Big Trouble in Little Brunei

Click. I didn’t think anything of the harmless photograph taken of the busy street corner. A green sign with Arabic beneath advertised “Jalan Sultan” – the street name. Behind the sign was a Dairy Queen – the first and only one that I have ever seen in Asia. Dairy Queen is an ice cream / [...]

Back to the Forest

The tiny red ant had the strength of a centipede as it buried its pincers into my foot. Nothing new, especially while trekking through a Southeast Asian rainforest.  In a place with so much diverse life – much of it in the form of biting insects – I considered myself fortunate to find only a [...]

Recommendation

Time to take a break from my rambling about myself and Boreno. I don’t do recommendation posts too often – and no, this isn’t paid! – so this is personal. I was approached out of the blue by a reader named Tyler Niccum, who happens to be one hell of an artist.  He sent me [...]

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