon). Judy and I had been south of there, in the Maldive Islands, and north of there in Central and North India, but somehow never got around to visiting. Sri Lanka is a smallish island country, about 150 miles x 270 miles, with a population of […]
