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Adventures and Misadventures in the Philippines, Last Stop on the Voyage of Rediscovery

Adventures and Misadventures in the Philippines, Last Stop on the Voyage of Rediscovery

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Initially I didn’t plan to visit the Philippines since the country was not on my prime list for relocation. I’d never been to the Philippines before, and it seemed the responses of most people who spent time there were either to love it, or to express something less than love for it. It was a bit serendipitous that I got convinced to visit the country during a service call with Comcast customer service just prior to my departure in February,…

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Flowers and gentle smiles in Bali as the Voyage of Rediscovery Begins to Wind Down

Flowers and gentle smiles in Bali as the Voyage of Rediscovery Begins to Wind Down

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I think everyone has their own image and, when they’ve been there, experience of Bali. It can be idolized as Paradise on earth, and it also can be seen as dirty, trendy, over-hyped. I didn’t know what to expect in the four days I planned to spend there, so I can say I wasn’t disappointed. I confess I am writing this piece after my Voyage of Rediscovery has come to an end, already back at what passes for home for…

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Big Buildings, Beautiful Nature, and More to Contemplate in Malaysia as the Voyage of Rediscovery Goes on

Big Buildings, Beautiful Nature, and More to Contemplate in Malaysia as the Voyage of Rediscovery Goes on

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Those are the famous Petronis Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia’s buzzing capital city. You may recall them in the nail-biter film Entrapment, starring Catherine Zeta-Jones and Sean Connery. The film was made in 1999, a year after the towers’ completion, and they were the tallest buildings in the world at the time, a title they held until 2004. Silly me, during my recent brief time in KL, as Kuala Lumpur is commonly known, I thought they still were the world’s…

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Passion, Pleasure, and Green Curry in Thailand on My Voyage of Rediscovery

Passion, Pleasure, and Green Curry in Thailand on My Voyage of Rediscovery

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  In my novel Don’t Try Any of This, second volume in the Little Rosie Trilogy, the main character arrives in Bangkok and expresses the differences she sees in the city from Paris, where she has been living. “Bangkok is so different from Paris. I can see that right away, from the moment we arrive and step out of the plane. And I see more of the differences on our first day here, a day of R&R after that long…

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Back to the Island on Gran Canaria on my Voyage of Rediscovery

Back to the Island on Gran Canaria on my Voyage of Rediscovery

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  I am writing this long delayed piece while in Malaysia, two countries and a third of the world past my time on Gran Canaria, part of Spain’s Canary Islands. Not counting plane stops and brief diversions, I’m now in my eighth country and at the end of my ninth week, two more countries and weeks to go until I return to what I currently consider home. Trying to put everything in perspective, to put all the pieces together in…

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