Kentucky Ice Storm

Kentucky Ice Storm While traveling the last 2 years I have heard some pretty funny stereotypes about Kentucky. Most Chinese people that could speak English would ask me where in the US I was from, the conversation went like this: “Where you from?” “I’m American” “Ohhhhh….are you from California or New York City?”  [ Any [...]

Ice and midnight vagabonds

Crash! Thump! Another trunk sized branch laden with ice broke free and hissed through the darkness on its way down.  It sounded like a chandelier hitting the ground as ice exploded like crystal onto the leaves nearby. Day 3 of an ice storm here in Kentucky and it has taken its toll.  Granted, our “ice [...]

Travel Lesson Learned : Kanchanaburi

Travel Lesson : Go with the flow In a belch of black smoke, my first local bus rattled out of the busy station and to tell the truth, I had no idea where I was going…. I had arrived in Bangkok only 3 days before Chinese New Year in 2006.  The city was mad (even [...]

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