Tag: reflectionsontheroad
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July 04, 2007 11:04 AM EDT --
(Part 3 of 4. To begin at Part 1, click HERE)
The next morning, my first full day in Asia, I had a simple goal: to find . . .
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June 20, 2007 07:41 AM EDT --
(Part 2 of 4 -- to read Part 1, click HERE)
The plane banked left to line up with the runway on the edge of hazy Minneapolis. After a ninety-minute . . .
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December 19, 2007 10:59 AM EST --
To begin at Part One, click HERE
Eighteen hours later, through the fog of a powerful drug, I awoke to what at first I genuinely . . .
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December 05, 2007 11:52 AM EST --
He was about 6'4" and said he was from Kuwait, though later an official at the U.S. consulate would tell me he was likely from . . .
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January 02, 2008 03:03 PM EST --
I'm doing something a little different for this week's column. Instead of a "crafted" article, I'm simply posting a . . .
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August 18, 2008 10:03 AM EDT --
In November 2004, more than a year into my journey across Asia, I had the opportunity to spend a week in Georgia. . . .
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July 18, 2007 08:42 PM EDT --
(Part 4 of 4. To begin at Part 1, click HERE)
Four days later, sitting alone on the Great Wall at Simatai, sixty-five . . .
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October 12, 2007 08:53 AM EDT --
THE SETTING
Most of my 34-year-old peers are married with children. They live in homes and, with few exceptions, have jobs for which . . .
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November 21, 2007 10:12 AM EST --
Six years have passed since that morning, but still today, when I come across that dusty and tattered book now tucked away in a . . .
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January 16, 2008 08:51 PM EST --
In the spirit of the " Excerpts from a Manuscript " posts I did almost three months ago, which looked at Asia, I thought . . .
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March 28, 2008 12:45 PM EDT --
On my laptop is a Word document in which three years ago I typed up my favorite passages - 4,000 words worth - from Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers . . .
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June 06, 2008 08:52 AM EDT --
It was dusk now and the bus continued its rumble west on the Grand Trunk Road. We were two hours out of Rawalpindi and still . . .
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June 19, 2008 10:30 AM EDT --
TO BEGIN AT PART ONE, CLICK HERE
Mian said goodbye and the bus continued on toward Peshawar. It was . . .
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June 06, 2007 11:33 PM EDT --
(This is the first in a four-part installment recounting the start of my 14-month journey across Asia, which began in October 2003.) . . .
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July 17, 2008 11:23 PM EDT --
An Old Mosque
The Hazreti Suleyman Camii is a twelfth-century mosque in the Kurdish city of Diyarbakir that . . .
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November 12, 2008 08:36 AM EST --
It goes without saying that for most of his presidency George Bush was, as CNN's Christiane Amanpour once termed . . .
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January 09, 2009 06:05 PM EST --
On Day Seven of my all-too-short visit to Nicaragua, I said goodbye to friends who had wonderfully hosted me in their Managua . . .
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February 02, 2007 01:38 PM EST --
PART I – THE SETTING
I was in Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad, and in several weeks I would be traveling to China over the 15,397-foot . . .
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February 29, 2008 04:18 PM EST --
The following story, based on a 2004 visit to Bangkok and set largely in a strip club, is one of the more sensitive pieces I've . . .
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April 15, 2008 09:01 PM EDT --
To begin at Part One of this two-part series, click HERE
December 2006
Twenty-six months later I'm standing . . .
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