Monthly Archives: August 2011

- First moments in bangkok: riding the water taxi that seemed to me like a water-born  Turkish dolmuş, the haphazard, careening-around-corners, jump-on, jump-off mini buses I became so familiar with in Istanbul. In Bangkok, we seemed to sit right at … Continue reading →

Today, I felt the first breath of cool air for the first time in two months, and it was glorious. In celebration of this weather, I took a short walk in the evening, and my mind turned to travel (conditioned … Continue reading →