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April 22, 2009 04:07 AM UTC --
Well, the time has come to move on from Gather. The last few months have seen readership numbers and commenters drop. I understand that. People are busy trying to survive the financial mess we all find . . .
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April 15, 2009 04:37 AM UTC --
If life is like a candle bright/Then death must be the wind
You know you can close your window tight/And it still comes blowing in
So I will climb the highest hill/And I'll watch the rising . . .
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April 14, 2009 10:23 AM UTC --
Terrible let down today. I went to visit Sinan's masterpiece, the Sulimaniye Mosque and the interior was closed for renovations. But the outside, the exterior? As Jairazbhoy writes in "An . . .
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April 12, 2009 09:52 AM UTC --
I work hard to be an ass and it's a full time job. I could make all kinds of excuses about my behavior, like India fatigue, the stress of finding a flat and moving in, a new city, etc . . . but . . .
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April 12, 2009 09:50 AM UTC --
Istanbul is first and foremost a city on water. Even the most cursory of looks at the photos will bear that out. But I was reminded by Nate's post on Mexico City's water problems about a . . .
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April 12, 2009 09:43 AM UTC --
I picked up a copy of Lord John Julius Norwich's "Byzantium, the Decline and Fall" yesterday. I read the first volume many years ago in hardcover got sidetracked, missed the middle volume . . .
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April 11, 2009 01:24 PM UTC --
I went back to Asia today, Kadikoy to be exact, old Byzantine Chalcedon. Up here in Beyoglu on the East side of the Golden Horn and even in Sultanhamet and Sulimaniye it's reasonbly warm--around . . .
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April 10, 2009 07:31 AM UTC --
"Epiphanies, after all, are the easy part--it's the acceptance of the everyday that comes hard." ~Pico Iyer.
The last few days have been difficult. For the first time . . .
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April 09, 2009 06:50 AM UTC --
If one had but a single glance to give to the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
It's a big city, Istanbul. Ten million people? Fifteen? Is anyone really sure? Modern Istanbul's name . . .
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April 05, 2009 12:25 PM UTC --
Today was certainly an interesting day. I walked up the hill from my flat to Dolapdere where it all started, watching the preparations for the police parade here in Istanbul, which I mistook . . .
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April 04, 2009 09:20 AM UTC --
The following entry is unedited from my travel journal.
Nine days without journaling? That needs to change. The ink spill in my bag certainly didn't help. Whoever heard of a backpacker . . .
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March 29, 2009 09:25 AM UTC --
Yesterday I looked at a map of Marco Polo's travels. Ever one to be fascinated by what the great Venetian accomplished (although what Ibn Battuta did was even greater in my opinion), I noted . . .
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March 28, 2009 06:15 AM UTC --
Nine months have passed since I left Austin last summer. In the three months since I last looked back upon the genesis and beginning of this journey a lot has changed. The questions I wrestled . . .
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March 28, 2009 04:53 AM UTC --
There was a hurricane here in Oman in 2007. It was a freak event. Never in recorded history, and they have records going a long way back here in Oman and the Arabian Peninsula, had an event like this . . .
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March 25, 2009 11:13 AM UTC --
I had to leave India. I was at the breaking point. I just couldn't stand the place any longer. If all India could be like Kerala then it would be a truly wonderful place to travel in, but it's . . .
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March 19, 2009 12:05 PM UTC --
I'm seriously considering heading to Dubai after I leave India. The Pakistani visa process is not going well at all. And my time, patience and willingness to deal with the sub-Continent are fast . . .
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March 16, 2009 03:33 AM UTC --
My photos of Ajanta are now available for your viewing pleasure. There are about three pages of photos. I may get a post up on Ajanta but then again, I may not. So the photos will have to do for . . .
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March 15, 2009 03:52 AM UTC --
Narayan, in his travel memoir of Karnataka "The Emerald Route" quotes Fergusson, an English traveler and surveyor, approvingly on the monuments surrounding Bijapur: "A group as rich . . .
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March 14, 2009 03:30 AM UTC --
Wow, I have totally neglected my duties here of late. Long story and many apologies. I do have may adventures to relate from the last three weeks. Being sick really sidetracked me. However, I know . . .
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February 23, 2009 10:25 AM UTC --
Nandi, a local Mysore cow (technically a bull) recently learned of California's 'Happy Cow' Campaign and auditions for a 'Fresh Face.' Nandi wants the part.
"Every cow . . .
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