With all this time in Sweden, I have been able to do a fair deal of travel research. Lately, I have been looking a lot at Tibet – our planned destination for September.
While there are several pros and cons about going to Tibet, the main problem remains the fact that the Chinese authorities have imposed [...]
It turns out that the Fourth of July is not celebrated in Sweden. Why the Swedes don’t whip out their American flags and get stumbling drunk like the rest of us is beyond me.
So, I stand here (well, I’m sitting right now, but whatevs), the sole American representative in Sangis, and send my love to [...]
As promised, here is the much anticipated Vietnam Beer Review!
The two main brands of beer in Vietnam are called Saigon and Hanoi. Unsurprisingly, Hanoi is the popular brand in the north, while Saigon is the flagship of the south. There are a bunch of smaller breweries that have their own brands, but they are generally [...]
Regular readers of seatsofourpants.com have been able to see us eat a whole bunch of different things (various street food, stinging nettles, worms), but everyone knows that you want to wash down your food with a bottle of cold, delicious local beer. So here is Martin’s Famously Incomprehensible First Installment of the South East Asia [...]
This is a bottle of liquid band-aid. Today, in an epically clumsy move, I scraped the skin on my hand (I lost a balancing competition with a loose tile on the sidewalk). Still, after applying liquid band-aid, I was out riding a bike and swimming in a pool and doing stuff with no discomfort at [...]
Plan A: Return from Koh Phagnan to Bangkok, drop off our passports at a travel agent (to get our visas for Vietnam), take a quick trip to Ayuttaya, return in 24 hours and whisk them off with us to the airport to catch our flight on the 17th to Ho Chi Minh City.
All that lay between us and Plan A [...]
Siri Hustvedt’s What I Loved.
It’s a story told by an art history professor, living in New York. He befriends a struggling artist, after purchasing one of his early paintings, before the artist “makes it” in the art world. Their friendship and eventual friendship of their wives and children, is chronicled over the course of [...]
Definitely one of those books you would NEVER get around to reading when you’re home. Why would you want to sit down and read a 4700 year old epic, when you can do just about anything else? Like laundry, or watching Jeopardy?
The Gilgamesh Epic deals with the adventures of one Gilgamesh, the king of Uruk [...]
My original desire to do this cleanse was driven by 80% weight loss, 10% general health improvement and 10% to test my self control. I’m not sure my health priorities were straight
This is the new iPod shuffle. As you can tell by the picture it is pretty small, but it still manages to contain all the music I used to keep on my vintage 2004 laptop.
It is a great travel companion on buses and trains when you don’t want to talk to people about who [...]
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