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Even the people resisting the transition know they’re no longer fighting for their way of life. They’re just fighting to keep the thinnest resemblance of what they’ve always known around until they leave this world. They’re fighting to keep from having to watch the death of everything they know. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2013/05/all-the-pretty-beaches" title="All the Pretty Beaches"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2013/stgeorgeisland_1.jpg" alt="All the Pretty Beaches" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2013/05/all-the-pretty-beaches" class="u-url" title="All the Pretty Beaches">All the Pretty Beaches</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2013-05-26T22:43:23">May <span>26, 2013</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">St. George Island</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Florida</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="29.65981806259071"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-84.87047444700387"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + St. George is just off the Gulf Coast of northwest Florida, only about 7 hours from where I live. There are better places if you're looking to dive or snorkel. Ditto if it's nightlife you're after. But if you're looking for a seemingly endless amount of gorgeous white sand beaches you'll share with only a few migratory birds, St. George is the place to be. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2013/05/consider-the-apalachicola-oyster" title="Consider the Apalachicola Oyster"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2013/considertheoyster.jpg" alt="Consider the Apalachicola Oyster" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2013/05/consider-the-apalachicola-oyster" class="u-url" title="Consider the Apalachicola Oyster">Consider the Apalachicola Oyster</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2013-05-22T19:43:23">May <span>22, 2013</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Apalachicola</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Florida</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="29.72867205648089"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-84.98378973124662"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + If you know the name Apalachicola at all it’s likely because of its eponymous oysters. Very few things, let alone culinary things, are as attached to place as oysters. In fact, once you get beyond the Rockefeller, ordering “oysters” is akin to walking in a bar and ordering “a beer.” But unlike beer, oysters don’t have brands, they have places — Pemaquid, Wellfleet, Blue Point, Apalachicola. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2012/05/things-behind-sun" title="Things Behind the Sun"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2012/tucsonblur.jpg" alt="Things Behind the Sun" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2012/05/things-behind-sun" class="u-url" title="Things Behind the Sun">Things Behind the Sun</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2012-05-20T22:47:00">May <span>20, 2012</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Athens</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Georgia</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.95674257719642"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-83.37592612645985"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + My grandparents left the home they lived in for 60 years today. I don't know how much of my life was spent in that house, probably well over a year if you added up all the holidays and family gatherings. And now I'm thousands of miles away and someone is clearing out the house. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2012/03/street-food-athens-georgia" title="Street Food in Athens Georgia"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2012/foodcart1.jpg" alt="Street Food in Athens Georgia" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2012/03/street-food-athens-georgia" class="u-url" title="Street Food in Athens Georgia">Street Food in Athens Georgia</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2012-03-31T21:56:00">March <span>31, 2012</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Athens</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Georgia</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.959861666904274"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-83.37601195713451"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Cheap food, made fresh, in front of you. Served hot, wrapped in newspaper. Street food is the people's food, it removes the mystery of the kitchen, lays the process bare. It's also the staple diet of people around the world. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2011/10/worst-place-on-earth" title="The Worst Place on Earth"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2011/gilitrawangan.jpg" alt="The Worst Place on Earth" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2011/10/worst-place-on-earth" class="u-url" title="The Worst Place on Earth">The Worst Place on Earth</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2011-10-17T22:33:00">October <span>17, 2011</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Gili Trawangan</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/indonesia/" title="travel writing from Indonesia">Indonesia</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="-8.348272379374615"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="116.0405144294601"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + They aren't really the worst place on Earth (everyone knows that's Yuma, AZ), but the Gili Islands would top my list of places you should never go to. In the end they're not even a real place, just a collection of paradise fantasies culled from decades of hippie travelers, scuba divers, honeymooners, and the rich, lost children of the West. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2011/06/best-snorkeling-world" title="The Best Snorkeling in the World"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2011/scuba_nusa_lembongan_ccFlickr.jpg" alt="The Best Snorkeling in the World" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2011/06/best-snorkeling-world" class="u-url" title="The Best Snorkeling in the World">The Best Snorkeling in the World</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2011-06-23T12:54:00">June <span>23, 2011</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Nusa Lembongan, Bali</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/indonesia/" title="travel writing from Indonesia">Indonesia</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="-8.667603048330891"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="115.44832559441208"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Drift snorkeling is like watching fish float by the window of an underwater train. And Indonesia has more marine life than anywhere I've ever been. Fish I have previously seen perhaps two or three at a time are swimming in massive schools. The blue depths are filled with dozens of Moorish Idols, schools of deep purple tangs, so dark they look black until you get up close, parrotfish in clusters, munching on the coral, bright, powder blue tangs, yellow-masked angelfish, countless butterfly fish, wrasses, triggerfish, pufferfish and even bright blue starfish that crawl slowly over the reef. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2011/06/temple-ceremony-ubud" title="The Balinese Temple Ceremony"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2011/ubud-ceremony.jpg" alt="The Balinese Temple Ceremony" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2011/06/temple-ceremony-ubud" class="u-url" title="The Balinese Temple Ceremony">The Balinese Temple Ceremony</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2011-06-19T10:25:00">June <span>19, 2011</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Ubud, Bali</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/indonesia/" title="travel writing from Indonesia">Indonesia</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="-8.480557093648551"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="115.26582809308304"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + While Balinese temples look partly like Hindu temples in India, there are other elements that come from older religions. Bali is what happens when Hindu beliefs collide with animism. The Balinese seem to embrace the basic tenants of traditional Hinduism, but then add plenty of their own animist flourishes to the mix -- like frequent and elaborate temple ceremonies. We were lucky enough to be invited to a temple ceremony in Tegallantang, Bali. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2011/06/motor-city-burning" title="Motor City is Burning"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2011/ricepaddies-h.jpg" alt="Motor City is Burning" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2011/06/motor-city-burning" class="u-url" title="Motor City is Burning">Motor City is Burning</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2011-06-16T20:05:00">June <span>16, 2011</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Ubud, Bali</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/indonesia/" title="travel writing from Indonesia">Indonesia</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="-8.512942106321157"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="115.26119323594054"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Awesome as it was to be back on the Asian version of a motorbike, it wasn't quite the relaxing riding I did in Laos and elsewhere. You can never recapture the magic, and I wasn't trying.... Okay, maybe I was, but it didn't work. regrettably Honda seems to have phased out the Dream in the last five years, replacing it with something called the Nitro, which just doesn't have the same ring to it. But the bike is irrelevant, was always irrelevant. I missed my friends. It just wasn't the same by myself. Debi, Matt, where are you? There are roads to be ridden, locals with ten people on a bike to be humbled by. Six fingered men to be seen, by some. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2011/06/cooking-rome" title="Cooking in Rome"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2011/rome-h.jpg" alt="Cooking in Rome" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2011/06/cooking-rome" class="u-url" title="Cooking in Rome">Cooking in Rome</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2011-06-14T17:18:00">June <span>14, 2011</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Rome</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/italy/" title="travel writing from Italy">Italy</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="41.865455693141165"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="12.461011283881284"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + In the end Italy and I didn't really get along, but the food redeemed it for me. The restaurants are good, but if you really want to experience the glory of Italian food you need to head to the market, grab some utterly amazing raw ingredients and whip up something yourself. This is what food is supposed to be, simple, fresh and great. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2011/06/natural-science" title="Natural Science"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2011/florenceh.jpg" alt="Natural Science" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2011/06/natural-science" class="u-url" title="Natural Science">Natural Science</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2011-06-10T20:54:00">June <span>10, 2011</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Firenze (Florence)</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/italy/" title="travel writing from Italy">Italy</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="43.76987122050593"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="11.254618042254865"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + There's no way around it; Florence is crowded. It may well be that Naples is the only Italian city that isn't overrun with tourists in the summer, but after three days of hardly seeing another traveler, I wasn't prepared for the crowds. Luckily it isn't hard to avoid the tourist hordes, just get up early and then when everyone else is starting to stir, head for obscure museums like La Specola, part of the Museo di Storia Naturale di Firenze. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2011/06/forever-today" title="Forever Today"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2011/pompeiih.jpg" alt="Forever Today" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2011/06/forever-today" class="u-url" title="Forever Today">Forever Today</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2011-06-07T17:50:00">June <span>7, 2011</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Pompeii</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/italy/" title="travel writing from Italy">Italy</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="40.75211491821789"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="14.480285518306573"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Pompeii feels both very old and not that different from the modern cities that surround it now. The gap between then and now feels small because when you wander around places like Pompeii you realize that human beings have changed very little over vast expanses of time. Pompeii had the same elements of cities today, a central square, markets, temples, government offices, even fast food. Not much has changed over the years, though togas aren’t much in vogue these days. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2011/06/new-pollution" title="The New Pollution"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2011/naplesh.jpg" alt="The New Pollution" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2011/06/new-pollution" class="u-url" title="The New Pollution">The New Pollution</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2011-06-06T08:17:00">June <span>6, 2011</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Napoli (Naples)</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/italy/" title="travel writing from Italy">Italy</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="40.84484016249223"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="14.255757801685807"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Naples Italy is a big, crowded, graffiti-filled city. It's an intimidating place that is by turns a bit like Philadelphia, a bit Mumbai, a bit some post-apocalyptic video game and, in the end, something else entirely. Still, given the tourist epidemic that sweeps Italy every summer, Naples is a place worth appreciating for what it is not, even if what is isn't, perhaps, enough to ever bring you back. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2011/06/language-cities" title="The Language of Cities"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2011/stchappelle.jpg" alt="The Language of Cities" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2011/06/language-cities" class="u-url" title="The Language of Cities">The Language of Cities</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2011-06-04T00:05:00">June <span>4, 2011</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Paris</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/france/" title="travel writing from France">France</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="48.85846248575372"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="2.3375712584730373"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Paris is angry. Cities can get angry. This isn't the first time it's happened to me. New York threw me out once. Los Angeles and I left on mutually hostile terms, though we've since made up. Cities have personalities just like people, and to really be part of a city your personalities have to mesh, you have to find each other on your own terms everyday. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2011/05/from-here-we-go-sublime" title="From Here We Go Sublime"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2011/iceland.jpg" alt="From Here We Go Sublime" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2011/05/from-here-we-go-sublime" class="u-url" title="From Here We Go Sublime">From Here We Go Sublime</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2011-05-29T02:35:00">May <span>29, 2011</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Paris</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/france/" title="travel writing from France">France</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="48.861291192122714"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="2.3879055928465687"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Just arrived Dulles-Reykjavik-Paris, 26-hour trip, no sleep. I see things. I see a grizzly looking Spaniard selling old railway lanterns at the flea market, I see muslim men playing basketball in skull caps, I see a Michael Faraday experiment with bulbs and wires enclosed in glass that turns out to be just an elevator. I see a stout Frenchwoman closing the gates of Pere Lachaise, no more dead, we've had enough of you. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2011/03/we-used-wait-it" title="We Used to Wait For It"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2011/losangeles11h.jpg" alt="We Used to Wait For It" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2011/03/we-used-wait-it" class="u-url" title="We Used to Wait For It">We Used to Wait For It</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2011-03-28T21:50:00">March <span>28, 2011</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Los Angeles</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">California</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="34.04477171337467"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-118.25204621066614"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + When we first came here, there was nothing. Downtown Los Angeles was an empty husk of a place fifteen years ago. Now it's reborn, alive and kicking. Yet there is something in the older buildings, something in the old walls, something lost in the bricks, something in the concrete, the marble. Something you don’t find anymore. Something we need to find again. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2011/01/world-outside" title="The World Outside"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2011/snowh.jpg" alt="The World Outside" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2011/01/world-outside" class="u-url" title="The World Outside">The World Outside</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2011-01-26T11:56:00">January <span>26, 2011</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Athens</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Georgia</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.96016249314553"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-83.4028816107045"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The world outside the house is blanketed in snow, a monochrome of white interrupted only by the dark, wet trunks of trees, the red brick of chimneys, the occasional green of shrubs poking through. The roads are unbroken expanses of smooth white, no one is out yet, no footprints track their way through the snowy sidewalk. The world outside is the same as it was last night, before the snow began, and yet, it feels totally different. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2011/01/charleston-a-z" title="Charleston A-Z"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2011/charleston-h_1.jpg" alt="Charleston A-Z" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2011/01/charleston-a-z" class="u-url" title="Charleston A-Z">Charleston A-Z</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2011-01-18T15:29:00">January <span>18, 2011</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Charleston</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">South Carolina</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="32.78595765272612"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-79.9366307147337"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Charleston alphabetically. For example, <strong>Q</strong> is for quiet, Charleston has a lot of it. Just head down to the Battery area, walk through the park and starting walking down the side streets. Take one of the many alleys and walkways that weave between the massive, stately houses. Get lost. It doesn't take much to find a quiet place of your own. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/08/dinosaur-national-monument-part-two-down-river" title="Dinosaur National Monument, Part Two: Down the River"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/lodorecanyonh.jpg" alt="Dinosaur National Monument, Part Two: Down the River" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/08/dinosaur-national-monument-part-two-down-river" class="u-url" title="Dinosaur National Monument, Part Two: Down the River">Dinosaur National Monument, Part Two: Down the River</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-08-02T09:00:00">August <span>2, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Dinosaur National Monument</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Colorado</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="40.457462390627"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-109.2584323730928"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + This is the only real way to see Dinosaur National Monument — you must journey down the river. There are two major rivers running through Dinosaur, the Yampa, which carves through Yampa Canyon, and the Green, which cuts through Lodore. <a href="http://www.adventureboundusa.com/" title="Adventure Bound Rafting">Adventure Bound Rafting</a> runs some of the best whitewater rafting trips in Colorado and I was lucky enough to go down the Green River with them, through the majestic Lodore Canyon. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/07/dinosaur-national-monument-part-one-echo-park" title="Dinosaur National Monument, Part One: Echo Park"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/dinosaurh.jpg" alt="Dinosaur National Monument, Part One: Echo Park" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/07/dinosaur-national-monument-part-one-echo-park" class="u-url" title="Dinosaur National Monument, Part One: Echo Park">Dinosaur National Monument, Part One: Echo Park</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-07-28T17:00:00">July <span>28, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Dinosaur National Monument</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Colorado</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="40.52063402652926"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-108.99388073317648"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Dinosaur National Monument was poorly named. The best parts of it are not the fossils in the quarry (which is closed for 2010 anyway) but the canyon country — some of the best, most remote canyon country you'll find in this part of the world. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/07/endless-crowds-yellowstone" title="The Endless Crowds of Yellowstone"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/yellowstoneh.jpg" alt="The Endless Crowds of Yellowstone" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/07/endless-crowds-yellowstone" class="u-url" title="The Endless Crowds of Yellowstone">The Endless Crowds of Yellowstone</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-07-25T14:00:00">July <span>25, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Yellowstone National Park</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Wyoming</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="44.46180292448713"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-110.82196979172171"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + There is wilderness in Yellowstone, even if it's just inches from the boardwalks that transport thousands around the geothermal pools. It may not be wilderness on a grand scale — the sweeping mountain peaks or wild rivers of other parks — but in some ways that makes it more enticing. As one Ranger told me, Yellowstone isn't about the big picture, the grand scenery, it's about the tiny details within each pool. To really see Yellowstone, he said, you have to take your time, move slowly and look closely. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/07/backpacking-grand-tetons" title="Backpacking in the Grand Tetons"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/grandtetonsh.jpg" alt="Backpacking in the Grand Tetons" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/07/backpacking-grand-tetons" class="u-url" title="Backpacking in the Grand Tetons">Backpacking in the Grand Tetons</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-07-22T17:00:00">July <span>22, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Grand Teton National Park</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Wyoming</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="43.79315431684632"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-110.79651831037907"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Hiking into the wilderness empties your mind. You fall into the silence of the mountains and you can relax in a way that's very difficult to do in the midst of civilization. The white noise that surrounds us in our everyday lives, that noise we don't even notice as it adds thin layers of stress that build up over days, weeks, years, does not seem capable of following us into the mountains. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/07/great-sand-dunes-national-park" title="Great Sand Dunes National Park"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/greatsanddunesh_4.jpg" alt="Great Sand Dunes National Park" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/07/great-sand-dunes-national-park" class="u-url" title="Great Sand Dunes National Park">Great Sand Dunes National Park</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-07-17T09:00:00">July <span>17, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Great Sand Dunes National Park</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Colorado</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="37.72673718028319"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-105.55097578487117"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Something about the desert inspires me to get up early and watch the sunrise. The cool mornings seem worth getting up for out here in the high plains of Colorado, especially when there's the chance to watch the sunrise from the largest sand dunes in North America, here in Great Sand Dune National Park. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/07/comanche-national-grasslands" title="Comanche National Grasslands"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/comanchenationalgrasslands.jpg" alt="Comanche National Grasslands" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/07/comanche-national-grasslands" class="u-url" title="Comanche National Grasslands">Comanche National Grasslands</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-07-16T13:00:00">July <span>16, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Comanche National Grasslands</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Colorado</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="37.14748995999048"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-103.0095720147769"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + To say the Comanche National Grasslands is off the grid would be an understatement. With the exception of Highway 50 in Nevada, I've never driven through such isolation and vast openness anywhere in the world. And it's easy to get lost. 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<h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/07/why-national-parks-are-better-state-parks" class="u-url" title="Why National Parks Are Better Than State Parks">Why National Parks Are Better Than State Parks</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-07-15T10:00:00">July <span>15, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Amarillo</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Texas</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="35.18854030957816"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-101.9194793559329"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + There are many reasons, but here's the one I currently consider most important: National Parks never close. Take Palo Dura State park outside of Amarillo, Texas. Were it a National Park, I would be there right now. But it's not, it's a state park and so I'm sitting in a hotel room in Amarillo because everyone knows nature closes at 10PM. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/07/legend-billy-the-kid" title="The Legend of Billy the Kid"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/billythekidmuseum.jpg" alt="The Legend of Billy the Kid" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/07/legend-billy-the-kid" class="u-url" title="The Legend of Billy the Kid">The Legend of Billy the Kid</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-07-11T18:00:00">July <span>11, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Hico</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Texas</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="31.981920692582488"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-98.03087709969479"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + History rarely offers neat, tidy stories. But the messier, more confusing and more controversial the story becomes, the more it works its way into our imaginations. The legend of Billy the Kid is like that of Amelia Earhart or D.B. Cooper — the less we know for sure, the more compelling the story becomes. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/07/dixie-drug-store" title="The Dixie Drug Store"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/nopharmacymuseum01.jpg" alt="The Dixie Drug Store" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/07/dixie-drug-store" class="u-url" title="The Dixie Drug Store">The Dixie Drug Store</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-07-08T17:00:00">July <span>8, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">New Orleans</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Louisiana</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="29.955903613807074"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-90.06511865792525"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + New Orleans is it's own world. So much so that's it's impossible to put your finger on what it is that makes it different. New Orleans is a place where the line between consensus reality and private dream seems to have never fully developed. And a wonderful world it is. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/07/begin-the-begin" title="Begin the Begin"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/gulf_port_beach.jpg" alt="Begin the Begin" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/07/begin-the-begin" class="u-url" title="Begin the Begin">Begin the Begin</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-07-05T22:00:00">July <span>5, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Gulf Port</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Mississippi</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="30.380400296597216"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-89.03081058216594"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + It's travel time again. This time I'm driving my 1969 Ford truck out west, to Texas, Colorado, Utah and more — a road trip around the western United States. The first stop is Gulf Port, Mississippi. It's hard to believe, sitting here on the deserted beaches of Gulf Shore, watching the sun break through the ominous clouds, but soon this beauty will be gone. The BP oil spill is somewhere out there, blown slowly ashore by the storm hovering over us, waiting to drown the beaches in crude. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/05/los-angeles-im-yours" title="Los Angeles, I'm Yours"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/launionsubway.jpg" alt="Los Angeles, I'm Yours" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/05/los-angeles-im-yours" class="u-url" title="Los Angeles, I'm Yours">Los Angeles, I’m Yours</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-05-17T16:43:18">May <span>17, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Los Angeles</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">California</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="34.05582387432624"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-118.23588250455148"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Los Angeles is all about the car. Shiny, air-conditioned comfort, gliding you soundlessly from one place to another without the need to interact with anything in between. But I have discovered that if you abandon the car for the subway and your own two feet, the illusion that L.A. is just a model train set world — tiny, plastic and devoid of any ground beneath the ground — fades and you find yourself, for a time, in a real city. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/04/death-valley" title="(There'll Be) Peace in the Valley"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/deathvalley.jpg" alt="(There'll Be) Peace in the Valley" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/04/death-valley" class="u-url" title="(There'll Be) Peace in the Valley">(There’ll Be) Peace in the Valley</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-04-24T11:45:59">April <span>24, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Death Valley</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">California</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="36.42090257717807"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-116.80985925955854"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Sometimes you ignore the places close to home because, well, there's always next weekend. Which is why I never made it Death Valley in the twenty-five years I lived in California. It took being all the way across the country to get me out to Death Valley. Which might explain why I actually got up before dawn just to watch the sunrise at Zabriskie Point. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/03/so-far-i-have-not-found-science" title="So Far, I Have Not Found The Science"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/okeefenokee.jpg" alt="So Far, I Have Not Found The Science" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/03/so-far-i-have-not-found-science" class="u-url" title="So Far, I Have Not Found The Science">So Far, I Have Not Found The Science</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-03-13T12:50:48">March <span>13, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Okefenokee Swamp</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Georgia</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="30.913415518451895"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-82.1832228795993"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + A canoe trip through the Okefenokee Swamp down in the southern most corner of Georgia. Paddling the strange reddish and incredibly still waters. Begging alligators, aching muscles and the kindly folks of Stintson's Barbecue all getting their due. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2009/05/how-to-get-your-butt-and-travel-world" title="How to Get Off Your Butt and Travel the World"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2009/traveltheworld.jpg" alt="How to Get Off Your Butt and Travel the World" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2009/05/how-to-get-your-butt-and-travel-world" class="u-url" title="How to Get Off Your Butt and Travel the World">How to Get Off Your Butt and Travel the World</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2009-05-03T19:39:16">May <span>3, 2009</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Athens</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Georgia</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.95763520280544"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-83.40871809752001"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + How do you make the leap from cubicle daydreams to life on to the road? You want to travel the world, but, like me, you have a million excuses stopping you. How do overcome the inertia that keeps you trapped in a life that isn't what you want it to be? Here's a few practical tips and how tos designed to motivate you to get off your butt and travel the world. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2009/04/strangers-on-a-train" title="No Strangers on a Train"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2009/strangersonatrain.jpg" alt="No Strangers on a Train" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2009/04/strangers-on-a-train" class="u-url" title="No Strangers on a Train">No Strangers on a Train</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2009-04-13T19:36:13">April <span>13, 2009</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Athens</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Georgia</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.95818694160937"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-83.40824602873336"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + We mythologize trains because they harken back to an age of community travel, a real, tangible community of travelers, not just backpackers, but people from all walks of life, people traveling near and far together in a shared space that isn't locked down like an airplane and isn't isolated like a car; it's a shared travel experience and there are precious few of those left in our world. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2008/12/leonardo-da-vinci-and-codex-bunnies" title="Leonardo Da Vinci and the Codex on Bunnies"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2009/codexofbunnies.jpg" alt="Leonardo Da Vinci and the Codex on Bunnies" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2008/12/leonardo-da-vinci-and-codex-bunnies" class="u-url" title="Leonardo Da Vinci and the Codex on Bunnies">Leonardo Da Vinci and the Codex on Bunnies</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2008-12-09T18:18:33">December <span>9, 2008</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Birmingham</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Alabama</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.521441993672646"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-86.81079982502803"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + A few pages from Leonardo Da Vinci's notebooks make a rare trip outside Italy, to Birmingham, AL, of all places. But the Birmingham Museum of Art is home to far more alarming works of art, works which depict the eventual, inevitable, bunny takeover, after which all the elements of our reality will be replaced by bunnies. Seriously. You heard it here first. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2008/10/elkmont-and-great-smoky-mountains" title="Elkmont and the Great Smoky Mountains"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/reflectedtrees.jpg" alt="Elkmont and the Great Smoky Mountains" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2008/10/elkmont-and-great-smoky-mountains" class="u-url" title="Elkmont and the Great Smoky Mountains">Elkmont and the Great Smoky Mountains</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2008-10-31T15:16:13">October <span>31, 2008</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Great Smoky Mountains</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Tennessee</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="35.680446234758236"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-83.65024565485956"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Pigeon Forge is Myrtle Beach in the mountains. Redneck weddings cascade straight out of the chapel and into the mini golf reception area. Pigeon Forge is everything that's wrong with America. But we aren't here for Pigeon Forge, it just happens to have a free condo we're staying in. We're here for the mountains. Smoky Mountain National Park is just a few miles up the road. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2008/07/rope-swings-and-river-floats" title="Rope Swings and River Floats"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/chestateeriver.jpg" alt="Rope Swings and River Floats" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2008/07/rope-swings-and-river-floats" class="u-url" title="Rope Swings and River Floats">Rope Swings and River Floats</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2008-07-27T20:14:49">July <span>27, 2008</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Mountain Cabin</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Georgia</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="34.53463159921271"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-83.90280245566663"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Two weekends ago we went up to the mountains, just outside of Dahlonega GA, and floated the Chestatee River using inner tubes, various pool toys and one super-cool inflatable seahorse. Unfortunately, proving one of my travel mottos -- you can never go back -- a return trip proved disastrous. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2008/07/our-days-are-becoming-nights" title="Our Days Are Becoming Nights"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/daysnights.jpg" alt="Our Days Are Becoming Nights" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2008/07/our-days-are-becoming-nights" class="u-url" title="Our Days Are Becoming Nights">Our Days Are Becoming Nights</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2008-07-06T23:30:25">July <span>6, 2008</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">León</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/nicaragua/" title="travel writing from Nicaragua">Nicaragua</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="12.436482242903942"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-86.88458203059939"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + A short thought on the eve of our departure from Nicaragua: Everywhere I go I think, I should live here... I should be able to not just visit places, but in habit them. Of course that isn't possible, which is too bad. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2008/07/tiny-cities-made-ash" title="Tiny Cities Made of Ash"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/citiesmadeofash.jpg" alt="Tiny Cities Made of Ash" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2008/07/tiny-cities-made-ash" class="u-url" title="Tiny Cities Made of Ash">Tiny Cities Made of Ash</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2008-07-03T23:21:22">July <span>3, 2008</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">León</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/nicaragua/" title="travel writing from Nicaragua">Nicaragua</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="12.435654551658532"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-86.88220022899453"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The church bells of León have become a constant cacophony, not the rhythmic ringing out of the hours or tolling from Mass that the human mind seems to find pleasant, but the atonal banging that only appeals to the young and dumb. But Francisco is entirely unperturbed; He's too fascinated with the tattoo on Corrinne's shoulder to bother with what slowly just becomes yet another sound echoing through León. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2008/06/you-cant-go-home-again" title="You Can't Go Home Again"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/nohomeagain.jpg" alt="You Can't Go Home Again" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2008/06/you-cant-go-home-again" class="u-url" title="You Can't Go Home Again">You Can’t Go Home Again</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2008-06-30T17:49:43">June <span>30, 2008</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Little Corn Island</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/nicaragua/" title="travel writing from Nicaragua">Nicaragua</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="12.289688381766881"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-82.97098158635038"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The first time we came to Little Corn Island it was April, the tail end of the dry season. It rained once or twice, but never for more than five minutes and always followed by more sunshine. This time it's the end of June, just well into the wet season, and the island is an entirely different place. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2008/06/returning-again-back-little-corn-island" title="Returning Again &mdash; Back on Little Corn Island"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/littlecornagain.jpg" alt="Returning Again &mdash; Back on Little Corn Island" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2008/06/returning-again-back-little-corn-island" class="u-url" title="Returning Again &mdash; Back on Little Corn Island">Returning Again — Back on Little Corn Island</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2008-06-26T13:21:17">June <span>26, 2008</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Little Corn Island</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/nicaragua/" title="travel writing from Nicaragua">Nicaragua</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="12.290694745245395"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-82.97132490910438"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Generally speaking, the world seems so huge and so full of amazing destinations that repeating one never struck me as a judicious use of my short allotment of time. But for Little Corn Island I'm willing to make an exception and of course, the universe being what it is, our second trip to Little Corn Island has been unpredictable and entirely new. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2008/06/love-with-a-view-vagabonds-responsibilty-living-we" title="In Love With a View: Vagabonds, Responsibilty and Living Well"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/wrong.jpg" alt="In Love With a View: Vagabonds, Responsibilty and Living Well" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2008/06/love-with-a-view-vagabonds-responsibilty-living-we" class="u-url" title="In Love With a View: Vagabonds, Responsibilty and Living Well">In Love With a View: Vagabonds, Responsibilty and Living Well</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2008-06-07T14:45:29">June <span>7, 2008</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Athens</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Georgia</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.944877470043906"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-83.38860689432926"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Why all the vitriol about a seemingly innocuous concept -- that traveling doesn't have to cost a lot of money, isn't all that difficult and hey, you can even go right now? People like us, who feel tied down by responsibility, find the suggestion that we actually aren't tied down patronizing and yes, elitist. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2008/04/little-island-sun" title="Little Island in the Sun"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/coconutsun.jpg" alt="Little Island in the Sun" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2008/04/little-island-sun" class="u-url" title="Little Island in the Sun">Little Island in the Sun</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2008-04-05T23:31:15">April <span>5, 2008</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Little Corn Island</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/nicaragua/" title="travel writing from Nicaragua">Nicaragua</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="12.297403736673346"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-82.97458647526604"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + We arrived on Little Corn Island around sundown and met Ali, whom I at first took to be a tout, but he showed us the way to our guesthouse and, after settling in and getting a feel for the island, I realized that Ali, wasn't a tout, he was just a really nice guy who enjoyed doing favors for tourists, just beware the Yoni beverage he offers. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2008/04/return-sea" title="Return to the Sea"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/sanjuansunset.jpg" alt="Return to the Sea" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2008/04/return-sea" class="u-url" title="Return to the Sea">Return to the Sea</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2008-04-02T20:22:29">April <span>2, 2008</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">San Juan Del Sur</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/nicaragua/" title="travel writing from Nicaragua">Nicaragua</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="11.254384499067603"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-85.8734750628141"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Southwestern Nicaragua is a very small strip of land with Lago Nicaragua to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. The main town in the area, Juan Del Sur, is nestled around a well protected harbor with a mediocre strip of sand. For the nice beaches you have to head up or down the coast to one of the many small inlets. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2008/03/ring-bells" title="Ring The Bells"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/ringthbells.jpg" alt="Ring The Bells" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2008/03/ring-bells" class="u-url" title="Ring The Bells">Ring The Bells</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2008-03-30T23:37:40">March <span>30, 2008</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Granada</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/nicaragua/" title="travel writing from Nicaragua">Nicaragua</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="11.932062265861589"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-85.95813630814854"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The Church, which dates from the 1600s has the the narrowest, steepest, circular concrete staircase that I've ever encountered. It had a low railing and circled up four stories worth of precipitous dropoffs before you hit solid ground. From the top was a views of Granada's endless sea of mottled pink, orange and brown hues -- terra cotta roof tiles stretching from the shores of Lago Nicaragua all the way back toward the hills. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2007/11/fall" title="Fall"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/fall.jpg" alt="Fall" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2007/11/fall" class="u-url" title="Fall">Fall</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2007-11-14T02:25:17">November <span>14, 2007</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Athens</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Georgia</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.9448641194789"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-83.38856934340312"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The trees are in full technicolor swing. The land is slowly dying, and not just because it's Fall, we're also in the middle of a prolonged drought and this year the leaves are opting for a James Dean-style, leave-a-good-looking-corpse exit. If you're a leaf and you've got to go, do it with class. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2007/07/other-ocean" title="On The Other Ocean"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/sailing.jpg" alt="On The Other Ocean" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2007/07/other-ocean" class="u-url" title="On The Other Ocean">On The Other Ocean</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2007-07-23T11:24:44">July <span>23, 2007</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Catalina Island</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">California</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.46191438592164"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-118.52130172987002"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Consider what would happen if your house were tilted 30 degrees to the left, how this would complicate ordinary activities -- like say walking. Now throw in a bouncing motion that lifts the floor five or six feet up and down in a seesaw-like motion on a perpendicular axis to the 30 degree tilt -- things become more like riding a seesaw that's attached to a merry-go-round which is missing a few bolts. That's sailing. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2007/06/being-there" title="Being There"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/myrtlebeachcrap.jpg" alt="Being There" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2007/06/being-there" class="u-url" title="Being There">Being There</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2007-06-17T02:18:54">June <span>17, 2007</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Myrtle Beach Airport</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">South Carolina</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.683925130931456"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-78.92835615966725"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Myrtle Beach does not exist. Nearly everything in Myrtle Beach is a paltry derivative of some original form. For instance, most of the country has golf courses, in Myrtle Beach there are endless rows of putt-putt courses, where most towns attempt to draw in big name musical acts for their tourist venues, Myrtle Beach is content with impersonators. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2007/06/sailing-through" title="Sailing Through"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/charlestonships.jpg" alt="Sailing Through" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2007/06/sailing-through" class="u-url" title="Sailing Through">Sailing Through</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2007-06-15T00:15:43">June <span>15, 2007</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Charleston</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">South Carolina</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="32.835570335240995"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-79.82256172976372"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The rumors are true. I moved back to the south; Athens GA to be exact. But I hate staying in one place for too long, so after a month or two in Athens I headed up to Charleston to visit a friend. The south is curious place. If you've never been here I couldn't hope to explain it, but it's not so much a place as an approach. A way of getting somewhere more than anywhere specific. Perhaps even a wrong turn.
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itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Los Angeles</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">California</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="34.040907225218874"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-118.47207783003557"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + It's strange how you can plan something, go through all the motions of making it happen without ever really understanding what you're doing. I've been doing this for the better part of three years now. I realized recently that I have no real idea how I came to be here.
+ + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2007/02/everything-all-time" title="Everything All The Time"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/end.jpg" alt="Everything All The Time" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2007/02/everything-all-time" class="u-url" title="Everything All The Time">Everything All The Time</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2007-02-03T11:14:13">February <span>3, 2007</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Los Angeles</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">California</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.97530686407635"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-118.42890499373785"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + I don't know if I'm just overly paranoid but when I call up memories in the dark hours of the Beaujolais-soaked pre-dawn, I see a collection of mildly amusing, occasionally painful series of embarrassments, misunderstandings and general wrong-place, wrong-time sort of moments. Which isn't to imply that my life is a British sitcom, just that I'm not in a hurry to re-live any of it. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2007/01/sun-came-no-conclusions" title="The Sun Came Up With No Conclusions"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/illuminatus.jpg" alt="The Sun Came Up With No Conclusions" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2007/01/sun-came-no-conclusions" class="u-url" title="The Sun Came Up With No Conclusions">The Sun Came Up With No Conclusions</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2007-01-11T18:11:30">January <span>11, 2007</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Los Angeles</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">California</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.97517340607632"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-118.42887280722941"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + "And so it is that we, as men, do not exist until we do; and then it is that we play with our world of existent things, and order and disorder them, and so it shall be that non-existence shall take us back from existence and that nameless spirituality shall return to Void, like a tired child home from a very wild circus." -- Robert Anton Wilson and Kerry Thornley. Good luck and Godspeed Mr. Wilson. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/12/give-it-or-turnit-loose" title="Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/jamesbrown.jpg" alt="Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/12/give-it-or-turnit-loose" class="u-url" title="Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose">Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-12-25T19:10:49">December <span>25, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Los Angeles</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">California</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.97519564909091"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-118.42893718024602"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Traveling soul. Soul is not something out there or in you, it's the place where you meet the out there; something very similar to what I think James Brown meant — a mixture of the secular and the spiritual, the profane and the sublime. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/06/homeward" title="Homeward"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/trappedmoth.jpg" alt="Homeward" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/06/homeward" class="u-url" title="Homeward">Homeward</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-06-09T11:05:34">June <span>9, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Los Angeles</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">California</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.975160060264834"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-118.42903373977045"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + New York, New York. John F Kennedy airport 1 am date unknown, sleepy looking customs guard stamps a passport without hardly looking at, without even checking to see where I had been. A light drizzle is falling outside and the subways extension to the terminal never looked so good. What is it like to be home? I don't know, I'll tell you when I get there. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/06/cadenza" title="Cadenza"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/parisglow.jpg" alt="Cadenza" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/06/cadenza" class="u-url" title="Cadenza">Cadenza</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-06-06T11:01:26">June <span>6, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Paris</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/france/" title="travel writing from France">France</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="48.86345844378468"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="2.3610842224649087"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Paris - Outside it's raining. Beads of water form on the window in front of me. The glow of the unseen sun is fading behind midnight blue clouds and darkening sky. An old man in a butcher apron selling oysters under an awning smokes a cigarette and watches the mothers and children walking home with bags of groceries. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/05/i-dont-sleep-i-dream" title="I Don't Sleep I Dream"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/freudsoffice.jpg" alt="I Don't Sleep I Dream" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/05/i-dont-sleep-i-dream" class="u-url" title="I Don't Sleep I Dream">I Don’t Sleep I Dream</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-05-28T15:00:32">May <span>28, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Vienna</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/austria/" title="travel writing from Austria">Austria</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="48.209967769727996"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="16.370648143396814"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + How can Freud's former residence in Vienna lack a couch? The closest thing is up against the wall, behind a small writing desk in what was then the waiting room — a small divan where one might stare at the patternless ceiling until the patterns emerge as it were. “Tell me about it,” he began. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/05/unreflected" title="Unreflected"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/selfportraitconvex.jpg" alt="Unreflected" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/05/unreflected" class="u-url" title="Unreflected">Unreflected</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-05-27T23:55:46">May <span>27, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Vienna</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/austria/" title="travel writing from Austria">Austria</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="48.209967769727996"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="16.370648143396814"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The Kunsthistorisches Museum contains probably the best collection of art outside of France — Rubens, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Raphael, Velazquez, Bruegel and a certain Italian for whom I have a festering personal obsession, which shall be addressed shortly — and what's remarkable about this magnificent assemblage is that the vast majority of it was once the Hapsburg's private collection. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/05/four-minutes-thirty-three-seconds" title="Four Minutes Thirty-Three Seconds"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/wallofnames.jpg" alt="Four Minutes Thirty-Three Seconds" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/05/four-minutes-thirty-three-seconds" class="u-url" title="Four Minutes Thirty-Three Seconds">Four Minutes Thirty-Three Seconds</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-05-26T14:50:24">May <span>26, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Prague</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/czech-republic/" title="travel writing from Czech Republic">Czech Republic</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="50.089846390847725"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="14.418117998023494"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Just north of Prague's old town square and east of the River Vltava is Josefov, the old Jewish quarter of Prague. The Pinkas Synagogue in Josefov is an unassuming pale, sand-colored building with a slightly sunken entrance. Inside is a small alter and little else. The floor is bare; there are no places for worshipers to sit. The synagogue is little more than walls. And on the walls inscribed in extremely small print are the names of the 77,297 Jewish citizens of Bohemia and Moravia who died in the Holocaust.
+ + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/05/inside-and-out" title="Inside and Out"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/krumlovcastleatnight.jpg" alt="Inside and Out" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/05/inside-and-out" class="u-url" title="Inside and Out">Inside and Out</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-05-25T17:45:12">May <span>25, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Cesky Krumlov</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/czech-republic/" title="travel writing from Czech Republic">Czech Republic</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="48.81053057801549"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="14.317352769766009"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Chasing Egon Schiele: The attention to detail that makes the difference between a building and work of art was everywhere in Cesky Krumlov, from the delicate pink and red complements of a fine dovetailed corner, to the white plaster and oak beams of the Egon Schiele museum, which, despite geometric differences, looked not unlike the Globe Theatre in London. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/05/king-carrot-flowers-part-two" title="The King of Carrot Flowers Part Two"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/sloveniachurch.jpg" alt="The King of Carrot Flowers Part Two" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/05/king-carrot-flowers-part-two" class="u-url" title="The King of Carrot Flowers Part Two">The King of Carrot Flowers Part Two</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-05-22T20:44:33">May <span>22, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Bled</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/slovenia/" title="travel writing from Slovenia">Slovenia</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="46.365209982615575"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="14.109942911091283"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + There is a roughly 200km loop of road that leads northwest out of Bled, through a pass in the Julian Alps and then down the other side, twisting and winding back toward Bled by way of craggy canyons, small hamlets and crystalline rivers. We set out sometime after breakfast. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/05/ghost" title="Ghost"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/trogirnight.jpg" alt="Ghost" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/05/ghost" class="u-url" title="Ghost">Ghost</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-05-19T19:37:07">May <span>19, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Ljubljana</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/slovenia/" title="travel writing from Slovenia">Slovenia</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="46.05085985632457"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="14.50674891269926"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Like Dubrovnik, Trogir is a walled city of roughly Venetian vintage, but Trogir's wall has largely crumbled away or been removed. Still, it has the gorgeous narrow cobblestone streets, arched doorways and towering forts that give all Dalmatian towns their Rapunzel-like fairly tale quality. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/05/feel-good-lost" title="Feel Good Lost"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/dubrovnik.jpg" alt="Feel Good Lost" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/05/feel-good-lost" class="u-url" title="Feel Good Lost">Feel Good Lost</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-05-18T00:38:37">May <span>18, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Dubrovnik</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/croatia/" title="travel writing from Croatia">Croatia</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="42.64133838429178"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="18.10905217872305"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Dubrovnik, Croatia was heavily shelled during the Bosnian conflict and roughly 65 percent of its buildings were hit, built for the most part you'd never know it. Most of the buildings date from about 1468, though some were destroyed in the great earthquake of 1667, still, by and large, the city looks as it did in the fifteenth century. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/05/blue-milk" title="Blue Milk"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/plitvice.jpg" alt="Blue Milk" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/05/blue-milk" class="u-url" title="Blue Milk">Blue Milk</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-05-16T00:32:27">May <span>16, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Dubrovnik</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/croatia/" title="travel writing from Croatia">Croatia</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="42.64133838429178"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="18.10905217872305"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + It's hard to understand, standing on the banks of such crystalline, cerulean lakes, whose dazzling colors come from the mineral rich silt runoff of glaciers, that the largest European conflict since world war two began here, at Like Plitvice Croatia. But indeed this is where the first shots were fired on Easter Sunday in 1991 and the first casualty was a park policeman. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/05/refracted-light-and-grace" title="Refracted Light and Grace"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/castlehillbuda.jpg" alt="Refracted Light and Grace" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/05/refracted-light-and-grace" class="u-url" title="Refracted Light and Grace">Refracted Light and Grace</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-05-11T00:26:59">May <span>11, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Budapest</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/hungary/" title="travel writing from Hungary">Hungary</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="47.483800862289485"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="19.062137601106286"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Evening, after dinner, outside on the balcony, smoking cigarettes and contemplating the nightscape of Buda's Castle Hill rising up out of its own golden reflection in the shimmering Danube waters. The drone of car horns in the distance and the electric tram squealing as it pulls out of the station below on the river a boat slowly churns upstream... + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/05/london-calling" title="London Calling"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/londonthames.jpg" alt="London Calling" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/05/london-calling" class="u-url" title="London Calling">London Calling</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-05-10T00:16:42">May <span>10, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">London</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/united-kingdom/" title="travel writing from United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="51.55119204682159"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-0.1495599746495864"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + London: The British don't want me -- no money, no proof I'm leaving and no real reason for coming, good lord, I must be a vagabond, up to no good, surely. Eventually the customs agent relents and lets me in, a favor I repay by nearly burning down one of London's bigger parks. Seriously. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/05/closing-time" title="Closing Time"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/thailandtrain.jpg" alt="Closing Time" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/05/closing-time" class="u-url" title="Closing Time">Closing Time</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-05-01T00:14:23">May <span>1, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Koh Kradan</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/thailand/" title="travel writing from Thailand">Thailand</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="7.0586452366957175"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="98.53981016694692"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Headed back to Europe: I started to write a bit of reminiscence, trying to remember the highlights of my time in Asia before I return to the west, but about halfway through I kept thinking of a popular Buddhist saying — be here now. Most of these dispatches are written in past tense, but this time I want to simply be here now. This moment, on this train. This is the last time I'll post something from Southeast Asia. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/04/beginning-end" title="Beginning of the End"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/kokradan.jpg" alt="Beginning of the End" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/04/beginning-end" class="u-url" title="Beginning of the End">Beginning of the End</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-04-22T00:11:20">April <span>22, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Koh Kradan</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/thailand/" title="travel writing from Thailand">Thailand</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="7.4090692758064645"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="99.207916245987"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + I wasn't expecting much from Ko Kradan, but in the end I discovered a slice of Thailand the way it's often describe by wistful hippies who first came here twenty years ago. Tong and Ngu and the rest of the Thais working at Paradise Lost were the nicest people I met in Thailand and Wally was by far the most laid back farang I've come across. I ended up staying on Ko Kradan for the remainder of my time in the south.
+ + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/04/going-down-south" title="Going Down South"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/kophiphi.jpg" alt="Going Down South" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/04/going-down-south" class="u-url" title="Going Down South">Going Down South</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-04-11T00:10:50">April <span>11, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Koh Phi Phi</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/thailand/" title="travel writing from Thailand">Thailand</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="7.735826857017756"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="98.77876280363327"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The Phi Phi Island Resort, where some friends were staying, is nestled on the leeward shore of Koh Phi Phi Island and posts a private beach, beautiful reef, fancy swimming pools and rooms with real sheets. Unheard of. I sauntered in a day early, acted like I owned the place, rented snorkel gear, charged it to a random room number and spent the afternoon on the reef. If only I could have put it on the Underhill's credit card. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/03/book-right" title="The Book of Right On"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/goodbyes.jpg" alt="The Book of Right On" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/03/book-right" class="u-url" title="The Book of Right On">The Book of Right On</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-03-31T00:01:02">March <span>31, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Sinoukville</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/cambodia/" title="travel writing from Cambodia">Cambodia</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="10.626275865572227"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="103.49945066918632"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The next day we continued on to Sinoukville which is Cambodia's attempt at a seaside resort. Combining the essential elements of Goa and Thailand, Sinoukville is a pleasant, if somewhat hippy-oriented, travelers haven. We rented Honda Dreams and cruised down the coast to deserted white sand beaches, thatched huts serving noodles and rice, where we watched sunsets and dodged rain storms. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/03/midnight-perfect-world" title="Midnight in a Perfect World"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/deathisland.jpg" alt="Midnight in a Perfect World" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/03/midnight-perfect-world" class="u-url" title="Midnight in a Perfect World">Midnight in a Perfect World</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-03-26T23:58:12">March <span>26, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Death Island</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/cambodia/" title="travel writing from Cambodia">Cambodia</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="10.438267017137903"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="104.32325361706974"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Death Island, as Rob nicknamed it, was just what I needed. The first day we sat down for lunch and ordered crab; a boy in his underwear proceeded to run out of the kitchen, swam out in the ocean and began unloading crabs from a trap into a bucket. It doesn't get much fresher than that. Throw in a nice beach, some cheap bungalows and you're away. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/03/angkor-wat" title="Angkor Wat"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/angkorwat.jpg" alt="Angkor Wat" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/03/angkor-wat" class="u-url" title="Angkor Wat">Angkor Wat</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-03-21T23:55:50">March <span>21, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Angkor Wat</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/cambodia/" title="travel writing from Cambodia">Cambodia</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="13.497808126788645"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="103.89289854510803"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Roughly half a million people a year visit Angkor Wat. The first evening we decided to see just how tourist-filled Angkor was by heading to the most popular sunset temple, Phnom Bakheng, to watch the sunset. And there were a lot of tourists. Thousands of them. And that was just at one temple. Thus was hatched the plan: see Angkor in the heat of the day. Yes it will be hot. Hot hot hot. Fucking hot. But hopefully empty. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/03/wait-til-it-blows" title="...Wait 'til it Blows"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/landmines.jpg" alt="...Wait 'til it Blows" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/03/wait-til-it-blows" class="u-url" title="...Wait 'til it Blows">…Wait ‘til it Blows</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-03-18T23:52:55">March <span>18, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Seam Reap</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/cambodia/" title="travel writing from Cambodia">Cambodia</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="13.361228724078332"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="103.86148451313011"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + One the things I may have failed to mention thus far in my Cambodia reportage is that this was/is one of the most heavily mined areas in the world. You might think that removing landmines involves sophisticated technology of the sort you see in BBC documentaries on Bosnia, but here in Cambodia landmine removal is most often handled by the technological marvel of southeast Asia — the bamboo stick. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/03/beginning-see-light" title="Beginning to See the Light"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/floatingvillage.jpg" alt="Beginning to See the Light" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/03/beginning-see-light" class="u-url" title="Beginning to See the Light">Beginning to See the Light</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-03-16T20:45:20">March <span>16, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Floating Village</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/cambodia/" title="travel writing from Cambodia">Cambodia</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="12.821174848475923"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="104.04052732926735"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Surprisingly, a floating village is not that different than a village on the land. There are the same stores, the computer repair shop, the grocers, the petrol station, the temple, the dance hall and all the other things that makeup a town. 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class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Phenom Phen</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/cambodia/" title="travel writing from Cambodia">Cambodia</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="11.56597559052094"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="104.92750166386062"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + As I mentioned in the last entry I came down with a bit of a fever for a few days. This was accompanied by what we in the group have come to term, for lack of a nicer, but equally descriptive phrase — pissing out the ass. It's not a pretty picture. Nor is it a pleasant experience, and consequently I don't have a real clear recollection of the journey from Ban Lung to Kratie or from Kratie out to Sen Monoron. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/03/ticket-ride" title="Ticket To Ride"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/hondadream.jpg" alt="Ticket To Ride" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/03/ticket-ride" class="u-url" title="Ticket To Ride">Ticket To Ride</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-03-07T23:39:02">March <span>7, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Ban Lung</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/cambodia/" title="travel writing from Cambodia">Cambodia</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="13.734549299840165"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="106.97941301763984"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + I can't see. My eyebrows are orange with dust. I cannot see them, but I know they must be; they were yesterday. Every now and then when her legs clench down on my hips or her fingernails dig into my shoulders, I remember Debi is behind me and I am more or less responsible for not killing both of us. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/02/little-corner-world" title="Little Corner of the World"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/siphondon.jpg" alt="Little Corner of the World" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/02/little-corner-world" class="u-url" title="Little Corner of the World">Little Corner of the World</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-02-28T20:13:00">February <span>28, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Four Thousand Islands</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/laos/" title="travel writing from Lao (PDR)">Lao (PDR)</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="14.130915842740961"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="105.83782194571636"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + It's difficult to explain but the further south you go in Laos the more relaxed life becomes. Since life in the north is not exactly high stress, by the time we arrived in the four thousand Islands we had to check our pulse periodically to ensure that time was in fact still moving forward. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/02/cant-get-there-here" title="Can&#8217;t Get There From Here"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/attapeulight.jpg" alt="Can&#8217;t Get There From Here" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/02/cant-get-there-here" class="u-url" title="Can&#8217;t Get There From Here">Can’t Get There From Here</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-02-24T20:00:03">February <span>24, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Attapeu</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/laos/" title="travel writing from Lao (PDR)">Lao (PDR)</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="14.806085524831946"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="106.83689115944449"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The most magical light in Laos lives on the Bolevan Plateau. For some reason not many tourists seem to make it out to the Bolevan Plateau, in spite of the fact that the roads are quite good, transport runs regularly, the villages peaceful, even sleepy, little hamlets. In short, the Bolevan Plateau is wonderful, and not the least in part because no one else is there. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/02/safe-milk" title="Safe as Milk"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/usbombs.jpg" alt="Safe as Milk" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/02/safe-milk" class="u-url" title="Safe as Milk">Safe as Milk</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-02-18T19:54:24">February <span>18, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Sekong</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/laos/" title="travel writing from Lao (PDR)">Lao (PDR)</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="14.623949505069236"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="106.5756225437582"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + You would think, if you were the United States and you were illegally and unofficially bombing a foreign country you might not want to stamp "US Bomb" on the side of your bombs, and yet there it was all over Laos: "US Bomb." Clearly somebody didn't think things all the way through, especially given that roughly one third of said bombs failed to explode. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/02/everyday-fourteenth" title="Everyday the Fourteenth"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/hinbunriver.jpg" alt="Everyday the Fourteenth" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/02/everyday-fourteenth" class="u-url" title="Everyday the Fourteenth">Everyday the Fourteenth</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-02-14T19:50:35">February <span>14, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Savannakhet</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/laos/" title="travel writing from Lao (PDR)">Lao (PDR)</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="16.560435757136183"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="104.75026129218114"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + We piled four large bags, four daypacks and five people in a six meter dugout canoe. The boat was powered by the ever-present-in-southeast-Asia long tail motor which is essential a lawnmower engine with a three meter pole extending out of it to which a small propeller is attached — perfect for navigating shallow water. And by shallow I mean sometimes a mere inch between the hull and the riverbed. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/02/water-slides-and-spirit-guides" title="Water Slides and Spirit Guides"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/konglorcave.jpg" alt="Water Slides and Spirit Guides" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/02/water-slides-and-spirit-guides" class="u-url" title="Water Slides and Spirit Guides">Water Slides and Spirit Guides</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-02-10T19:47:12">February <span>10, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Konglor Cave</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/laos/" title="travel writing from Lao (PDR)">Lao (PDR)</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="18.06285035750356"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="104.49783323740189"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The dramatic black karst limestone mountains ringing Ban Na Hin grew darker as the light faded. I was sitting alone on the back porch of our guesthouse watching the light slowly disappear from the bottoms of the clouds and wondering absently how many pages it would take to explain how I came to be in the tiny town of Ban Na Hin, or if such an explanation even really existed. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/02/lovely-universe" title="The Lovely Universe"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/vangveing.jpg" alt="The Lovely Universe" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/02/lovely-universe" class="u-url" title="The Lovely Universe">The Lovely Universe</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-02-04T23:43:28">February <span>4, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Vang Vieng</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/laos/" title="travel writing from Lao (PDR)">Lao (PDR)</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="18.92544862065573"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="102.43755339150223"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + I would like to say that I have something memorable to write about Vang Vieng, but the truth is we mostly sat around doing very little, making new friends, drinking a beer around the fire and waiting out the Chinese new year celebrations, which meant none of us could get Cambodian visas until the following Monday. We were forced to relax beside the river for several more days than we intended. Yes friends, traveling is hard, but I do it for you. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/01/i-used-fly-peter-pan" title="I Used to Fly Like Peter Pan"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/gibbonexperience.jpg" alt="I Used to Fly Like Peter Pan" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/01/i-used-fly-peter-pan" class="u-url" title="I Used to Fly Like Peter Pan">I Used to Fly Like Peter Pan</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-01-21T19:42:47">January <span>21, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Luang Nam Tha</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/laos/" title="travel writing from Lao (PDR)">Lao (PDR)</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="20.853678554651314"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="101.19094847224211"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The next time someone asks you, “would you like to live in a tree house and travel five hundred feet above the ground attached to a zip wire?” I highly suggest you say, “yes, where do a I sign up?” If you happen to be in Laos, try the Gibbon Experience. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/01/hymn-big-wheel" title="Hymn of the Big Wheel"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/bluemilkwaterfall.jpg" alt="Hymn of the Big Wheel" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/01/hymn-big-wheel" class="u-url" title="Hymn of the Big Wheel">Hymn of the Big Wheel</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-01-19T19:37:46">January <span>19, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Luang Prabang</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/laos/" title="travel writing from Lao (PDR)">Lao (PDR)</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="19.827433510057354"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="102.42279051308633"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Jose Saramago writes in <cite>The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis</cite> that the gods "journey like us in the river of things, differing from us only because we call them gods and sometimes believe in them." Sitting in the middle of the river listening to the gurgle of water moving over stone and around trees I began to think that perhaps this is the sound of some lost language, a sound capable of creating mountains, valleys, estuaries, isthmuses and all the other forms around us, gurgling and sonorous but without clear meaning, shrouded in turquoise, a mystery through which we can move our sense of wonder intact. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/01/down-river" title="Down the River"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/mekongslowboat.jpg" alt="Down the River" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/01/down-river" class="u-url" title="Down the River">Down the River</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-01-17T20:13:26">January <span>17, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Luang Prabang</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/laos/" title="travel writing from Lao (PDR)">Lao (PDR)</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="19.875064447947235"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="102.13199614056808"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Morning in Chiang Khong Thailand revealed itself as a foggy, and not a little mysterious, affair with the far shore of the Mekong, the Laos shore, almost completely hidden in a veil of mist. The first ferry crossed at eight and I was on it, looking to meet up with the slow boat to Luang Prabang. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/01/king-carrot-flowers" title="The King of Carrot Flowers"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/doiinthanonnp.jpg" alt="The King of Carrot Flowers" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/01/king-carrot-flowers" class="u-url" title="The King of Carrot Flowers">The King of Carrot Flowers</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-01-17T18:53:17">January <span>17, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Doi Inthanan National Park</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/thailand/" title="travel writing from Thailand">Thailand</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="19.315031381446268"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="98.84262083585028"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The light outside the windows was still a pre-dawn inky blue when the freezing cold water hit my back. A cold shower at six thirty in the morning is infinitely more powerful, albeit not at long lasting, as a cup of coffee. After dropping my body temperature a few degrees and having no towel to dry off with, just a dirty shirt and ceaseless ceiling fan, a cup of tea seemed like a good idea so I stopped in at the restaurant downstairs and, after a cup of hot water with some Jasmine leaves swirling at the bottom of it, I climbed on my rental motorbike and set out for Doi Inthanan National Park. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/01/you-and-i-are-disappearing" title="You and I Are Disappearing"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/changmaiumong.jpg" alt="You and I Are Disappearing" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/01/you-and-i-are-disappearing" class="u-url" title="You and I Are Disappearing">You and I Are Disappearing</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-01-12T00:52:30">January <span>12, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Chang Mai</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/thailand/" title="travel writing from Thailand">Thailand</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="18.787042343613653"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="98.9876746993555"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The all night bus reached Chiang Mai well past dawn, the city already beginning to stir. I considered trying to nap, but in the end decided to explore the town. What better way to see Buddhist temples than in the dreamy fog of sleeplessness? Chiang Mai has over three hundred wats within the somewhat sprawling city limits, most of them reasonably modern and, in my opinion, not worth visiting. I narrowed the field to three, which I figured was a nice round one percent.
+ + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/01/buddha-bounty" title="Buddha on the Bounty"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/jimthompsonhouse.jpg" alt="Buddha on the Bounty" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/01/buddha-bounty" class="u-url" title="Buddha on the Bounty">Buddha on the Bounty</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-01-05T18:43:03">January <span>5, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Bangkok</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/thailand/" title="travel writing from Thailand">Thailand</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="13.726128126466529"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="100.547304139446"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The house Jim Thompson left behind in Bangkok is gorgeous, but the real charm is the garden and its orchids. I wandered around the gardens which really aren't that large for some time and then found a bench near a collection of orchids, where I sat for the better part of an hour, occasionally taking a photograph or two, but mostly thinking about how human orchids are. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/01/brink-clouds" title="Brink of the Clouds"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/bangkokfrombaiyoke.jpg" alt="Brink of the Clouds" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/01/brink-clouds" class="u-url" title="Brink of the Clouds">Brink of the Clouds</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-01-03T20:38:27">January <span>3, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Bangkok</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/thailand/" title="travel writing from Thailand">Thailand</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="13.750921779579318"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="100.54314135105552"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + "The city is a cathedral" writes James Salter, "its scent is dreams." Salter may have been referring to New York, but his words ring true in Bangkok. And the best place to feel it at night is on the river or from the top of the Baiyoke Sky Hotel — where a circular, revolving observation deck offers 360° views of the Bangkok nightscape. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/01/are-you-amplified-rock" title="Are You Amplified to Rock?"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/bangkokriver.jpg" alt="Are You Amplified to Rock?" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/01/are-you-amplified-rock" class="u-url" title="Are You Amplified to Rock?">Are You Amplified to Rock?</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-01-01T18:37:48">January <span>1, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Bangkok</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/thailand/" title="travel writing from Thailand">Thailand</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="13.761790973148347"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="100.4934453824343"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + It's a new year, are you amplified to rock? Ready, set, go. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/12/merry-christmas-2005" title="Merry Christmas 2005"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/bangkokfort.jpg" alt="Merry Christmas 2005" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/12/merry-christmas-2005" class="u-url" title="Merry Christmas 2005">Merry Christmas 2005</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-12-25T18:27:48">December <span>25, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Bangkok</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/thailand/" title="travel writing from Thailand">Thailand</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="13.761790973148347"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="100.49344538243446"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Seasons Greeting from luxagraf. I'm in Bangkok, Thailand at the moment. I am taking a short break from traveling to do a little working so I don't have much to report. I've seen the two big temples down in the Khaosan Rd area, but otherwise I've been trying to live an ordinary life in Bangkok, if such a thing is possible. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/12/sunset-over-himalayas" title="Sunset Over the Himalayas"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/pokharaboat.jpg" alt="Sunset Over the Himalayas" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/12/sunset-over-himalayas" class="u-url" title="Sunset Over the Himalayas">Sunset Over the Himalayas</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-12-17T21:03:43">December <span>17, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Pokhara</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/nepal/" title="travel writing from Nepal">Nepal</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="28.210482777870325"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="83.95820616507119"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + After about forty-five minutes of paddling I reached a point where the views of the Annapurna range were, in the words of an Englishman I met in Katmandu, "gob smacking gorgeous." I put down the paddle and moved to the center of the boat where the benches were wider and, using my bag a cushion, lay back against the gunwale and hung my feet over the opposite side so that they just skimmed the surface of the chilly water. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/12/pashupatinath" title="Pashupatinath"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/nepalburninggahts.jpg" alt="Pashupatinath" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/12/pashupatinath" class="u-url" title="Pashupatinath">Pashupatinath</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-12-15T18:02:59">December <span>15, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Pashupatinath</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/nepal/" title="travel writing from Nepal">Nepal</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="27.71057315568692"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="85.34853457216452"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Nestled on a hillside beside the Bagmati River, Pashupatinath is one of the holiest sites in the world for Hindus, second only to Varanasi in India. Pashupatinath consists of a large temple which is open only to Hindus, surrounded by a number of smaller shrines and then down on the banks of the Bagmati are the burning ghats where bodies are cremated. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/12/durbar-square-kathmandu" title="Durbar Square Kathmandu"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/durbarsquare.jpg" alt="Durbar Square Kathmandu" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/12/durbar-square-kathmandu" class="u-url" title="Durbar Square Kathmandu">Durbar Square Kathmandu</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-12-15T17:57:48">December <span>15, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Kathmandu</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/nepal/" title="travel writing from Nepal">Nepal</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="27.703363690641837"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="85.31737803225191"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + After saturating myself with the streets of Thamel I went on a longer excursion down to Durbar Square to see the various pagodas, temples and the old palace. The palace itself no longer houses the King, but is still used for coronations and ceremonies and Durbar Square is still very much the hub of Katmandu. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/12/goodbye-india" title="Goodbye India"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/indiadelhi.jpg" alt="Goodbye India" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/12/goodbye-india" class="u-url" title="Goodbye India">Goodbye India</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-12-10T17:53:25">December <span>10, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Delhi</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/india/" title="travel writing from India">India</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="28.6418241967323"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="77.21092699883451"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + I have taken almost 750 photos and traveled nearly 4000 km (2500 miles) in India, the vast majority of it by train. I have seen everything from depressing squalor to majestic palaces and yet I still feel as if I have hardly scratched the surface. I can't think of another and certainly have never been to a country with the kind of geographic and ethnic diversity of India. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/12/taj-express" title="The Taj Express"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/tajmahal.jpg" alt="The Taj Express" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/12/taj-express" class="u-url" title="The Taj Express">The Taj Express</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-12-09T17:49:40">December <span>9, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Agra</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/india/" title="travel writing from India">India</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="27.17280401257652"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="78.04176806317186"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The Taj Mahal is one of the Seven Wonders of the World, and, given the level of hype I was fully prepared to be underwhelmed, but I was wrong. I have never in my life seen anything so extravagant, elegant and colossal. The Taj Mahal seems mythically, spiritually, as well as architecturally, to have risen from nowhere, without equal or context. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/12/camel-no-name" title="On a Camel With No Name"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/cameltrek.jpg" alt="On a Camel With No Name" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/12/camel-no-name" class="u-url" title="On a Camel With No Name">On a Camel With No Name</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-12-05T22:46:54">December <span>5, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Thar Desert</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/india/" title="travel writing from India">India</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="27.004078760567136"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="70.89065550770995"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The Thar Desert is a bewitching if stark place. It reminded me of areas of the Great Basin between Las Vegas and St. George, Utah. Twigging mesquite-like trees, bluish gray bushes resembling creosote, a very large bush that resembled a Palo Verde tree and grew in impenetrable clumps, and, strangely, only one species of cactus and not a whole lot of them. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/12/majestic-fort" title="The Majestic Fort"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/jodhpurfort.jpg" alt="The Majestic Fort" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/12/majestic-fort" class="u-url" title="The Majestic Fort">The Majestic Fort</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-12-02T17:40:02">December <span>2, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Jodhpur</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/india/" title="travel writing from India">India</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="26.29741635354351"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="73.01766871389577"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The next day I hopped in a rickshaw and headed up to tour Meherangarh, or the Majestic Fort as it's known in English. As its English name indicates, it is indeed perched majestically atop the only hill around, and seems not so much built on a hill as to have naturally risen out the very rocks that form the mesa on which it rests. 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h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Udiapur</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/india/" title="travel writing from India">India</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="24.667610368715458"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="73.78486632273662"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Just out of Udaipur is a government sponsored "artist colony" for various cultures from the five nearby states, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Karnataka, Goa and Madhya Pradesh. On one hand Shilpogram is a wonderful idea on the part of the government, but on the other hand the "artists colony" is slightly creepy. Amidst displays of typical tribal life there were artists and craftsmen and women hawking their wares along with dancers and musicians performing traditional songs. The whole thing had the feel of a living museum, or, for the creepy angle — human zoo. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/11/monsoon-palace" title="The Monsoon Palace"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/monsoonpalace.jpg" alt="The Monsoon Palace" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/11/monsoon-palace" class="u-url" title="The Monsoon Palace">The Monsoon Palace</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-11-29T12:03:31">November <span>29, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Udiapur</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/india/" title="travel writing from India">India</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="24.66199437588058"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="73.68804930614868"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + We started out in the early evening quickly leaving behind Udaipur and its increasing urban sprawl. The road to the Monsoon Palace passes through the Sajjan Garh Nature Preserve and there was a sudden and dramatic drop in temperature, but then the road climbed out of the hollow and the temperature jumped back up to comfortable as we began to climb the mountain in a series of hairpin switchbacks. As the sun slowly slunk behind the mountain range to the west the balconies and balustrades of the Monsoon Palace took on an increasingly orange hue. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/11/city-palace" title="The City Palace"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/citypalaceudaipur.jpg" alt="The City Palace" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/11/city-palace" class="u-url" title="The City Palace">The City Palace</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-11-28T22:00:46">November <span>28, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Udiapur</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/india/" title="travel writing from India">India</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="24.591304879190837"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="73.69319914745653"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + I spent some time sitting in the inner gardens of the City Place, listening to rustling trees and the various guides bringing small groups of western and Indian tourists through the garden. In the center of the hanging gardens was the kings, extremely oversized bath, which reminded me of children's book that I once gave to a friend's daughter; it was a massively oversized and lavishly illustrated book that told the story of a king who refused to get out of the bath and instead made his ministers, advisors, cooks and even his wife conduct business by getting in the bath with him. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/11/living-airport-terminals" title="Living in Airport Terminals"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/ceilingfanindia.jpg" alt="Living in Airport Terminals" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/11/living-airport-terminals" class="u-url" title="Living in Airport Terminals">Living in Airport Terminals</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-11-27T11:56:20">November <span>27, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Ahmedabad</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/india/" title="travel writing from India">India</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="23.009675285624738"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="72.56237982693523"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Airport terminals are fast becoming my favorite part of traveling. When you stop and observe them closely as I have been forced to do on this trip, terminals are actually quite beautiful, weird places. Terminals inhabit a unique space in the architecture of humanity, perhaps the strangest of all spaces we have created; a space that is itself only a boundary that delineates the border between what was and what will be without leaving any space at all for what is. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/11/anjuna-market" title="Anjuna Market"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/anjunabeachmarket.jpg" alt="Anjuna Market" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/11/anjuna-market" class="u-url" title="Anjuna Market">Anjuna Market</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-11-24T00:58:15">November <span>24, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Anjuna Beach</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/india/" title="travel writing from India">India</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="15.58128947293701"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="73.73886107371965"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Earlier today I caught a bus up to the Anjuna Flea Market and can now tell you for certain that old hippies do not die, they simply move to Goa. The flea market was quite a spectacle; riots of color at every turn and more silver jewelry than you could shake a stick at. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/11/fish-story" title="Fish Story"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/colvabeach.jpg" alt="Fish Story" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/11/fish-story" class="u-url" title="Fish Story">Fish Story</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-11-20T00:54:46">November <span>20, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Colva Beach</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/india/" title="travel writing from India">India</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="15.277230227117771"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="73.91541479989145"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The Arabian Sea is warm and the sand sucks at your feet when you walk, schools of tiny fish dart and disappear into each receding wave. In the morning the water is nearly glassy and the beach slopes off so slowly one can walk out at least 200 meters and be only waist deep. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/11/backwaters-kerala" title="The Backwaters of Kerala"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/keralabackwater.jpg" alt="The Backwaters of Kerala" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/11/backwaters-kerala" class="u-url" title="The Backwaters of Kerala">The Backwaters of Kerala</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-11-15T00:53:50">November <span>15, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Fort Kochi</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/india/" title="travel writing from India">India</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="9.958029970964114"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="76.2533569229791"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The guide showed us Tamarind trees, coconut palms, lemon trees, vanilla vine, plantain trees and countless other shrubs and bushes whose names I have already forgotten. The most fascinating was a plant that produces a fruit something like a miniature mango that contains cyanide and which, as our guide informed us, is cultivated mainly to commit suicide with — as if it was no big deal and everyone is at least occasionally tempted to each the killer mango. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/11/vasco-de-gama-exhumed" title="Vasco de Gama Exhumed"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/fortcochin.jpg" alt="Vasco de Gama Exhumed" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/11/vasco-de-gama-exhumed" class="u-url" title="Vasco de Gama Exhumed">Vasco de Gama Exhumed</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-11-11T00:51:41">November <span>11, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Fort Kochi</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/india/" title="travel writing from India">India</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="9.964370231041409"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="76.24091147315164"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Fort Cochin is curious collision of cultures — Chinese, India and even Portuguese. Many of the obviously older buildings are of a distinctly Iberian-style — moss covered, adobe-colored arches abound. There is graveyard just down the road with a tombstone that bears the name Vasco de Gama, who died and was buried here for fourteen years before being moved to Lisbon (there we go again, more Europeans digging up and moving the dead). + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/11/riots-iraqi-restaurants-goodbye-seine" title="Riots, Iraqi Restaurants, Goodbye Seine"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/seinetower.jpg" alt="Riots, Iraqi Restaurants, Goodbye Seine" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/11/riots-iraqi-restaurants-goodbye-seine" class="u-url" title="Riots, Iraqi Restaurants, Goodbye Seine">Riots, Iraqi Restaurants, Goodbye Seine</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-11-08T18:30:13">November <span>8, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Paris</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/france/" title="travel writing from France">France</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="48.863514907961644"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="2.3610734936288558"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Well it's my last night here in Paris and I've chosen to return to the best restaurant we've been to so far, an Iraqi restaurant in a Marais. I am using all my willpower right now to avoid having a political outburst re the quality of Iraqi food versus the intelligence of George Bush etc etc. I'm traveling; I don't want to get into politics except to say that my dislike for the current El Presidente was no small factor in my decision to go abroad. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/11/bury-your-dead" title="Bury Your Dead"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/pariscatacombs.jpg" alt="Bury Your Dead" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/11/bury-your-dead" class="u-url" title="Bury Your Dead">Bury Your Dead</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-11-06T18:28:52">November <span>6, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Paris</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/france/" title="travel writing from France">France</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="48.88623656623962"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="2.343757152231122"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + I would like to say that the catacombs of Paris had some spectacular effect on me seeing that I strolled through human remains, skulls and femurs mainly, "decoratively arranged," but the truth is, after you get over the initial shock of seeing a skull, well, it turns out you can get adjusted to just about anything. Maybe that in and off itself is the scary part. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/11/houses-we-live" title="The Houses We Live In"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/pariscityscape.jpg" alt="The Houses We Live In" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/11/houses-we-live" class="u-url" title="The Houses We Live In">The Houses We Live In</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-11-01T10:40:00">November <span>1, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Paris</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/france/" title="travel writing from France">France</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="48.86409366210158"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="2.3615670200875383"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + I've been thinking the last couple of days about something Bill's dad said to me before I left. I'm paraphrasing here since I don't remember the exact phrasing he used, but something to the effect of "people are essentially the same everywhere, they just build their houses differently." Indeed, Parisian architecture is completely unlike anything in America. Perhaps more than any other single element, architecture reflects culture and the ideas of the people that make up culture. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/10/sainte-chapelle" title="Sainte Chapelle"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/saintechapelle.jpg" alt="Sainte Chapelle" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/10/sainte-chapelle" class="u-url" title="Sainte Chapelle">Sainte Chapelle</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-10-28T18:25:56">October <span>28, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Paris</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/france/" title="travel writing from France">France</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="48.85556694853056"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="2.3452591892792514"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Sainte Chapelle was interesting to see after the modern, conceptual art stuff at the Pompidou, rather than simple stained glass, Sainte Chapelle felt quite conceptual. In a sense the entire Bible (i.e. all history from that perspective) is unfolding simultaneously, quite a so-called post-modern idea if you think about it. And yet it was conceived and executed over 800 years ago. Kind of kicks a lot pretentious modern art in its collective ass. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/10/living-railway-car" title="Living in a Railway Car"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/sacrecoeur.jpg" alt="Living in a Railway Car" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/10/living-railway-car" class="u-url" title="Living in a Railway Car">Living in a Railway Car</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-10-24T11:20:54">October <span>24, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Paris</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/france/" title="travel writing from France">France</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="48.86416424141684"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="2.3617815968086964"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + This French apartment is more like a railway sleeper car than apartment proper. Maybe fifteen feet long and only three feet wide at the ceiling. More like five feet wide at the floor, but, because it's an attic, the outer wall slopes in and you lose two feet by the time you get to the ceiling. It's narrow enough that you can't pass another body when you walk to length of it. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/10/twenty-more-minutes-go" title="Twenty More Minutes to Go"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/heretogo.jpg" alt="Twenty More Minutes to Go" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/10/twenty-more-minutes-go" class="u-url" title="Twenty More Minutes to Go">Twenty More Minutes to Go</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-10-20T18:19:10">October <span>20, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Newport Beach</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">California</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.63332664528318"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-117.90302036551485"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Well it's the night before I leave. I just got done pacing around the driveway of my parents house smoking cigarettes… nervously? Excitedly? Restlessly? A bit of all of those I suppose. I walk across the street, over the drainage ditch and head for the swing set at the park. Right now I'm swinging in a park in Costa Mesa California. Tomorrow France. Weird. [Photo to the right, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/scarin/53961434/">via Flickr</a>] + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/10/tips-and-resources" title="Travel Tips and Resources"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/travelgear.jpg" alt="Travel Tips and Resources" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/10/tips-and-resources" class="u-url" title="Travel Tips and Resources">Travel Tips and Resources</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-10-19T18:14:56">October <span>19, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Newport Beach</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">California</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.632093907236325"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-117.90123937872937"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + An overview of the things you might want to bring on an extended trip, as well as some tips and recommendations on things like visas and vaccinations. The part that was most helpful for me was learning what I <em>didn't</em> need to bring — as it turns out, quite a bit. Nowadays my pack is much smaller and lighter. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/10/new-luddites" title="The New Luddites"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/books.jpg" alt="The New Luddites" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/10/new-luddites" class="u-url" title="The New Luddites">The New Luddites</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-10-08T18:17:45">October <span>8, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Newport Beach</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">California</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.632147504909575"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-117.90106771735248"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + An older, non-travel piece about Google's plan to scan all the world's books and Luddite-like response from many authors. Let's see, someone wants to make your book easier to find, searchable and indexable and you're opposed to it? You're a fucking idiot. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/03/one-nation-under-groove" title="One Nation Under a Groove"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/ipod.jpg" alt="One Nation Under a Groove" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/03/one-nation-under-groove" class="u-url" title="One Nation Under a Groove">One Nation Under a Groove</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-03-25T18:12:59">March <span>25, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Northampton</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Massachusetts</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="42.32254049078504"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-72.62804030361058"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The sky is falling! The iPod! It's ruining our culture! Or, uh, maybe it's just like the Walkman, but better. And since, so far as I can tell, the world did not collapse with the introduction of the Walkman and headphones, it probably isn't going to fall apart just because the storage format for our music has changed. [Photo to the right via <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/rogpool/2960735485/">Flickr</a>] + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/02/farewell-mr-hunter-s-thompson" title="Farewell Mr. Hunter S Thompson"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/thompson.jpg" alt="Farewell Mr. Hunter S Thompson" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/02/farewell-mr-hunter-s-thompson" class="u-url" title="Farewell Mr. Hunter S Thompson">Farewell Mr. Hunter S Thompson</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-02-24T18:11:10">February <span>24, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Northampton</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Massachusetts</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="42.322635681187286"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-72.62795447292216"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Hunter S. Thompson departs on a journey to the western lands. Thompson's <em>Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas</em> delivered the penultimate eulogy for the dreams of the 1960's, one that mourned, but also tried to lay the empty idealism to rest. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2004/10/art-essay" title="The Art of the Essay"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/essay.jpg" alt="The Art of the Essay" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2004/10/art-essay" class="u-url" title="The Art of the Essay">The Art of the Essay</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2004-10-10T18:03:13">October <span>10, 2004</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Northampton</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Massachusetts</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="42.322477030437234"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-72.62834071102037"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + I generally ignore internet debates, they never go anywhere, so why bother. But we all have our weak points and when programmer Paul Graham posted what might be the dumbest essay on writing that's ever been written, I just couldn't help myuself. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2003/09/farewell-mr-cash" title="Farewell Mr. Cash"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/cash.jpg" alt="Farewell Mr. Cash" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2003/09/farewell-mr-cash" class="u-url" title="Farewell Mr. Cash">Farewell Mr. Cash</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2003-09-12T22:54:50">September <span>12, 2003</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Northampton</span>, <a 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class="u-url" title="The Book of Right On">The Book of Right On</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-03-31T00:01:02">March <span>31, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Sinoukville</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/cambodia/" title="travel writing from Cambodia">Cambodia</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="10.626275865572227"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="103.49945066918632"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The next day we continued on to Sinoukville which is Cambodia's attempt at a seaside resort. Combining the essential elements of Goa and Thailand, Sinoukville is a pleasant, if somewhat hippy-oriented, travelers haven. We rented Honda Dreams and cruised down the coast to deserted white sand beaches, thatched huts serving noodles and rice, where we watched sunsets and dodged rain storms. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/03/midnight-perfect-world" title="Midnight in a Perfect World"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/deathisland.jpg" alt="Midnight in a Perfect World" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/03/midnight-perfect-world" class="u-url" title="Midnight in a Perfect World">Midnight in a Perfect World</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-03-26T23:58:12">March <span>26, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Death Island</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/cambodia/" title="travel writing from Cambodia">Cambodia</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="10.438267017137903"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="104.32325361706974"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Death Island, as Rob nicknamed it, was just what I needed. The first day we sat down for lunch and ordered crab; a boy in his underwear proceeded to run out of the kitchen, swam out in the ocean and began unloading crabs from a trap into a bucket. It doesn't get much fresher than that. Throw in a nice beach, some cheap bungalows and you're away. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/03/angkor-wat" title="Angkor Wat"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/angkorwat.jpg" alt="Angkor Wat" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/03/angkor-wat" class="u-url" title="Angkor Wat">Angkor Wat</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-03-21T23:55:50">March <span>21, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Angkor Wat</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/cambodia/" title="travel writing from Cambodia">Cambodia</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="13.497808126788645"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="103.89289854510803"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Roughly half a million people a year visit Angkor Wat. The first evening we decided to see just how tourist-filled Angkor was by heading to the most popular sunset temple, Phnom Bakheng, to watch the sunset. And there were a lot of tourists. Thousands of them. And that was just at one temple. Thus was hatched the plan: see Angkor in the heat of the day. Yes it will be hot. Hot hot hot. Fucking hot. But hopefully empty. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/03/wait-til-it-blows" title="...Wait 'til it Blows"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/landmines.jpg" alt="...Wait 'til it Blows" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/03/wait-til-it-blows" class="u-url" title="...Wait 'til it Blows">…Wait ‘til it Blows</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-03-18T23:52:55">March <span>18, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Seam Reap</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/cambodia/" title="travel writing from Cambodia">Cambodia</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="13.361228724078332"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="103.86148451313011"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + One the things I may have failed to mention thus far in my Cambodia reportage is that this was/is one of the most heavily mined areas in the world. You might think that removing landmines involves sophisticated technology of the sort you see in BBC documentaries on Bosnia, but here in Cambodia landmine removal is most often handled by the technological marvel of southeast Asia — the bamboo stick. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/03/beginning-see-light" title="Beginning to See the Light"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/floatingvillage.jpg" alt="Beginning to See the Light" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/03/beginning-see-light" class="u-url" title="Beginning to See the Light">Beginning to See the Light</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-03-16T20:45:20">March <span>16, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Floating Village</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/cambodia/" title="travel writing from Cambodia">Cambodia</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="12.821174848475923"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="104.04052732926735"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Surprisingly, a floating village is not that different than a village on the land. There are the same stores, the computer repair shop, the grocers, the petrol station, the temple, the dance hall and all the other things that makeup a town. I could even say with some authority that the town is laid out in streets, watery pathways that form nearly perfect lines. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/03/blood-tracks" title="Blood on the Tracks"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/killingfields.jpg" alt="Blood on the Tracks" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/03/blood-tracks" class="u-url" title="Blood on the Tracks">Blood on the Tracks</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-03-14T23:41:41">March <span>14, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Phenom Phen</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/cambodia/" title="travel writing from Cambodia">Cambodia</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="11.56597559052094"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="104.92750166386062"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + As I mentioned in the last entry I came down with a bit of a fever for a few days. This was accompanied by what we in the group have come to term, for lack of a nicer, but equally descriptive phrase — pissing out the ass. It's not a pretty picture. Nor is it a pleasant experience, and consequently I don't have a real clear recollection of the journey from Ban Lung to Kratie or from Kratie out to Sen Monoron. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/03/ticket-ride" title="Ticket To Ride"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/hondadream.jpg" alt="Ticket To Ride" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/03/ticket-ride" class="u-url" title="Ticket To Ride">Ticket To Ride</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-03-07T23:39:02">March <span>7, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Ban Lung</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/cambodia/" title="travel writing from Cambodia">Cambodia</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="13.734549299840165"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="106.97941301763984"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + I can't see. My eyebrows are orange with dust. I cannot see them, but I know they must be; they were yesterday. 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role="main" id="writing-archive" class="archive"> + <h1 class="hide">Writing from Cambodia</h1> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/03/book-right" title="The Book of Right On"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/goodbyes.jpg" alt="The Book of Right On" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/03/book-right" class="u-url" title="The Book of Right On">The Book of Right On</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-03-31T00:01:02">March <span>31, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Sinoukville</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/cambodia/" title="travel writing from Cambodia">Cambodia</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="10.626275865572227"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="103.49945066918632"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The next day we continued on to Sinoukville which is Cambodia's attempt at a seaside resort. Combining the essential elements of Goa and Thailand, Sinoukville is a pleasant, if somewhat hippy-oriented, travelers haven. We rented Honda Dreams and cruised down the coast to deserted white sand beaches, thatched huts serving noodles and rice, where we watched sunsets and dodged rain storms. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/03/midnight-perfect-world" title="Midnight in a Perfect World"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/deathisland.jpg" alt="Midnight in a Perfect World" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/03/midnight-perfect-world" class="u-url" title="Midnight in a Perfect World">Midnight in a Perfect World</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-03-26T23:58:12">March <span>26, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Death Island</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/cambodia/" title="travel writing from Cambodia">Cambodia</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="10.438267017137903"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="104.32325361706974"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Death Island, as Rob nicknamed it, was just what I needed. The first day we sat down for lunch and ordered crab; a boy in his underwear proceeded to run out of the kitchen, swam out in the ocean and began unloading crabs from a trap into a bucket. It doesn't get much fresher than that. Throw in a nice beach, some cheap bungalows and you're away. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/03/angkor-wat" title="Angkor Wat"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/angkorwat.jpg" alt="Angkor Wat" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/03/angkor-wat" class="u-url" title="Angkor Wat">Angkor Wat</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-03-21T23:55:50">March <span>21, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Angkor Wat</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/cambodia/" title="travel writing from Cambodia">Cambodia</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="13.497808126788645"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="103.89289854510803"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Roughly half a million people a year visit Angkor Wat. The first evening we decided to see just how tourist-filled Angkor was by heading to the most popular sunset temple, Phnom Bakheng, to watch the sunset. And there were a lot of tourists. Thousands of them. And that was just at one temple. Thus was hatched the plan: see Angkor in the heat of the day. Yes it will be hot. Hot hot hot. Fucking hot. But hopefully empty. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/03/wait-til-it-blows" title="...Wait 'til it Blows"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/landmines.jpg" alt="...Wait 'til it Blows" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/03/wait-til-it-blows" class="u-url" title="...Wait 'til it Blows">…Wait ‘til it Blows</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-03-18T23:52:55">March <span>18, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Seam Reap</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/cambodia/" title="travel writing from Cambodia">Cambodia</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="13.361228724078332"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="103.86148451313011"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + One the things I may have failed to mention thus far in my Cambodia reportage is that this was/is one of the most heavily mined areas in the world. You might think that removing landmines involves sophisticated technology of the sort you see in BBC documentaries on Bosnia, but here in Cambodia landmine removal is most often handled by the technological marvel of southeast Asia — the bamboo stick. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/03/beginning-see-light" title="Beginning to See the Light"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/floatingvillage.jpg" alt="Beginning to See the Light" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/03/beginning-see-light" class="u-url" title="Beginning to See the Light">Beginning to See the Light</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-03-16T20:45:20">March <span>16, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Floating Village</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/cambodia/" title="travel writing from Cambodia">Cambodia</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="12.821174848475923"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="104.04052732926735"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Surprisingly, a floating village is not that different than a village on the land. There are the same stores, the computer repair shop, the grocers, the petrol station, the temple, the dance hall and all the other things that makeup a town. I could even say with some authority that the town is laid out in streets, watery pathways that form nearly perfect lines. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/03/blood-tracks" title="Blood on the Tracks"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/killingfields.jpg" alt="Blood on the Tracks" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/03/blood-tracks" class="u-url" title="Blood on the Tracks">Blood on the Tracks</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-03-14T23:41:41">March <span>14, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Phenom Phen</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/cambodia/" title="travel writing from Cambodia">Cambodia</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="11.56597559052094"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="104.92750166386062"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + As I mentioned in the last entry I came down with a bit of a fever for a few days. This was accompanied by what we in the group have come to term, for lack of a nicer, but equally descriptive phrase — pissing out the ass. It's not a pretty picture. Nor is it a pleasant experience, and consequently I don't have a real clear recollection of the journey from Ban Lung to Kratie or from Kratie out to Sen Monoron. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/03/ticket-ride" title="Ticket To Ride"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/hondadream.jpg" alt="Ticket To Ride" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/03/ticket-ride" class="u-url" title="Ticket To Ride">Ticket To Ride</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-03-07T23:39:02">March <span>7, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Ban Lung</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/cambodia/" title="travel writing from Cambodia">Cambodia</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="13.734549299840165"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="106.97941301763984"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + I can't see. My eyebrows are orange with dust. I cannot see them, but I know they must be; they were yesterday. Every now and then when her legs clench down on my hips or her fingernails dig into my shoulders, I remember Debi is behind me and I am more or less responsible for not killing both of us. + </span> + </p> + </article> + </main> + <nav class="pagination"> + + + </nav> + + + <footer role="contentinfo"> + <nav class="bl"> + <ul> + <li><a href="/rss/" title="RSS feed">Subscribe</a></li> + <li><a href="https://twitter.com/luxagraf" rel="me" title="follow luxagraf on Twitter">@luxagraf</a></li> + <li><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/luxagraf" rel="me" title="luxagraf on Flickr">Flickr</a></li> + <li><a href="/contact/" title="contact luxagraf">Contact</a></li> + </ul> + </nav> + <p id="license"> + © 2003-2014 + <span class="h-card"><a class="p-name u-url" href="https://luxagraf.net/">Scott Gilbertson</a><data class="p-nickname" value="luxagraf"></data><data class="p-locality" value="Athens"></data><data class="p-region" value="Georgia"></data><data class="p-country-name" value="United 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from Nicaragua">Nicaragua</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="12.436482242903942"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-86.88458203059939"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + A short thought on the eve of our departure from Nicaragua: Everywhere I go I think, I should live here... I should be able to not just visit places, but in habit them. Of course that isn't possible, which is too bad. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2008/07/tiny-cities-made-ash" title="Tiny Cities Made of Ash"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/citiesmadeofash.jpg" alt="Tiny Cities Made of Ash" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2008/07/tiny-cities-made-ash" class="u-url" title="Tiny Cities Made of Ash">Tiny Cities Made of Ash</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2008-07-03T23:21:22">July <span>3, 2008</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">León</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/nicaragua/" title="travel writing from Nicaragua">Nicaragua</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="12.435654551658532"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-86.88220022899453"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The church bells of León have become a constant cacophony, not the rhythmic ringing out of the hours or tolling from Mass that the human mind seems to find pleasant, but the atonal banging that only appeals to the young and dumb. But Francisco is entirely unperturbed; He's too fascinated with the tattoo on Corrinne's shoulder to bother with what slowly just becomes yet another sound echoing through León. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2008/06/you-cant-go-home-again" title="You Can't Go Home Again"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/nohomeagain.jpg" alt="You Can't Go Home Again" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2008/06/you-cant-go-home-again" class="u-url" title="You Can't Go Home Again">You Can’t Go Home Again</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2008-06-30T17:49:43">June <span>30, 2008</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Little Corn Island</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/nicaragua/" title="travel writing from Nicaragua">Nicaragua</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="12.289688381766881"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-82.97098158635038"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The first time we came to Little Corn Island it was April, the tail end of the dry season. It rained once or twice, but never for more than five minutes and always followed by more sunshine. This time it's the end of June, just well into the wet season, and the island is an entirely different place. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2008/06/returning-again-back-little-corn-island" title="Returning Again &mdash; Back on Little Corn Island"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/littlecornagain.jpg" alt="Returning Again &mdash; Back on Little Corn Island" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2008/06/returning-again-back-little-corn-island" class="u-url" title="Returning Again &mdash; Back on Little Corn Island">Returning Again — Back on Little Corn Island</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2008-06-26T13:21:17">June <span>26, 2008</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Little Corn Island</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/nicaragua/" title="travel writing from Nicaragua">Nicaragua</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="12.290694745245395"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-82.97132490910438"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Generally speaking, the world seems so huge and so full of amazing destinations that repeating one never struck me as a judicious use of my short allotment of time. But for Little Corn Island I'm willing to make an exception and of course, the universe being what it is, our second trip to Little Corn Island has been unpredictable and entirely new. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2008/04/little-island-sun" title="Little Island in the Sun"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/coconutsun.jpg" alt="Little Island in the Sun" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2008/04/little-island-sun" class="u-url" title="Little Island in the Sun">Little Island in the Sun</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2008-04-05T23:31:15">April <span>5, 2008</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Little Corn Island</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/nicaragua/" title="travel writing from Nicaragua">Nicaragua</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="12.297403736673346"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-82.97458647526604"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + We arrived on Little Corn Island around sundown and met Ali, whom I at first took to be a tout, but he showed us the way to our guesthouse and, after settling in and getting a feel for the island, I realized that Ali, wasn't a tout, he was just a really nice guy who enjoyed doing favors for tourists, just beware the Yoni beverage he offers. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2008/04/return-sea" title="Return to the Sea"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/sanjuansunset.jpg" alt="Return to the Sea" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2008/04/return-sea" class="u-url" title="Return to the Sea">Return to the Sea</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2008-04-02T20:22:29">April <span>2, 2008</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">San Juan Del Sur</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/nicaragua/" title="travel writing from Nicaragua">Nicaragua</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="11.254384499067603"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-85.8734750628141"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Southwestern Nicaragua is a very small strip of land with Lago Nicaragua to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. The main town in the area, Juan Del Sur, is nestled around a well protected harbor with a mediocre strip of sand. For the nice beaches you have to head up or down the coast to one of the many small inlets. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2008/03/ring-bells" title="Ring The Bells"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/ringthbells.jpg" alt="Ring The Bells" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2008/03/ring-bells" class="u-url" title="Ring The Bells">Ring The Bells</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2008-03-30T23:37:40">March <span>30, 2008</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Granada</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/nicaragua/" title="travel writing from Nicaragua">Nicaragua</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="11.932062265861589"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-85.95813630814854"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The Church, which dates from the 1600s has the the narrowest, steepest, circular concrete staircase that I've ever encountered. It had a low railing and circled up four stories worth of precipitous dropoffs before you hit solid ground. From the top was a views of Granada's endless sea of mottled pink, orange and brown hues -- terra cotta roof tiles stretching from the shores of Lago Nicaragua all the way back toward the hills. + </span> + </p> + </article> + </main> + <nav class="pagination"> + + + </nav> + + + <footer role="contentinfo"> + <nav class="bl"> + <ul> + <li><a href="/rss/" title="RSS feed">Subscribe</a></li> + <li><a href="https://twitter.com/luxagraf" rel="me" title="follow luxagraf on Twitter">@luxagraf</a></li> + <li><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/luxagraf" rel="me" title="luxagraf on Flickr">Flickr</a></li> + <li><a href="/contact/" title="contact luxagraf">Contact</a></li> + </ul> + </nav> + <p id="license"> + © 2003-2014 + <span class="h-card"><a class="p-name u-url" href="https://luxagraf.net/">Scott Gilbertson</a><data class="p-nickname" value="luxagraf"></data><data class="p-locality" value="Athens"></data><data class="p-region" value="Georgia"></data><data class="p-country-name" 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<li>Central America</li> + </ul> + <main role="main" id="writing-archive" class="archive"> + <h1 class="hide">Writing from Central America</h1> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2008/07/our-days-are-becoming-nights" title="Our Days Are Becoming Nights"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/daysnights.jpg" alt="Our Days Are Becoming Nights" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2008/07/our-days-are-becoming-nights" class="u-url" title="Our Days Are Becoming Nights">Our Days Are Becoming Nights</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2008-07-06T23:30:25">July <span>6, 2008</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">León</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/nicaragua/" title="travel writing from Nicaragua">Nicaragua</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="12.436482242903942"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-86.88458203059939"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + A short thought on the eve of our departure from Nicaragua: Everywhere I go I think, I should live here... I should be able to not just visit places, but in habit them. Of course that isn't possible, which is too bad. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2008/07/tiny-cities-made-ash" title="Tiny Cities Made of Ash"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/citiesmadeofash.jpg" alt="Tiny Cities Made of Ash" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2008/07/tiny-cities-made-ash" class="u-url" title="Tiny Cities Made of Ash">Tiny Cities Made of Ash</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2008-07-03T23:21:22">July <span>3, 2008</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">León</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/nicaragua/" title="travel writing from Nicaragua">Nicaragua</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="12.435654551658532"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-86.88220022899453"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The church bells of León have become a constant cacophony, not the rhythmic ringing out of the hours or tolling from Mass that the human mind seems to find pleasant, but the atonal banging that only appeals to the young and dumb. But Francisco is entirely unperturbed; He's too fascinated with the tattoo on Corrinne's shoulder to bother with what slowly just becomes yet another sound echoing through León. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2008/06/you-cant-go-home-again" title="You Can't Go Home Again"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/nohomeagain.jpg" alt="You Can't Go Home Again" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2008/06/you-cant-go-home-again" class="u-url" title="You Can't Go Home Again">You Can’t Go Home Again</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2008-06-30T17:49:43">June <span>30, 2008</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Little Corn Island</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/nicaragua/" title="travel writing from Nicaragua">Nicaragua</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="12.289688381766881"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-82.97098158635038"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The first time we came to Little Corn Island it was April, the tail end of the dry season. It rained once or twice, but never for more than five minutes and always followed by more sunshine. This time it's the end of June, just well into the wet season, and the island is an entirely different place. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2008/06/returning-again-back-little-corn-island" title="Returning Again &mdash; Back on Little Corn Island"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/littlecornagain.jpg" alt="Returning Again &mdash; Back on Little Corn Island" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2008/06/returning-again-back-little-corn-island" class="u-url" title="Returning Again &mdash; Back on Little Corn Island">Returning Again — Back on Little Corn Island</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2008-06-26T13:21:17">June <span>26, 2008</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Little Corn Island</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/nicaragua/" title="travel writing from Nicaragua">Nicaragua</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="12.290694745245395"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-82.97132490910438"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Generally speaking, the world seems so huge and so full of amazing destinations that repeating one never struck me as a judicious use of my short allotment of time. But for Little Corn Island I'm willing to make an exception and of course, the universe being what it is, our second trip to Little Corn Island has been unpredictable and entirely new. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2008/04/little-island-sun" title="Little Island in the Sun"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/coconutsun.jpg" alt="Little Island in the Sun" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2008/04/little-island-sun" class="u-url" title="Little Island in the Sun">Little Island in the Sun</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2008-04-05T23:31:15">April <span>5, 2008</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Little Corn Island</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/nicaragua/" title="travel writing from Nicaragua">Nicaragua</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="12.297403736673346"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-82.97458647526604"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + We arrived on Little Corn Island around sundown and met Ali, whom I at first took to be a tout, but he showed us the way to our guesthouse and, after settling in and getting a feel for the island, I realized that Ali, wasn't a tout, he was just a really nice guy who enjoyed doing favors for tourists, just beware the Yoni beverage he offers. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2008/04/return-sea" title="Return to the Sea"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/sanjuansunset.jpg" alt="Return to the Sea" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2008/04/return-sea" class="u-url" title="Return to the Sea">Return to the Sea</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2008-04-02T20:22:29">April <span>2, 2008</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">San Juan Del Sur</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/nicaragua/" title="travel writing from Nicaragua">Nicaragua</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="11.254384499067603"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-85.8734750628141"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Southwestern Nicaragua is a very small strip of land with Lago Nicaragua to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. The main town in the area, Juan Del Sur, is nestled around a well protected harbor with a mediocre strip of sand. For the nice beaches you have to head up or down the coast to one of the many small inlets. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2008/03/ring-bells" title="Ring The Bells"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/ringthbells.jpg" alt="Ring The Bells" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2008/03/ring-bells" class="u-url" title="Ring The Bells">Ring The Bells</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2008-03-30T23:37:40">March <span>30, 2008</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Granada</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/nicaragua/" title="travel writing from Nicaragua">Nicaragua</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="11.932062265861589"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-85.95813630814854"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The Church, which dates from the 1600s has the the narrowest, steepest, circular concrete staircase that I've ever encountered. It had a low railing and circled up four stories worth of precipitous dropoffs before you hit solid ground. From the top was a views of Granada's endless sea of mottled pink, orange and brown hues -- terra cotta roof tiles stretching from the shores of Lago Nicaragua all the way back toward the hills. + </span> + </p> + </article> + </main> + <nav class="pagination"> + + + </nav> + + + <footer role="contentinfo"> + <nav class="bl"> + <ul> + <li><a href="/rss/" title="RSS feed">Subscribe</a></li> + <li><a href="https://twitter.com/luxagraf" rel="me" title="follow luxagraf on Twitter">@luxagraf</a></li> + <li><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/luxagraf" rel="me" title="luxagraf on Flickr">Flickr</a></li> + <li><a href="/contact/" title="contact luxagraf">Contact</a></li> + </ul> + </nav> + <p id="license"> + © 2003-2014 + <span class="h-card"><a class="p-name u-url" href="https://luxagraf.net/">Scott Gilbertson</a><data class="p-nickname" value="luxagraf"></data><data class="p-locality" value="Athens"></data><data class="p-region" value="Georgia"></data><data class="p-country-name" 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<data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="28.210482777870325"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="83.95820616507119"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + After about forty-five minutes of paddling I reached a point where the views of the Annapurna range were, in the words of an Englishman I met in Katmandu, "gob smacking gorgeous." I put down the paddle and moved to the center of the boat where the benches were wider and, using my bag a cushion, lay back against the gunwale and hung my feet over the opposite side so that they just skimmed the surface of the chilly water. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/12/pashupatinath" title="Pashupatinath"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/nepalburninggahts.jpg" alt="Pashupatinath" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/12/pashupatinath" class="u-url" title="Pashupatinath">Pashupatinath</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-12-15T18:02:59">December <span>15, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Pashupatinath</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/nepal/" title="travel writing from Nepal">Nepal</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="27.71057315568692"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="85.34853457216452"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Nestled on a hillside beside the Bagmati River, Pashupatinath is one of the holiest sites in the world for Hindus, second only to Varanasi in India. Pashupatinath consists of a large temple which is open only to Hindus, surrounded by a number of smaller shrines and then down on the banks of the Bagmati are the burning ghats where bodies are cremated. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/12/durbar-square-kathmandu" title="Durbar Square Kathmandu"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/durbarsquare.jpg" alt="Durbar Square Kathmandu" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/12/durbar-square-kathmandu" class="u-url" title="Durbar Square Kathmandu">Durbar Square Kathmandu</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-12-15T17:57:48">December <span>15, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Kathmandu</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/nepal/" title="travel writing from Nepal">Nepal</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="27.703363690641837"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="85.31737803225191"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + After saturating myself with the streets of Thamel I went on a longer excursion down to Durbar Square to see the various pagodas, temples and the old palace. The palace itself no longer houses the King, but is still used for coronations and ceremonies and Durbar Square is still very much the hub of Katmandu. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/12/goodbye-india" title="Goodbye India"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/indiadelhi.jpg" alt="Goodbye India" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/12/goodbye-india" class="u-url" title="Goodbye India">Goodbye India</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-12-10T17:53:25">December <span>10, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Delhi</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/india/" title="travel writing from India">India</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="28.6418241967323"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="77.21092699883451"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + I have taken almost 750 photos and traveled nearly 4000 km (2500 miles) in India, the vast majority of it by train. I have seen everything from depressing squalor to majestic palaces and yet I still feel as if I have hardly scratched the surface. I can't think of another and certainly have never been to a country with the kind of geographic and ethnic diversity of India. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/12/taj-express" title="The Taj Express"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/tajmahal.jpg" alt="The Taj Express" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/12/taj-express" class="u-url" title="The Taj Express">The Taj Express</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-12-09T17:49:40">December <span>9, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Agra</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/india/" title="travel writing from India">India</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="27.17280401257652"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="78.04176806317186"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The Taj Mahal is one of the Seven Wonders of the World, and, given the level of hype I was fully prepared to be underwhelmed, but I was wrong. I have never in my life seen anything so extravagant, elegant and colossal. The Taj Mahal seems mythically, spiritually, as well as architecturally, to have risen from nowhere, without equal or context. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/12/camel-no-name" title="On a Camel With No Name"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/cameltrek.jpg" alt="On a Camel With No Name" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/12/camel-no-name" class="u-url" title="On a Camel With No Name">On a Camel With No Name</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-12-05T22:46:54">December <span>5, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Thar Desert</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/india/" title="travel writing from India">India</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="27.004078760567136"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="70.89065550770995"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The Thar Desert is a bewitching if stark place. It reminded me of areas of the Great Basin between Las Vegas and St. George, Utah. Twigging mesquite-like trees, bluish gray bushes resembling creosote, a very large bush that resembled a Palo Verde tree and grew in impenetrable clumps, and, strangely, only one species of cactus and not a whole lot of them. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/12/majestic-fort" title="The Majestic Fort"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/jodhpurfort.jpg" alt="The Majestic Fort" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/12/majestic-fort" class="u-url" title="The Majestic Fort">The Majestic Fort</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-12-02T17:40:02">December <span>2, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Jodhpur</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/india/" title="travel writing from India">India</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="26.29741635354351"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="73.01766871389577"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The next day I hopped in a rickshaw and headed up to tour Meherangarh, or the Majestic Fort as it's known in English. As its English name indicates, it is indeed perched majestically atop the only hill around, and seems not so much built on a hill as to have naturally risen out the very rocks that form the mesa on which it rests. The outer wall encloses some of the sturdiest and most impressive ramparts I've seen in India or anywhere else. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/11/around-udaipur" title="Around Udaipur"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/shiplogram.jpg" alt="Around Udaipur" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/11/around-udaipur" class="u-url" title="Around Udaipur">Around Udaipur</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-11-30T19:05:47">November <span>30, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Udiapur</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/india/" title="travel writing from India">India</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="24.667610368715458"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="73.78486632273662"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Just out of Udaipur is a government sponsored "artist colony" for various cultures from the five nearby states, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Karnataka, Goa and Madhya Pradesh. On one hand Shilpogram is a wonderful idea on the part of the government, but on the other hand the "artists colony" is slightly creepy. Amidst displays of typical tribal life there were artists and craftsmen and women hawking their wares along with dancers and musicians performing traditional songs. The whole thing had the feel of a living museum, or, for the creepy angle — human zoo. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/11/monsoon-palace" title="The Monsoon Palace"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/monsoonpalace.jpg" alt="The Monsoon Palace" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/11/monsoon-palace" class="u-url" title="The Monsoon Palace">The Monsoon Palace</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-11-29T12:03:31">November <span>29, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Udiapur</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/india/" title="travel writing from India">India</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="24.66199437588058"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="73.68804930614868"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + We started out in the early evening quickly leaving behind Udaipur and its increasing urban sprawl. The road to the Monsoon Palace passes through the Sajjan Garh Nature Preserve and there was a sudden and dramatic drop in temperature, but then the road climbed out of the hollow and the temperature jumped back up to comfortable as we began to climb the mountain in a series of hairpin switchbacks. As the sun slowly slunk behind the mountain range to the west the balconies and balustrades of the Monsoon Palace took on an increasingly orange hue. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/11/city-palace" title="The City Palace"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/citypalaceudaipur.jpg" alt="The City Palace" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/11/city-palace" class="u-url" title="The City Palace">The City Palace</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-11-28T22:00:46">November <span>28, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Udiapur</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/india/" title="travel writing from India">India</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="24.591304879190837"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="73.69319914745653"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + I spent some time sitting in the inner gardens of the City Place, listening to rustling trees and the various guides bringing small groups of western and Indian tourists through the garden. In the center of the hanging gardens was the kings, extremely oversized bath, which reminded me of children's book that I once gave to a friend's daughter; it was a massively oversized and lavishly illustrated book that told the story of a king who refused to get out of the bath and instead made his ministers, advisors, cooks and even his wife conduct business by getting in the bath with him. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/11/living-airport-terminals" title="Living in Airport Terminals"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/ceilingfanindia.jpg" alt="Living in Airport Terminals" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/11/living-airport-terminals" class="u-url" title="Living in Airport Terminals">Living in Airport Terminals</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-11-27T11:56:20">November <span>27, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Ahmedabad</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/india/" title="travel writing from India">India</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="23.009675285624738"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="72.56237982693523"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Airport terminals are fast becoming my favorite part of traveling. When you stop and observe them closely as I have been forced to do on this trip, terminals are actually quite beautiful, weird places. Terminals inhabit a unique space in the architecture of humanity, perhaps the strangest of all spaces we have created; a space that is itself only a boundary that delineates the border between what was and what will be without leaving any space at all for what is. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/11/anjuna-market" title="Anjuna Market"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/anjunabeachmarket.jpg" alt="Anjuna Market" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/11/anjuna-market" class="u-url" title="Anjuna Market">Anjuna Market</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-11-24T00:58:15">November <span>24, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Anjuna Beach</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/india/" title="travel writing from India">India</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="15.58128947293701"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="73.73886107371965"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Earlier today I caught a bus up to the Anjuna Flea Market and can now tell you for certain that old hippies do not die, they simply move to Goa. The flea market was quite a spectacle; riots of color at every turn and more silver jewelry than you could shake a stick at. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/11/fish-story" title="Fish Story"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/colvabeach.jpg" alt="Fish Story" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/11/fish-story" class="u-url" title="Fish Story">Fish Story</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-11-20T00:54:46">November <span>20, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Colva Beach</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/india/" title="travel writing from India">India</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="15.277230227117771"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="73.91541479989145"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The Arabian Sea is warm and the sand sucks at your feet when you walk, schools of tiny fish dart and disappear into each receding wave. In the morning the water is nearly glassy and the beach slopes off so slowly one can walk out at least 200 meters and be only waist deep. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/11/backwaters-kerala" title="The Backwaters of Kerala"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/keralabackwater.jpg" alt="The Backwaters of Kerala" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/11/backwaters-kerala" class="u-url" title="The Backwaters of Kerala">The Backwaters of Kerala</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-11-15T00:53:50">November <span>15, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Fort Kochi</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/india/" title="travel writing from India">India</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="9.958029970964114"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="76.2533569229791"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The guide showed us Tamarind trees, coconut palms, lemon trees, vanilla vine, plantain trees and countless other shrubs and bushes whose names I have already forgotten. The most fascinating was a plant that produces a fruit something like a miniature mango that contains cyanide and which, as our guide informed us, is cultivated mainly to commit suicide with — as if it was no big deal and everyone is at least occasionally tempted to each the killer mango. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/11/vasco-de-gama-exhumed" title="Vasco de Gama Exhumed"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/fortcochin.jpg" alt="Vasco de Gama Exhumed" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/11/vasco-de-gama-exhumed" class="u-url" title="Vasco de Gama Exhumed">Vasco de Gama Exhumed</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-11-11T00:51:41">November <span>11, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Fort Kochi</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/india/" title="travel writing from India">India</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="9.964370231041409"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="76.24091147315164"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Fort Cochin is curious collision of cultures — Chinese, India and even Portuguese. Many of the obviously older buildings are of a distinctly Iberian-style — moss covered, adobe-colored arches abound. There is graveyard just down the road with a tombstone that bears the name Vasco de Gama, who died and was buried here for fourteen years before being moved to Lisbon (there we go again, more Europeans digging up and moving the dead). + </span> + </p> + </article> + </main> + <nav class="pagination"> + + + </nav> + + + <footer role="contentinfo"> + <nav class="bl"> + <ul> + <li><a href="/rss/" title="RSS feed">Subscribe</a></li> + <li><a href="https://twitter.com/luxagraf" rel="me" title="follow luxagraf on Twitter">@luxagraf</a></li> + <li><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/luxagraf" rel="me" title="luxagraf on Flickr">Flickr</a></li> + <li><a href="/contact/" title="contact luxagraf">Contact</a></li> + </ul> + </nav> + <p id="license"> + © 2003-2014 + <span class="h-card"><a class="p-name u-url" href="https://luxagraf.net/">Scott Gilbertson</a><data class="p-nickname" value="luxagraf"></data><data class="p-locality" value="Athens"></data><data class="p-region" 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itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="28.210482777870325"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="83.95820616507119"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + After about forty-five minutes of paddling I reached a point where the views of the Annapurna range were, in the words of an Englishman I met in Katmandu, "gob smacking gorgeous." I put down the paddle and moved to the center of the boat where the benches were wider and, using my bag a cushion, lay back against the gunwale and hung my feet over the opposite side so that they just skimmed the surface of the chilly water. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/12/pashupatinath" title="Pashupatinath"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/nepalburninggahts.jpg" alt="Pashupatinath" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/12/pashupatinath" class="u-url" title="Pashupatinath">Pashupatinath</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-12-15T18:02:59">December <span>15, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Pashupatinath</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/nepal/" title="travel writing from Nepal">Nepal</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="27.71057315568692"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="85.34853457216452"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Nestled on a hillside beside the Bagmati River, Pashupatinath is one of the holiest sites in the world for Hindus, second only to Varanasi in India. Pashupatinath consists of a large temple which is open only to Hindus, surrounded by a number of smaller shrines and then down on the banks of the Bagmati are the burning ghats where bodies are cremated. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/12/durbar-square-kathmandu" title="Durbar Square Kathmandu"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/durbarsquare.jpg" alt="Durbar Square Kathmandu" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/12/durbar-square-kathmandu" class="u-url" title="Durbar Square Kathmandu">Durbar Square Kathmandu</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-12-15T17:57:48">December <span>15, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Kathmandu</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/nepal/" title="travel writing from Nepal">Nepal</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="27.703363690641837"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="85.31737803225191"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + After saturating myself with the streets of Thamel I went on a longer excursion down to Durbar Square to see the various pagodas, temples and the old palace. The palace itself no longer houses the King, but is still used for coronations and ceremonies and Durbar Square is still very much the hub of Katmandu. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/12/goodbye-india" title="Goodbye India"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/indiadelhi.jpg" alt="Goodbye India" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/12/goodbye-india" class="u-url" title="Goodbye India">Goodbye India</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-12-10T17:53:25">December <span>10, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Delhi</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/india/" title="travel writing from India">India</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="28.6418241967323"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="77.21092699883451"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + I have taken almost 750 photos and traveled nearly 4000 km (2500 miles) in India, the vast majority of it by train. I have seen everything from depressing squalor to majestic palaces and yet I still feel as if I have hardly scratched the surface. I can't think of another and certainly have never been to a country with the kind of geographic and ethnic diversity of India. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/12/taj-express" title="The Taj Express"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/tajmahal.jpg" alt="The Taj Express" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/12/taj-express" class="u-url" title="The Taj Express">The Taj Express</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-12-09T17:49:40">December <span>9, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Agra</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/india/" title="travel writing from India">India</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="27.17280401257652"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="78.04176806317186"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The Taj Mahal is one of the Seven Wonders of the World, and, given the level of hype I was fully prepared to be underwhelmed, but I was wrong. I have never in my life seen anything so extravagant, elegant and colossal. The Taj Mahal seems mythically, spiritually, as well as architecturally, to have risen from nowhere, without equal or context. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/12/camel-no-name" title="On a Camel With No Name"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/cameltrek.jpg" alt="On a Camel With No Name" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/12/camel-no-name" class="u-url" title="On a Camel With No Name">On a Camel With No Name</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-12-05T22:46:54">December <span>5, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Thar Desert</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/india/" title="travel writing from India">India</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="27.004078760567136"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="70.89065550770995"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The Thar Desert is a bewitching if stark place. It reminded me of areas of the Great Basin between Las Vegas and St. George, Utah. Twigging mesquite-like trees, bluish gray bushes resembling creosote, a very large bush that resembled a Palo Verde tree and grew in impenetrable clumps, and, strangely, only one species of cactus and not a whole lot of them. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/12/majestic-fort" title="The Majestic Fort"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/jodhpurfort.jpg" alt="The Majestic Fort" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/12/majestic-fort" class="u-url" title="The Majestic Fort">The Majestic Fort</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-12-02T17:40:02">December <span>2, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Jodhpur</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/india/" title="travel writing from India">India</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="26.29741635354351"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="73.01766871389577"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The next day I hopped in a rickshaw and headed up to tour Meherangarh, or the Majestic Fort as it's known in English. As its English name indicates, it is indeed perched majestically atop the only hill around, and seems not so much built on a hill as to have naturally risen out the very rocks that form the mesa on which it rests. The outer wall encloses some of the sturdiest and most impressive ramparts I've seen in India or anywhere else. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/11/around-udaipur" title="Around Udaipur"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/shiplogram.jpg" alt="Around Udaipur" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/11/around-udaipur" class="u-url" title="Around Udaipur">Around Udaipur</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-11-30T19:05:47">November <span>30, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Udiapur</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/india/" title="travel writing from India">India</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="24.667610368715458"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="73.78486632273662"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Just out of Udaipur is a government sponsored "artist colony" for various cultures from the five nearby states, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Karnataka, Goa and Madhya Pradesh. On one hand Shilpogram is a wonderful idea on the part of the government, but on the other hand the "artists colony" is slightly creepy. Amidst displays of typical tribal life there were artists and craftsmen and women hawking their wares along with dancers and musicians performing traditional songs. The whole thing had the feel of a living museum, or, for the creepy angle — human zoo. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/11/monsoon-palace" title="The Monsoon Palace"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/monsoonpalace.jpg" alt="The Monsoon Palace" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/11/monsoon-palace" class="u-url" title="The Monsoon Palace">The Monsoon Palace</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-11-29T12:03:31">November <span>29, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Udiapur</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/india/" title="travel writing from India">India</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="24.66199437588058"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="73.68804930614868"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + We started out in the early evening quickly leaving behind Udaipur and its increasing urban sprawl. The road to the Monsoon Palace passes through the Sajjan Garh Nature Preserve and there was a sudden and dramatic drop in temperature, but then the road climbed out of the hollow and the temperature jumped back up to comfortable as we began to climb the mountain in a series of hairpin switchbacks. As the sun slowly slunk behind the mountain range to the west the balconies and balustrades of the Monsoon Palace took on an increasingly orange hue. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/11/city-palace" title="The City Palace"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/citypalaceudaipur.jpg" alt="The City Palace" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/11/city-palace" class="u-url" title="The City Palace">The City Palace</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-11-28T22:00:46">November <span>28, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Udiapur</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/india/" title="travel writing from India">India</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="24.591304879190837"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="73.69319914745653"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + I spent some time sitting in the inner gardens of the City Place, listening to rustling trees and the various guides bringing small groups of western and Indian tourists through the garden. In the center of the hanging gardens was the kings, extremely oversized bath, which reminded me of children's book that I once gave to a friend's daughter; it was a massively oversized and lavishly illustrated book that told the story of a king who refused to get out of the bath and instead made his ministers, advisors, cooks and even his wife conduct business by getting in the bath with him. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/11/living-airport-terminals" title="Living in Airport Terminals"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/ceilingfanindia.jpg" alt="Living in Airport Terminals" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/11/living-airport-terminals" class="u-url" title="Living in Airport Terminals">Living in Airport Terminals</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-11-27T11:56:20">November <span>27, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Ahmedabad</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/india/" title="travel writing from India">India</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="23.009675285624738"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="72.56237982693523"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Airport terminals are fast becoming my favorite part of traveling. When you stop and observe them closely as I have been forced to do on this trip, terminals are actually quite beautiful, weird places. Terminals inhabit a unique space in the architecture of humanity, perhaps the strangest of all spaces we have created; a space that is itself only a boundary that delineates the border between what was and what will be without leaving any space at all for what is. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/11/anjuna-market" title="Anjuna Market"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/anjunabeachmarket.jpg" alt="Anjuna Market" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/11/anjuna-market" class="u-url" title="Anjuna Market">Anjuna Market</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-11-24T00:58:15">November <span>24, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Anjuna Beach</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/india/" title="travel writing from India">India</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="15.58128947293701"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="73.73886107371965"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Earlier today I caught a bus up to the Anjuna Flea Market and can now tell you for certain that old hippies do not die, they simply move to Goa. The flea market was quite a spectacle; riots of color at every turn and more silver jewelry than you could shake a stick at. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/11/fish-story" title="Fish Story"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/colvabeach.jpg" alt="Fish Story" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/11/fish-story" class="u-url" title="Fish Story">Fish Story</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-11-20T00:54:46">November <span>20, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Colva Beach</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/india/" title="travel writing from India">India</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="15.277230227117771"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="73.91541479989145"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The Arabian Sea is warm and the sand sucks at your feet when you walk, schools of tiny fish dart and disappear into each receding wave. In the morning the water is nearly glassy and the beach slopes off so slowly one can walk out at least 200 meters and be only waist deep. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/11/backwaters-kerala" title="The Backwaters of Kerala"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/keralabackwater.jpg" alt="The Backwaters of Kerala" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/11/backwaters-kerala" class="u-url" title="The Backwaters of Kerala">The Backwaters of Kerala</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-11-15T00:53:50">November <span>15, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Fort Kochi</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/india/" title="travel writing from India">India</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="9.958029970964114"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="76.2533569229791"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The guide showed us Tamarind trees, coconut palms, lemon trees, vanilla vine, plantain trees and countless other shrubs and bushes whose names I have already forgotten. The most fascinating was a plant that produces a fruit something like a miniature mango that contains cyanide and which, as our guide informed us, is cultivated mainly to commit suicide with — as if it was no big deal and everyone is at least occasionally tempted to each the killer mango. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/11/vasco-de-gama-exhumed" title="Vasco de Gama Exhumed"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/fortcochin.jpg" alt="Vasco de Gama Exhumed" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/11/vasco-de-gama-exhumed" class="u-url" title="Vasco de Gama Exhumed">Vasco de Gama Exhumed</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-11-11T00:51:41">November <span>11, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Fort Kochi</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/india/" title="travel writing from India">India</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="9.964370231041409"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="76.24091147315164"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Fort Cochin is curious collision of cultures — Chinese, India and even Portuguese. Many of the obviously older buildings are of a distinctly Iberian-style — moss covered, adobe-colored arches abound. 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Most of the buildings date from about 1468, though some were destroyed in the great earthquake of 1667, still, by and large, the city looks as it did in the fifteenth century. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/05/blue-milk" title="Blue Milk"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/plitvice.jpg" alt="Blue Milk" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/05/blue-milk" class="u-url" title="Blue Milk">Blue Milk</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-05-16T00:32:27">May <span>16, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Dubrovnik</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/croatia/" title="travel writing from Croatia">Croatia</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="42.64133838429178"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="18.10905217872305"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + It's hard to understand, standing on the banks of such crystalline, cerulean lakes, whose dazzling colors come from the mineral rich silt runoff of glaciers, that the largest European conflict since world war two began here, at Like Plitvice Croatia. 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Republic">Czech Republic</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="50.089846390847725"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="14.418117998023494"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Just north of Prague's old town square and east of the River Vltava is Josefov, the old Jewish quarter of Prague. The Pinkas Synagogue in Josefov is an unassuming pale, sand-colored building with a slightly sunken entrance. Inside is a small alter and little else. The floor is bare; there are no places for worshipers to sit. The synagogue is little more than walls. And on the walls inscribed in extremely small print are the names of the 77,297 Jewish citizens of Bohemia and Moravia who died in the Holocaust.
+ + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/05/inside-and-out" title="Inside and Out"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/krumlovcastleatnight.jpg" alt="Inside and Out" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/05/inside-and-out" class="u-url" title="Inside and Out">Inside and Out</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-05-25T17:45:12">May <span>25, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Cesky Krumlov</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/czech-republic/" title="travel writing from Czech Republic">Czech Republic</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="48.81053057801549"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="14.317352769766009"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Chasing Egon Schiele: The attention to detail that makes the difference between a building and work of art was everywhere in Cesky Krumlov, from the delicate pink and red complements of a fine dovetailed corner, to the white plaster and oak beams of the Egon Schiele museum, which, despite geometric differences, looked not unlike the Globe Theatre in London. + </span> + </p> + </article> + </main> + <nav class="pagination"> + + + </nav> + + + <footer role="contentinfo"> + <nav class="bl"> + <ul> + <li><a href="/rss/" title="RSS feed">Subscribe</a></li> + <li><a href="https://twitter.com/luxagraf" rel="me" title="follow luxagraf on Twitter">@luxagraf</a></li> + <li><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/luxagraf" rel="me" title="luxagraf on Flickr">Flickr</a></li> + <li><a href="/contact/" title="contact luxagraf">Contact</a></li> + </ul> + </nav> + <p id="license"> + © 2003-2014 + <span 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2011</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Paris</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/france/" title="travel writing from France">France</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="48.85846248575372"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="2.3375712584730373"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Paris is angry. Cities can get angry. This isn't the first time it's happened to me. New York threw me out once. Los Angeles and I left on mutually hostile terms, though we've since made up. Cities have personalities just like people, and to really be part of a city your personalities have to mesh, you have to find each other on your own terms everyday. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2011/05/from-here-we-go-sublime" title="From Here We Go Sublime"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2011/iceland.jpg" alt="From Here We Go Sublime" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2011/05/from-here-we-go-sublime" class="u-url" title="From Here We Go Sublime">From Here We Go Sublime</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2011-05-29T02:35:00">May <span>29, 2011</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Paris</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/france/" title="travel writing from France">France</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="48.861291192122714"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="2.3879055928465687"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Just arrived Dulles-Reykjavik-Paris, 26-hour trip, no sleep. I see things. I see a grizzly looking Spaniard selling old railway lanterns at the flea market, I see muslim men playing basketball in skull caps, I see a Michael Faraday experiment with bulbs and wires enclosed in glass that turns out to be just an elevator. I see a stout Frenchwoman closing the gates of Pere Lachaise, no more dead, we've had enough of you. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/06/cadenza" title="Cadenza"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/parisglow.jpg" alt="Cadenza" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/06/cadenza" class="u-url" title="Cadenza">Cadenza</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-06-06T11:01:26">June <span>6, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Paris</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/france/" title="travel writing from France">France</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="48.86345844378468"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="2.3610842224649087"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Paris - Outside it's raining. Beads of water form on the window in front of me. The glow of the unseen sun is fading behind midnight blue clouds and darkening sky. An old man in a butcher apron selling oysters under an awning smokes a cigarette and watches the mothers and children walking home with bags of groceries. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/05/i-dont-sleep-i-dream" title="I Don't Sleep I Dream"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/freudsoffice.jpg" alt="I Don't Sleep I Dream" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/05/i-dont-sleep-i-dream" class="u-url" title="I Don't Sleep I Dream">I Don’t Sleep I Dream</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-05-28T15:00:32">May <span>28, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Vienna</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/austria/" title="travel writing from Austria">Austria</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="48.209967769727996"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="16.370648143396814"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + How can Freud's former residence in Vienna lack a couch? The closest thing is up against the wall, behind a small writing desk in what was then the waiting room — a small divan where one might stare at the patternless ceiling until the patterns emerge as it were. “Tell me about it,” he began. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/05/unreflected" title="Unreflected"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/selfportraitconvex.jpg" alt="Unreflected" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/05/unreflected" class="u-url" title="Unreflected">Unreflected</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-05-27T23:55:46">May <span>27, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Vienna</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/austria/" title="travel writing from Austria">Austria</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="48.209967769727996"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="16.370648143396814"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The Kunsthistorisches Museum contains probably the best collection of art outside of France — Rubens, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Raphael, Velazquez, Bruegel and a certain Italian for whom I have a festering personal obsession, which shall be addressed shortly — and what's remarkable about this magnificent assemblage is that the vast majority of it was once the Hapsburg's private collection. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/05/four-minutes-thirty-three-seconds" title="Four Minutes Thirty-Three Seconds"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/wallofnames.jpg" alt="Four Minutes Thirty-Three Seconds" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/05/four-minutes-thirty-three-seconds" class="u-url" title="Four Minutes Thirty-Three Seconds">Four Minutes Thirty-Three Seconds</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-05-26T14:50:24">May <span>26, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Prague</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/czech-republic/" title="travel writing from Czech Republic">Czech Republic</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="50.089846390847725"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="14.418117998023494"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Just north of Prague's old town square and east of the River Vltava is Josefov, the old Jewish quarter of Prague. The Pinkas Synagogue in Josefov is an unassuming pale, sand-colored building with a slightly sunken entrance. Inside is a small alter and little else. The floor is bare; there are no places for worshipers to sit. The synagogue is little more than walls. And on the walls inscribed in extremely small print are the names of the 77,297 Jewish citizens of Bohemia and Moravia who died in the Holocaust.
+ + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/05/inside-and-out" title="Inside and Out"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/krumlovcastleatnight.jpg" alt="Inside and Out" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/05/inside-and-out" class="u-url" title="Inside and Out">Inside and Out</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-05-25T17:45:12">May <span>25, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Cesky Krumlov</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/czech-republic/" title="travel writing from Czech Republic">Czech Republic</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="48.81053057801549"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="14.317352769766009"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Chasing Egon Schiele: The attention to detail that makes the difference between a building and work of art was everywhere in Cesky Krumlov, from the delicate pink and red complements of a fine dovetailed corner, to the white plaster and oak beams of the Egon Schiele museum, which, despite geometric differences, looked not unlike the Globe Theatre in London. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/05/king-carrot-flowers-part-two" title="The King of Carrot Flowers Part Two"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/sloveniachurch.jpg" alt="The King of Carrot Flowers Part Two" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/05/king-carrot-flowers-part-two" class="u-url" title="The King of Carrot Flowers Part Two">The King of Carrot Flowers Part Two</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-05-22T20:44:33">May <span>22, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Bled</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/slovenia/" title="travel writing from Slovenia">Slovenia</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="46.365209982615575"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="14.109942911091283"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + There is a roughly 200km loop of road that leads northwest out of Bled, through a pass in the Julian Alps and then down the other side, twisting and winding back toward Bled by way of craggy canyons, small hamlets and crystalline rivers. We set out sometime after breakfast. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/05/ghost" title="Ghost"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/trogirnight.jpg" alt="Ghost" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/05/ghost" class="u-url" title="Ghost">Ghost</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-05-19T19:37:07">May <span>19, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Ljubljana</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/slovenia/" title="travel writing from Slovenia">Slovenia</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="46.05085985632457"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="14.50674891269926"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Like Dubrovnik, Trogir is a walled city of roughly Venetian vintage, but Trogir's wall has largely crumbled away or been removed. Still, it has the gorgeous narrow cobblestone streets, arched doorways and towering forts that give all Dalmatian towns their Rapunzel-like fairly tale quality. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/05/feel-good-lost" title="Feel Good Lost"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/dubrovnik.jpg" alt="Feel Good Lost" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/05/feel-good-lost" class="u-url" title="Feel Good Lost">Feel Good Lost</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-05-18T00:38:37">May <span>18, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Dubrovnik</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/croatia/" title="travel writing from Croatia">Croatia</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="42.64133838429178"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="18.10905217872305"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Dubrovnik, Croatia was heavily shelled during the Bosnian conflict and roughly 65 percent of its buildings were hit, built for the most part you'd never know it. Most of the buildings date from about 1468, though some were destroyed in the great earthquake of 1667, still, by and large, the city looks as it did in the fifteenth century. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/05/blue-milk" title="Blue Milk"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/plitvice.jpg" alt="Blue Milk" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/05/blue-milk" class="u-url" title="Blue Milk">Blue Milk</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-05-16T00:32:27">May <span>16, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Dubrovnik</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/croatia/" title="travel writing from Croatia">Croatia</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="42.64133838429178"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="18.10905217872305"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + It's hard to understand, standing on the banks of such crystalline, cerulean lakes, whose dazzling colors come from the mineral rich silt runoff of glaciers, that the largest European conflict since world war two began here, at Like Plitvice Croatia. But indeed this is where the first shots were fired on Easter Sunday in 1991 and the first casualty was a park policeman. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/05/refracted-light-and-grace" title="Refracted Light and Grace"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/castlehillbuda.jpg" alt="Refracted Light and Grace" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/05/refracted-light-and-grace" class="u-url" title="Refracted Light and Grace">Refracted Light and Grace</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-05-11T00:26:59">May <span>11, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Budapest</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/hungary/" title="travel writing from Hungary">Hungary</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="47.483800862289485"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="19.062137601106286"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Evening, after dinner, outside on the balcony, smoking cigarettes and contemplating the nightscape of Buda's Castle Hill rising up out of its own golden reflection in the shimmering Danube waters. The drone of car horns in the distance and the electric tram squealing as it pulls out of the station below on the river a boat slowly churns upstream... + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/05/london-calling" title="London Calling"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/londonthames.jpg" alt="London Calling" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/05/london-calling" class="u-url" title="London Calling">London Calling</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-05-10T00:16:42">May <span>10, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">London</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/united-kingdom/" title="travel writing from United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="51.55119204682159"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-0.1495599746495864"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + London: The British don't want me -- no money, no proof I'm leaving and no real reason for coming, good lord, I must be a vagabond, up to no good, surely. Eventually the customs agent relents and lets me in, a favor I repay by nearly burning down one of London's bigger parks. Seriously. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/11/riots-iraqi-restaurants-goodbye-seine" title="Riots, Iraqi Restaurants, Goodbye Seine"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/seinetower.jpg" alt="Riots, Iraqi Restaurants, Goodbye Seine" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/11/riots-iraqi-restaurants-goodbye-seine" class="u-url" title="Riots, Iraqi Restaurants, Goodbye Seine">Riots, Iraqi Restaurants, Goodbye Seine</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-11-08T18:30:13">November <span>8, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Paris</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/france/" title="travel writing from France">France</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="48.863514907961644"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="2.3610734936288558"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Well it's my last night here in Paris and I've chosen to return to the best restaurant we've been to so far, an Iraqi restaurant in a Marais. I am using all my willpower right now to avoid having a political outburst re the quality of Iraqi food versus the intelligence of George Bush etc etc. I'm traveling; I don't want to get into politics except to say that my dislike for the current El Presidente was no small factor in my decision to go abroad. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/11/bury-your-dead" title="Bury Your Dead"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/pariscatacombs.jpg" alt="Bury Your Dead" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/11/bury-your-dead" class="u-url" title="Bury Your Dead">Bury Your Dead</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-11-06T18:28:52">November <span>6, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Paris</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/france/" title="travel writing from France">France</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="48.88623656623962"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="2.343757152231122"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + I would like to say that the catacombs of Paris had some spectacular effect on me seeing that I strolled through human remains, skulls and femurs mainly, "decoratively arranged," but the truth is, after you get over the initial shock of seeing a skull, well, it turns out you can get adjusted to just about anything. Maybe that in and off itself is the scary part. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/11/houses-we-live" title="The Houses We Live In"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/pariscityscape.jpg" alt="The Houses We Live In" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/11/houses-we-live" class="u-url" title="The Houses We Live In">The Houses We Live In</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-11-01T10:40:00">November <span>1, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Paris</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/france/" title="travel writing from France">France</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="48.86409366210158"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="2.3615670200875383"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + I've been thinking the last couple of days about something Bill's dad said to me before I left. I'm paraphrasing here since I don't remember the exact phrasing he used, but something to the effect of "people are essentially the same everywhere, they just build their houses differently." Indeed, Parisian architecture is completely unlike anything in America. Perhaps more than any other single element, architecture reflects culture and the ideas of the people that make up culture. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/10/sainte-chapelle" title="Sainte Chapelle"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/saintechapelle.jpg" alt="Sainte Chapelle" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/10/sainte-chapelle" class="u-url" title="Sainte Chapelle">Sainte Chapelle</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-10-28T18:25:56">October <span>28, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Paris</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/france/" title="travel writing from France">France</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="48.85556694853056"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="2.3452591892792514"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Sainte Chapelle was interesting to see after the modern, conceptual art stuff at the Pompidou, rather than simple stained glass, Sainte Chapelle felt quite conceptual. In a sense the entire Bible (i.e. all history from that perspective) is unfolding simultaneously, quite a so-called post-modern idea if you think about it. And yet it was conceived and executed over 800 years ago. Kind of kicks a lot pretentious modern art in its collective ass. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/10/living-railway-car" title="Living in a Railway Car"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/sacrecoeur.jpg" alt="Living in a Railway Car" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/10/living-railway-car" class="u-url" title="Living in a Railway Car">Living in a Railway Car</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-10-24T11:20:54">October <span>24, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Paris</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/france/" title="travel writing from France">France</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="48.86416424141684"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="2.3617815968086964"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + This French apartment is more like a railway sleeper car than apartment proper. Maybe fifteen feet long and only three feet wide at the ceiling. More like five feet wide at the floor, but, because it's an attic, the outer wall slopes in and you lose two feet by the time you get to the ceiling. 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Language of Cities"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2011/stchappelle.jpg" alt="The Language of Cities" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2011/06/language-cities" class="u-url" title="The Language of Cities">The Language of Cities</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2011-06-04T00:05:00">June <span>4, 2011</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Paris</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/france/" title="travel writing from France">France</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="48.85846248575372"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="2.3375712584730373"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Paris is angry. Cities can get angry. This isn't the first time it's happened to me. New York threw me out once. Los Angeles and I left on mutually hostile terms, though we've since made up. Cities have personalities just like people, and to really be part of a city your personalities have to mesh, you have to find each other on your own terms everyday. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2011/05/from-here-we-go-sublime" title="From Here We Go Sublime"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2011/iceland.jpg" alt="From Here We Go Sublime" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2011/05/from-here-we-go-sublime" class="u-url" title="From Here We Go Sublime">From Here We Go Sublime</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2011-05-29T02:35:00">May <span>29, 2011</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Paris</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/france/" title="travel writing from France">France</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="48.861291192122714"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="2.3879055928465687"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Just arrived Dulles-Reykjavik-Paris, 26-hour trip, no sleep. I see things. I see a grizzly looking Spaniard selling old railway lanterns at the flea market, I see muslim men playing basketball in skull caps, I see a Michael Faraday experiment with bulbs and wires enclosed in glass that turns out to be just an elevator. I see a stout Frenchwoman closing the gates of Pere Lachaise, no more dead, we've had enough of you. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/06/cadenza" title="Cadenza"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/parisglow.jpg" alt="Cadenza" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/06/cadenza" class="u-url" title="Cadenza">Cadenza</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-06-06T11:01:26">June <span>6, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Paris</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/france/" title="travel writing from France">France</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="48.86345844378468"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="2.3610842224649087"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Paris - Outside it's raining. Beads of water form on the window in front of me. The glow of the unseen sun is fading behind midnight blue clouds and darkening sky. An old man in a butcher apron selling oysters under an awning smokes a cigarette and watches the mothers and children walking home with bags of groceries. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/05/i-dont-sleep-i-dream" title="I Don't Sleep I Dream"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/freudsoffice.jpg" alt="I Don't Sleep I Dream" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/05/i-dont-sleep-i-dream" class="u-url" title="I Don't Sleep I Dream">I Don’t Sleep I Dream</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-05-28T15:00:32">May <span>28, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Vienna</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/austria/" title="travel writing from Austria">Austria</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="48.209967769727996"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="16.370648143396814"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + How can Freud's former residence in Vienna lack a couch? The closest thing is up against the wall, behind a small writing desk in what was then the waiting room — a small divan where one might stare at the patternless ceiling until the patterns emerge as it were. “Tell me about it,” he began. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/05/unreflected" title="Unreflected"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/selfportraitconvex.jpg" alt="Unreflected" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/05/unreflected" class="u-url" title="Unreflected">Unreflected</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-05-27T23:55:46">May <span>27, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Vienna</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/austria/" title="travel writing from Austria">Austria</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="48.209967769727996"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="16.370648143396814"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The Kunsthistorisches Museum contains probably the best collection of art outside of France — Rubens, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Raphael, Velazquez, Bruegel and a certain Italian for whom I have a festering personal obsession, which shall be addressed shortly — and what's remarkable about this magnificent assemblage is that the vast majority of it was once the Hapsburg's private collection. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/05/four-minutes-thirty-three-seconds" title="Four Minutes Thirty-Three Seconds"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/wallofnames.jpg" alt="Four Minutes Thirty-Three Seconds" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/05/four-minutes-thirty-three-seconds" class="u-url" title="Four Minutes Thirty-Three Seconds">Four Minutes Thirty-Three Seconds</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-05-26T14:50:24">May <span>26, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Prague</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/czech-republic/" title="travel writing from Czech Republic">Czech Republic</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="50.089846390847725"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="14.418117998023494"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Just north of Prague's old town square and east of the River Vltava is Josefov, the old Jewish quarter of Prague. The Pinkas Synagogue in Josefov is an unassuming pale, sand-colored building with a slightly sunken entrance. Inside is a small alter and little else. The floor is bare; there are no places for worshipers to sit. The synagogue is little more than walls. And on the walls inscribed in extremely small print are the names of the 77,297 Jewish citizens of Bohemia and Moravia who died in the Holocaust.
+ + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/05/inside-and-out" title="Inside and Out"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/krumlovcastleatnight.jpg" alt="Inside and Out" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/05/inside-and-out" class="u-url" title="Inside and Out">Inside and Out</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-05-25T17:45:12">May <span>25, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Cesky Krumlov</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/czech-republic/" title="travel writing from Czech Republic">Czech Republic</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="48.81053057801549"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="14.317352769766009"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Chasing Egon Schiele: The attention to detail that makes the difference between a building and work of art was everywhere in Cesky Krumlov, from the delicate pink and red complements of a fine dovetailed corner, to the white plaster and oak beams of the Egon Schiele museum, which, despite geometric differences, looked not unlike the Globe Theatre in London. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/05/king-carrot-flowers-part-two" title="The King of Carrot Flowers Part Two"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/sloveniachurch.jpg" alt="The King of Carrot Flowers Part Two" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/05/king-carrot-flowers-part-two" class="u-url" title="The King of Carrot Flowers Part Two">The King of Carrot Flowers Part Two</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-05-22T20:44:33">May <span>22, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Bled</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/slovenia/" title="travel writing from Slovenia">Slovenia</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="46.365209982615575"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="14.109942911091283"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + There is a roughly 200km loop of road that leads northwest out of Bled, through a pass in the Julian Alps and then down the other side, twisting and winding back toward Bled by way of craggy canyons, small hamlets and crystalline rivers. We set out sometime after breakfast. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/05/ghost" title="Ghost"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/trogirnight.jpg" alt="Ghost" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/05/ghost" class="u-url" title="Ghost">Ghost</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-05-19T19:37:07">May <span>19, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Ljubljana</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/slovenia/" title="travel writing from Slovenia">Slovenia</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="46.05085985632457"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="14.50674891269926"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Like Dubrovnik, Trogir is a walled city of roughly Venetian vintage, but Trogir's wall has largely crumbled away or been removed. Still, it has the gorgeous narrow cobblestone streets, arched doorways and towering forts that give all Dalmatian towns their Rapunzel-like fairly tale quality. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/05/feel-good-lost" title="Feel Good Lost"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/dubrovnik.jpg" alt="Feel Good Lost" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/05/feel-good-lost" class="u-url" title="Feel Good Lost">Feel Good Lost</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-05-18T00:38:37">May <span>18, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Dubrovnik</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/croatia/" title="travel writing from Croatia">Croatia</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="42.64133838429178"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="18.10905217872305"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Dubrovnik, Croatia was heavily shelled during the Bosnian conflict and roughly 65 percent of its buildings were hit, built for the most part you'd never know it. Most of the buildings date from about 1468, though some were destroyed in the great earthquake of 1667, still, by and large, the city looks as it did in the fifteenth century. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/05/blue-milk" title="Blue Milk"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/plitvice.jpg" alt="Blue Milk" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/05/blue-milk" class="u-url" title="Blue Milk">Blue Milk</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-05-16T00:32:27">May <span>16, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Dubrovnik</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/croatia/" title="travel writing from Croatia">Croatia</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="42.64133838429178"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="18.10905217872305"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + It's hard to understand, standing on the banks of such crystalline, cerulean lakes, whose dazzling colors come from the mineral rich silt runoff of glaciers, that the largest European conflict since world war two began here, at Like Plitvice Croatia. But indeed this is where the first shots were fired on Easter Sunday in 1991 and the first casualty was a park policeman. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/05/refracted-light-and-grace" title="Refracted Light and Grace"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/castlehillbuda.jpg" alt="Refracted Light and Grace" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/05/refracted-light-and-grace" class="u-url" title="Refracted Light and Grace">Refracted Light and Grace</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-05-11T00:26:59">May <span>11, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Budapest</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/hungary/" title="travel writing from Hungary">Hungary</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="47.483800862289485"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="19.062137601106286"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Evening, after dinner, outside on the balcony, smoking cigarettes and contemplating the nightscape of Buda's Castle Hill rising up out of its own golden reflection in the shimmering Danube waters. The drone of car horns in the distance and the electric tram squealing as it pulls out of the station below on the river a boat slowly churns upstream... + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/05/london-calling" title="London Calling"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/londonthames.jpg" alt="London Calling" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/05/london-calling" class="u-url" title="London Calling">London Calling</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-05-10T00:16:42">May <span>10, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">London</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/united-kingdom/" title="travel writing from United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="51.55119204682159"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-0.1495599746495864"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + London: The British don't want me -- no money, no proof I'm leaving and no real reason for coming, good lord, I must be a vagabond, up to no good, surely. Eventually the customs agent relents and lets me in, a favor I repay by nearly burning down one of London's bigger parks. Seriously. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/11/riots-iraqi-restaurants-goodbye-seine" title="Riots, Iraqi Restaurants, Goodbye Seine"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/seinetower.jpg" alt="Riots, Iraqi Restaurants, Goodbye Seine" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/11/riots-iraqi-restaurants-goodbye-seine" class="u-url" title="Riots, Iraqi Restaurants, Goodbye Seine">Riots, Iraqi Restaurants, Goodbye Seine</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-11-08T18:30:13">November <span>8, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Paris</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/france/" title="travel writing from France">France</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="48.863514907961644"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="2.3610734936288558"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Well it's my last night here in Paris and I've chosen to return to the best restaurant we've been to so far, an Iraqi restaurant in a Marais. I am using all my willpower right now to avoid having a political outburst re the quality of Iraqi food versus the intelligence of George Bush etc etc. I'm traveling; I don't want to get into politics except to say that my dislike for the current El Presidente was no small factor in my decision to go abroad. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/11/bury-your-dead" title="Bury Your Dead"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/pariscatacombs.jpg" alt="Bury Your Dead" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/11/bury-your-dead" class="u-url" title="Bury Your Dead">Bury Your Dead</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-11-06T18:28:52">November <span>6, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Paris</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/france/" title="travel writing from France">France</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="48.88623656623962"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="2.343757152231122"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + I would like to say that the catacombs of Paris had some spectacular effect on me seeing that I strolled through human remains, skulls and femurs mainly, "decoratively arranged," but the truth is, after you get over the initial shock of seeing a skull, well, it turns out you can get adjusted to just about anything. Maybe that in and off itself is the scary part. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/11/houses-we-live" title="The Houses We Live In"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/pariscityscape.jpg" alt="The Houses We Live In" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/11/houses-we-live" class="u-url" title="The Houses We Live In">The Houses We Live In</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-11-01T10:40:00">November <span>1, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Paris</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/france/" title="travel writing from France">France</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="48.86409366210158"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="2.3615670200875383"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + I've been thinking the last couple of days about something Bill's dad said to me before I left. I'm paraphrasing here since I don't remember the exact phrasing he used, but something to the effect of "people are essentially the same everywhere, they just build their houses differently." Indeed, Parisian architecture is completely unlike anything in America. Perhaps more than any other single element, architecture reflects culture and the ideas of the people that make up culture. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/10/sainte-chapelle" title="Sainte Chapelle"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/saintechapelle.jpg" alt="Sainte Chapelle" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/10/sainte-chapelle" class="u-url" title="Sainte Chapelle">Sainte Chapelle</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-10-28T18:25:56">October <span>28, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Paris</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/france/" title="travel writing from France">France</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="48.85556694853056"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="2.3452591892792514"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Sainte Chapelle was interesting to see after the modern, conceptual art stuff at the Pompidou, rather than simple stained glass, Sainte Chapelle felt quite conceptual. In a sense the entire Bible (i.e. all history from that perspective) is unfolding simultaneously, quite a so-called post-modern idea if you think about it. And yet it was conceived and executed over 800 years ago. Kind of kicks a lot pretentious modern art in its collective ass. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/10/living-railway-car" title="Living in a Railway Car"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/sacrecoeur.jpg" alt="Living in a Railway Car" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/10/living-railway-car" class="u-url" title="Living in a Railway Car">Living in a Railway Car</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-10-24T11:20:54">October <span>24, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Paris</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/france/" title="travel writing from France">France</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="48.86416424141684"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="2.3617815968086964"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + This French apartment is more like a railway sleeper car than apartment proper. Maybe fifteen feet long and only three feet wide at the ceiling. More like five feet wide at the floor, but, because it's an attic, the outer wall slopes in and you lose two feet by the time you get to the ceiling. 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class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2011/06/language-cities" title="The Language of Cities"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2011/stchappelle.jpg" alt="The Language of Cities" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2011/06/language-cities" class="u-url" title="The Language of Cities">The Language of Cities</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2011-06-04T00:05:00">June <span>4, 2011</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Paris</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/france/" title="travel writing from France">France</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="48.85846248575372"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="2.3375712584730373"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Paris is angry. Cities can get angry. This isn't the first time it's happened to me. New York threw me out once. Los Angeles and I left on mutually hostile terms, though we've since made up. Cities have personalities just like people, and to really be part of a city your personalities have to mesh, you have to find each other on your own terms everyday. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2011/05/from-here-we-go-sublime" title="From Here We Go Sublime"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2011/iceland.jpg" alt="From Here We Go Sublime" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2011/05/from-here-we-go-sublime" class="u-url" title="From Here We Go Sublime">From Here We Go Sublime</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2011-05-29T02:35:00">May <span>29, 2011</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Paris</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/france/" title="travel writing from France">France</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="48.861291192122714"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="2.3879055928465687"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Just arrived Dulles-Reykjavik-Paris, 26-hour trip, no sleep. I see things. I see a grizzly looking Spaniard selling old railway lanterns at the flea market, I see muslim men playing basketball in skull caps, I see a Michael Faraday experiment with bulbs and wires enclosed in glass that turns out to be just an elevator. I see a stout Frenchwoman closing the gates of Pere Lachaise, no more dead, we've had enough of you. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/06/cadenza" title="Cadenza"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/parisglow.jpg" alt="Cadenza" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/06/cadenza" class="u-url" title="Cadenza">Cadenza</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-06-06T11:01:26">June <span>6, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Paris</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/france/" title="travel writing from France">France</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="48.86345844378468"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="2.3610842224649087"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Paris - Outside it's raining. Beads of water form on the window in front of me. The glow of the unseen sun is fading behind midnight blue clouds and darkening sky. An old man in a butcher apron selling oysters under an awning smokes a cigarette and watches the mothers and children walking home with bags of groceries. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/11/riots-iraqi-restaurants-goodbye-seine" title="Riots, Iraqi Restaurants, Goodbye Seine"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/seinetower.jpg" alt="Riots, Iraqi Restaurants, Goodbye Seine" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/11/riots-iraqi-restaurants-goodbye-seine" class="u-url" title="Riots, Iraqi Restaurants, Goodbye Seine">Riots, Iraqi Restaurants, Goodbye Seine</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-11-08T18:30:13">November <span>8, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Paris</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/france/" title="travel writing from France">France</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="48.863514907961644"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="2.3610734936288558"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Well it's my last night here in Paris and I've chosen to return to the best restaurant we've been to so far, an Iraqi restaurant in a Marais. I am using all my willpower right now to avoid having a political outburst re the quality of Iraqi food versus the intelligence of George Bush etc etc. I'm traveling; I don't want to get into politics except to say that my dislike for the current El Presidente was no small factor in my decision to go abroad. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/11/bury-your-dead" title="Bury Your Dead"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/pariscatacombs.jpg" alt="Bury Your Dead" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/11/bury-your-dead" class="u-url" title="Bury Your Dead">Bury Your Dead</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-11-06T18:28:52">November <span>6, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Paris</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/france/" title="travel writing from France">France</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="48.88623656623962"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="2.343757152231122"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + I would like to say that the catacombs of Paris had some spectacular effect on me seeing that I strolled through human remains, skulls and femurs mainly, "decoratively arranged," but the truth is, after you get over the initial shock of seeing a skull, well, it turns out you can get adjusted to just about anything. Maybe that in and off itself is the scary part. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/11/houses-we-live" title="The Houses We Live In"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/pariscityscape.jpg" alt="The Houses We Live In" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/11/houses-we-live" class="u-url" title="The Houses We Live In">The Houses We Live In</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-11-01T10:40:00">November <span>1, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Paris</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/france/" title="travel writing from France">France</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="48.86409366210158"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="2.3615670200875383"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + I've been thinking the last couple of days about something Bill's dad said to me before I left. I'm paraphrasing here since I don't remember the exact phrasing he used, but something to the effect of "people are essentially the same everywhere, they just build their houses differently." Indeed, Parisian architecture is completely unlike anything in America. Perhaps more than any other single element, architecture reflects culture and the ideas of the people that make up culture. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/10/sainte-chapelle" title="Sainte Chapelle"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/saintechapelle.jpg" alt="Sainte Chapelle" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/10/sainte-chapelle" class="u-url" title="Sainte Chapelle">Sainte Chapelle</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-10-28T18:25:56">October <span>28, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Paris</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/france/" title="travel writing from France">France</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="48.85556694853056"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="2.3452591892792514"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Sainte Chapelle was interesting to see after the modern, conceptual art stuff at the Pompidou, rather than simple stained glass, Sainte Chapelle felt quite conceptual. In a sense the entire Bible (i.e. all history from that perspective) is unfolding simultaneously, quite a so-called post-modern idea if you think about it. And yet it was conceived and executed over 800 years ago. Kind of kicks a lot pretentious modern art in its collective ass. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/10/living-railway-car" title="Living in a Railway Car"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/sacrecoeur.jpg" alt="Living in a Railway Car" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/10/living-railway-car" class="u-url" title="Living in a Railway Car">Living in a Railway Car</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-10-24T11:20:54">October <span>24, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Paris</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/france/" title="travel writing from France">France</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="48.86416424141684"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="2.3617815968086964"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + This French apartment is more like a railway sleeper car than apartment proper. Maybe fifteen feet long and only three feet wide at the ceiling. More like five feet wide at the floor, but, because it's an attic, the outer wall slopes in and you lose two feet by the time you get to the ceiling. 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<span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Paris is angry. Cities can get angry. This isn't the first time it's happened to me. New York threw me out once. Los Angeles and I left on mutually hostile terms, though we've since made up. Cities have personalities just like people, and to really be part of a city your personalities have to mesh, you have to find each other on your own terms everyday. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2011/05/from-here-we-go-sublime" title="From Here We Go Sublime"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2011/iceland.jpg" alt="From Here We Go Sublime" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2011/05/from-here-we-go-sublime" class="u-url" title="From Here We Go Sublime">From Here We Go Sublime</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2011-05-29T02:35:00">May <span>29, 2011</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Paris</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/france/" title="travel writing from France">France</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="48.861291192122714"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="2.3879055928465687"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Just arrived Dulles-Reykjavik-Paris, 26-hour trip, no sleep. I see things. I see a grizzly looking Spaniard selling old railway lanterns at the flea market, I see muslim men playing basketball in skull caps, I see a Michael Faraday experiment with bulbs and wires enclosed in glass that turns out to be just an elevator. I see a stout Frenchwoman closing the gates of Pere Lachaise, no more dead, we've had enough of you. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/06/cadenza" title="Cadenza"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/parisglow.jpg" alt="Cadenza" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/06/cadenza" class="u-url" title="Cadenza">Cadenza</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-06-06T11:01:26">June <span>6, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Paris</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/france/" title="travel writing from France">France</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="48.86345844378468"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="2.3610842224649087"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Paris - Outside it's raining. Beads of water form on the window in front of me. The glow of the unseen sun is fading behind midnight blue clouds and darkening sky. An old man in a butcher apron selling oysters under an awning smokes a cigarette and watches the mothers and children walking home with bags of groceries. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/11/riots-iraqi-restaurants-goodbye-seine" title="Riots, Iraqi Restaurants, Goodbye Seine"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/seinetower.jpg" alt="Riots, Iraqi Restaurants, Goodbye Seine" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/11/riots-iraqi-restaurants-goodbye-seine" class="u-url" title="Riots, Iraqi Restaurants, Goodbye Seine">Riots, Iraqi Restaurants, Goodbye Seine</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-11-08T18:30:13">November <span>8, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Paris</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/france/" title="travel writing from France">France</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="48.863514907961644"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="2.3610734936288558"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Well it's my last night here in Paris and I've chosen to return to the best restaurant we've been to so far, an Iraqi restaurant in a Marais. I am using all my willpower right now to avoid having a political outburst re the quality of Iraqi food versus the intelligence of George Bush etc etc. I'm traveling; I don't want to get into politics except to say that my dislike for the current El Presidente was no small factor in my decision to go abroad. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/11/bury-your-dead" title="Bury Your Dead"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/pariscatacombs.jpg" alt="Bury Your Dead" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/11/bury-your-dead" class="u-url" title="Bury Your Dead">Bury Your Dead</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-11-06T18:28:52">November <span>6, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Paris</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/france/" title="travel writing from France">France</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="48.88623656623962"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="2.343757152231122"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + I would like to say that the catacombs of Paris had some spectacular effect on me seeing that I strolled through human remains, skulls and femurs mainly, "decoratively arranged," but the truth is, after you get over the initial shock of seeing a skull, well, it turns out you can get adjusted to just about anything. Maybe that in and off itself is the scary part. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/11/houses-we-live" title="The Houses We Live In"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/pariscityscape.jpg" alt="The Houses We Live In" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/11/houses-we-live" class="u-url" title="The Houses We Live In">The Houses We Live In</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-11-01T10:40:00">November <span>1, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Paris</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/france/" title="travel writing from France">France</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="48.86409366210158"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="2.3615670200875383"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + I've been thinking the last couple of days about something Bill's dad said to me before I left. I'm paraphrasing here since I don't remember the exact phrasing he used, but something to the effect of "people are essentially the same everywhere, they just build their houses differently." Indeed, Parisian architecture is completely unlike anything in America. Perhaps more than any other single element, architecture reflects culture and the ideas of the people that make up culture. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/10/sainte-chapelle" title="Sainte Chapelle"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/saintechapelle.jpg" alt="Sainte Chapelle" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/10/sainte-chapelle" class="u-url" title="Sainte Chapelle">Sainte Chapelle</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-10-28T18:25:56">October <span>28, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Paris</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/france/" title="travel writing from France">France</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="48.85556694853056"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="2.3452591892792514"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Sainte Chapelle was interesting to see after the modern, conceptual art stuff at the Pompidou, rather than simple stained glass, Sainte Chapelle felt quite conceptual. In a sense the entire Bible (i.e. all history from that perspective) is unfolding simultaneously, quite a so-called post-modern idea if you think about it. And yet it was conceived and executed over 800 years ago. Kind of kicks a lot pretentious modern art in its collective ass. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/10/living-railway-car" title="Living in a Railway Car"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/sacrecoeur.jpg" alt="Living in a Railway Car" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/10/living-railway-car" class="u-url" title="Living in a Railway Car">Living in a Railway Car</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-10-24T11:20:54">October <span>24, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Paris</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/france/" title="travel writing from France">France</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="48.86416424141684"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="2.3617815968086964"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + This French apartment is more like a railway sleeper car than apartment proper. Maybe fifteen feet long and only three feet wide at the ceiling. More like five feet wide at the floor, but, because it's an attic, the outer wall slopes in and you lose two feet by the time you get to the ceiling. 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itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-84.86566792845446"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The world of oystermen and local fishing industry is doomed. Even the people resisting the transition know they’re no longer fighting for their way of life. They’re just fighting to keep the thinnest resemblance of what they’ve always known around until they leave this world. They’re fighting to keep from having to watch the death of everything they know. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2013/05/all-the-pretty-beaches" title="All the Pretty Beaches"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2013/stgeorgeisland_1.jpg" alt="All the Pretty Beaches" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2013/05/all-the-pretty-beaches" class="u-url" title="All the Pretty Beaches">All the Pretty Beaches</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2013-05-26T22:43:23">May <span>26, 2013</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">St. George Island</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Florida</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="29.65981806259071"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-84.87047444700387"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + St. George is just off the Gulf Coast of northwest Florida, only about 7 hours from where I live. There are better places if you're looking to dive or snorkel. Ditto if it's nightlife you're after. But if you're looking for a seemingly endless amount of gorgeous white sand beaches you'll share with only a few migratory birds, St. George is the place to be. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2013/05/consider-the-apalachicola-oyster" title="Consider the Apalachicola Oyster"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2013/considertheoyster.jpg" alt="Consider the Apalachicola Oyster" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2013/05/consider-the-apalachicola-oyster" class="u-url" title="Consider the Apalachicola Oyster">Consider the Apalachicola Oyster</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2013-05-22T19:43:23">May <span>22, 2013</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Apalachicola</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Florida</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="29.72867205648089"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-84.98378973124662"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + If you know the name Apalachicola at all it’s likely because of its eponymous oysters. Very few things, let alone culinary things, are as attached to place as oysters. In fact, once you get beyond the Rockefeller, ordering “oysters” is akin to walking in a bar and ordering “a beer.” But unlike beer, oysters don’t have brands, they have places — Pemaquid, Wellfleet, Blue Point, Apalachicola. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2012/05/things-behind-sun" title="Things Behind the Sun"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2012/tucsonblur.jpg" alt="Things Behind the Sun" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2012/05/things-behind-sun" class="u-url" title="Things Behind the Sun">Things Behind the Sun</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2012-05-20T22:47:00">May <span>20, 2012</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Athens</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Georgia</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.95674257719642"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-83.37592612645985"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + My grandparents left the home they lived in for 60 years today. I don't know how much of my life was spent in that house, probably well over a year if you added up all the holidays and family gatherings. And now I'm thousands of miles away and someone is clearing out the house. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2012/03/street-food-athens-georgia" title="Street Food in Athens Georgia"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2012/foodcart1.jpg" alt="Street Food in Athens Georgia" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2012/03/street-food-athens-georgia" class="u-url" title="Street Food in Athens Georgia">Street Food in Athens Georgia</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2012-03-31T21:56:00">March <span>31, 2012</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Athens</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Georgia</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.959861666904274"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-83.37601195713451"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Cheap food, made fresh, in front of you. Served hot, wrapped in newspaper. Street food is the people's food, it removes the mystery of the kitchen, lays the process bare. It's also the staple diet of people around the world. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2011/10/worst-place-on-earth" title="The Worst Place on Earth"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2011/gilitrawangan.jpg" alt="The Worst Place on Earth" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2011/10/worst-place-on-earth" class="u-url" title="The Worst Place on Earth">The Worst Place on Earth</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2011-10-17T22:33:00">October <span>17, 2011</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Gili Trawangan</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/indonesia/" title="travel writing from Indonesia">Indonesia</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="-8.348272379374615"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="116.0405144294601"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + They aren't really the worst place on Earth (everyone knows that's Yuma, AZ), but the Gili Islands would top my list of places you should never go to. In the end they're not even a real place, just a collection of paradise fantasies culled from decades of hippie travelers, scuba divers, honeymooners, and the rich, lost children of the West. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2011/06/best-snorkeling-world" title="The Best Snorkeling in the World"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2011/scuba_nusa_lembongan_ccFlickr.jpg" alt="The Best Snorkeling in the World" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2011/06/best-snorkeling-world" class="u-url" title="The Best Snorkeling in the World">The Best Snorkeling in the World</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2011-06-23T12:54:00">June <span>23, 2011</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Nusa Lembongan, Bali</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/indonesia/" title="travel writing from Indonesia">Indonesia</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="-8.667603048330891"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="115.44832559441208"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Drift snorkeling is like watching fish float by the window of an underwater train. And Indonesia has more marine life than anywhere I've ever been. Fish I have previously seen perhaps two or three at a time are swimming in massive schools. The blue depths are filled with dozens of Moorish Idols, schools of deep purple tangs, so dark they look black until you get up close, parrotfish in clusters, munching on the coral, bright, powder blue tangs, yellow-masked angelfish, countless butterfly fish, wrasses, triggerfish, pufferfish and even bright blue starfish that crawl slowly over the reef. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2011/06/temple-ceremony-ubud" title="The Balinese Temple Ceremony"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2011/ubud-ceremony.jpg" alt="The Balinese Temple Ceremony" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2011/06/temple-ceremony-ubud" class="u-url" title="The Balinese Temple Ceremony">The Balinese Temple Ceremony</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2011-06-19T10:25:00">June <span>19, 2011</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Ubud, Bali</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/indonesia/" title="travel writing from Indonesia">Indonesia</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="-8.480557093648551"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="115.26582809308304"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + While Balinese temples look partly like Hindu temples in India, there are other elements that come from older religions. Bali is what happens when Hindu beliefs collide with animism. The Balinese seem to embrace the basic tenants of traditional Hinduism, but then add plenty of their own animist flourishes to the mix -- like frequent and elaborate temple ceremonies. We were lucky enough to be invited to a temple ceremony in Tegallantang, Bali. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2011/06/motor-city-burning" title="Motor City is Burning"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2011/ricepaddies-h.jpg" alt="Motor City is Burning" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2011/06/motor-city-burning" class="u-url" title="Motor City is Burning">Motor City is Burning</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2011-06-16T20:05:00">June <span>16, 2011</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Ubud, Bali</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/indonesia/" title="travel writing from Indonesia">Indonesia</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="-8.512942106321157"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="115.26119323594054"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Awesome as it was to be back on the Asian version of a motorbike, it wasn't quite the relaxing riding I did in Laos and elsewhere. You can never recapture the magic, and I wasn't trying.... Okay, maybe I was, but it didn't work. regrettably Honda seems to have phased out the Dream in the last five years, replacing it with something called the Nitro, which just doesn't have the same ring to it. But the bike is irrelevant, was always irrelevant. I missed my friends. It just wasn't the same by myself. Debi, Matt, where are you? There are roads to be ridden, locals with ten people on a bike to be humbled by. Six fingered men to be seen, by some. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2011/06/cooking-rome" title="Cooking in Rome"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2011/rome-h.jpg" alt="Cooking in Rome" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2011/06/cooking-rome" class="u-url" title="Cooking in Rome">Cooking in Rome</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2011-06-14T17:18:00">June <span>14, 2011</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Rome</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/italy/" title="travel writing from Italy">Italy</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="41.865455693141165"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="12.461011283881284"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + In the end Italy and I didn't really get along, but the food redeemed it for me. The restaurants are good, but if you really want to experience the glory of Italian food you need to head to the market, grab some utterly amazing raw ingredients and whip up something yourself. This is what food is supposed to be, simple, fresh and great. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2011/06/natural-science" title="Natural Science"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2011/florenceh.jpg" alt="Natural Science" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2011/06/natural-science" class="u-url" title="Natural Science">Natural Science</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2011-06-10T20:54:00">June <span>10, 2011</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Firenze (Florence)</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/italy/" title="travel writing from Italy">Italy</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="43.76987122050593"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="11.254618042254865"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + There's no way around it; Florence is crowded. It may well be that Naples is the only Italian city that isn't overrun with tourists in the summer, but after three days of hardly seeing another traveler, I wasn't prepared for the crowds. Luckily it isn't hard to avoid the tourist hordes, just get up early and then when everyone else is starting to stir, head for obscure museums like La Specola, part of the Museo di Storia Naturale di Firenze. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2011/06/forever-today" title="Forever Today"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2011/pompeiih.jpg" alt="Forever Today" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2011/06/forever-today" class="u-url" title="Forever Today">Forever Today</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2011-06-07T17:50:00">June <span>7, 2011</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Pompeii</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/italy/" title="travel writing from Italy">Italy</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="40.75211491821789"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="14.480285518306573"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Pompeii feels both very old and not that different from the modern cities that surround it now. The gap between then and now feels small because when you wander around places like Pompeii you realize that human beings have changed very little over vast expanses of time. Pompeii had the same elements of cities today, a central square, markets, temples, government offices, even fast food. Not much has changed over the years, though togas aren’t much in vogue these days. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2011/06/new-pollution" title="The New Pollution"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2011/naplesh.jpg" alt="The New Pollution" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2011/06/new-pollution" class="u-url" title="The New Pollution">The New Pollution</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2011-06-06T08:17:00">June <span>6, 2011</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Napoli (Naples)</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/italy/" title="travel writing from Italy">Italy</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="40.84484016249223"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="14.255757801685807"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Naples Italy is a big, crowded, graffiti-filled city. It's an intimidating place that is by turns a bit like Philadelphia, a bit Mumbai, a bit some post-apocalyptic video game and, in the end, something else entirely. Still, given the tourist epidemic that sweeps Italy every summer, Naples is a place worth appreciating for what it is not, even if what is isn't, perhaps, enough to ever bring you back. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2011/06/language-cities" title="The Language of Cities"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2011/stchappelle.jpg" alt="The Language of Cities" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2011/06/language-cities" class="u-url" title="The Language of Cities">The Language of Cities</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2011-06-04T00:05:00">June <span>4, 2011</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Paris</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/france/" title="travel writing from France">France</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="48.85846248575372"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="2.3375712584730373"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Paris is angry. Cities can get angry. This isn't the first time it's happened to me. New York threw me out once. Los Angeles and I left on mutually hostile terms, though we've since made up. Cities have personalities just like people, and to really be part of a city your personalities have to mesh, you have to find each other on your own terms everyday. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2011/05/from-here-we-go-sublime" title="From Here We Go Sublime"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2011/iceland.jpg" alt="From Here We Go Sublime" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2011/05/from-here-we-go-sublime" class="u-url" title="From Here We Go Sublime">From Here We Go Sublime</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2011-05-29T02:35:00">May <span>29, 2011</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Paris</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/france/" title="travel writing from France">France</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="48.861291192122714"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="2.3879055928465687"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Just arrived Dulles-Reykjavik-Paris, 26-hour trip, no sleep. I see things. I see a grizzly looking Spaniard selling old railway lanterns at the flea market, I see muslim men playing basketball in skull caps, I see a Michael Faraday experiment with bulbs and wires enclosed in glass that turns out to be just an elevator. I see a stout Frenchwoman closing the gates of Pere Lachaise, no more dead, we've had enough of you. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2011/03/we-used-wait-it" title="We Used to Wait For It"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2011/losangeles11h.jpg" alt="We Used to Wait For It" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2011/03/we-used-wait-it" class="u-url" title="We Used to Wait For It">We Used to Wait For It</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2011-03-28T21:50:00">March <span>28, 2011</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Los Angeles</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">California</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="34.04477171337467"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-118.25204621066614"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + When we first came here, there was nothing. Downtown Los Angeles was an empty husk of a place fifteen years ago. Now it's reborn, alive and kicking. Yet there is something in the older buildings, something in the old walls, something lost in the bricks, something in the concrete, the marble. Something you don’t find anymore. Something we need to find again. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2011/01/world-outside" title="The World Outside"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2011/snowh.jpg" alt="The World Outside" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2011/01/world-outside" class="u-url" title="The World Outside">The World Outside</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2011-01-26T11:56:00">January <span>26, 2011</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Athens</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Georgia</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.96016249314553"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-83.4028816107045"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The world outside the house is blanketed in snow, a monochrome of white interrupted only by the dark, wet trunks of trees, the red brick of chimneys, the occasional green of shrubs poking through. The roads are unbroken expanses of smooth white, no one is out yet, no footprints track their way through the snowy sidewalk. The world outside is the same as it was last night, before the snow began, and yet, it feels totally different. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2011/01/charleston-a-z" title="Charleston A-Z"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2011/charleston-h_1.jpg" alt="Charleston A-Z" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2011/01/charleston-a-z" class="u-url" title="Charleston A-Z">Charleston A-Z</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2011-01-18T15:29:00">January <span>18, 2011</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Charleston</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">South Carolina</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="32.78595765272612"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-79.9366307147337"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Charleston alphabetically. For example, <strong>Q</strong> is for quiet, Charleston has a lot of it. Just head down to the Battery area, walk through the park and starting walking down the side streets. Take one of the many alleys and walkways that weave between the massive, stately houses. Get lost. It doesn't take much to find a quiet place of your own. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/08/dinosaur-national-monument-part-two-down-river" title="Dinosaur National Monument, Part Two: Down the River"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/lodorecanyonh.jpg" alt="Dinosaur National Monument, Part Two: Down the River" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/08/dinosaur-national-monument-part-two-down-river" class="u-url" title="Dinosaur National Monument, Part Two: Down the River">Dinosaur National Monument, Part Two: Down the River</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-08-02T09:00:00">August <span>2, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Dinosaur National Monument</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Colorado</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="40.457462390627"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-109.2584323730928"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + This is the only real way to see Dinosaur National Monument — you must journey down the river. There are two major rivers running through Dinosaur, the Yampa, which carves through Yampa Canyon, and the Green, which cuts through Lodore. <a href="http://www.adventureboundusa.com/" title="Adventure Bound Rafting">Adventure Bound Rafting</a> runs some of the best whitewater rafting trips in Colorado and I was lucky enough to go down the Green River with them, through the majestic Lodore Canyon. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/07/dinosaur-national-monument-part-one-echo-park" title="Dinosaur National Monument, Part One: Echo Park"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/dinosaurh.jpg" alt="Dinosaur National Monument, Part One: Echo Park" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/07/dinosaur-national-monument-part-one-echo-park" class="u-url" title="Dinosaur National Monument, Part One: Echo Park">Dinosaur National Monument, Part One: Echo Park</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-07-28T17:00:00">July <span>28, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Dinosaur National Monument</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Colorado</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="40.52063402652926"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-108.99388073317648"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Dinosaur National Monument was poorly named. The best parts of it are not the fossils in the quarry (which is closed for 2010 anyway) but the canyon country — some of the best, most remote canyon country you'll find in this part of the world. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/07/endless-crowds-yellowstone" title="The Endless Crowds of Yellowstone"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/yellowstoneh.jpg" alt="The Endless Crowds of Yellowstone" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/07/endless-crowds-yellowstone" class="u-url" title="The Endless Crowds of Yellowstone">The Endless Crowds of Yellowstone</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-07-25T14:00:00">July <span>25, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Yellowstone National Park</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Wyoming</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="44.46180292448713"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-110.82196979172171"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + There is wilderness in Yellowstone, even if it's just inches from the boardwalks that transport thousands around the geothermal pools. It may not be wilderness on a grand scale — the sweeping mountain peaks or wild rivers of other parks — but in some ways that makes it more enticing. As one Ranger told me, Yellowstone isn't about the big picture, the grand scenery, it's about the tiny details within each pool. To really see Yellowstone, he said, you have to take your time, move slowly and look closely. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/07/backpacking-grand-tetons" title="Backpacking in the Grand Tetons"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/grandtetonsh.jpg" alt="Backpacking in the Grand Tetons" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/07/backpacking-grand-tetons" class="u-url" title="Backpacking in the Grand Tetons">Backpacking in the Grand Tetons</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-07-22T17:00:00">July <span>22, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Grand Teton National Park</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Wyoming</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="43.79315431684632"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-110.79651831037907"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Hiking into the wilderness empties your mind. You fall into the silence of the mountains and you can relax in a way that's very difficult to do in the midst of civilization. The white noise that surrounds us in our everyday lives, that noise we don't even notice as it adds thin layers of stress that build up over days, weeks, years, does not seem capable of following us into the mountains. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/07/great-sand-dunes-national-park" title="Great Sand Dunes National Park"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/greatsanddunesh_4.jpg" alt="Great Sand Dunes National Park" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/07/great-sand-dunes-national-park" class="u-url" title="Great Sand Dunes National Park">Great Sand Dunes National Park</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-07-17T09:00:00">July <span>17, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Great Sand Dunes National Park</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Colorado</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="37.72673718028319"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-105.55097578487117"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Something about the desert inspires me to get up early and watch the sunrise. The cool mornings seem worth getting up for out here in the high plains of Colorado, especially when there's the chance to watch the sunrise from the largest sand dunes in North America, here in Great Sand Dune National Park. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/07/comanche-national-grasslands" title="Comanche National Grasslands"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/comanchenationalgrasslands.jpg" alt="Comanche National Grasslands" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/07/comanche-national-grasslands" class="u-url" title="Comanche National Grasslands">Comanche National Grasslands</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-07-16T13:00:00">July <span>16, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Comanche National Grasslands</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Colorado</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="37.14748995999048"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-103.0095720147769"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + To say the Comanche National Grasslands is off the grid would be an understatement. With the exception of Highway 50 in Nevada, I've never driven through such isolation and vast openness anywhere in the world. And it's easy to get lost. 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class="p-region">Delhi</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/india/" title="travel writing from India">India</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="28.6418241967323"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="77.21092699883451"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + I have taken almost 750 photos and traveled nearly 4000 km (2500 miles) in India, the vast majority of it by train. I have seen everything from depressing squalor to majestic palaces and yet I still feel as if I have hardly scratched the surface. I can't think of another and certainly have never been to a country with the kind of geographic and ethnic diversity of India. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/12/taj-express" title="The Taj Express"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/tajmahal.jpg" alt="The Taj Express" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/12/taj-express" class="u-url" title="The Taj Express">The Taj Express</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-12-09T17:49:40">December <span>9, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Agra</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/india/" title="travel writing from India">India</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="27.17280401257652"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="78.04176806317186"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The Taj Mahal is one of the Seven Wonders of the World, and, given the level of hype I was fully prepared to be underwhelmed, but I was wrong. I have never in my life seen anything so extravagant, elegant and colossal. The Taj Mahal seems mythically, spiritually, as well as architecturally, to have risen from nowhere, without equal or context. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/12/camel-no-name" title="On a Camel With No Name"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/cameltrek.jpg" alt="On a Camel With No Name" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/12/camel-no-name" class="u-url" title="On a Camel With No Name">On a Camel With No Name</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-12-05T22:46:54">December <span>5, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Thar Desert</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/india/" title="travel writing from India">India</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="27.004078760567136"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="70.89065550770995"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The Thar Desert is a bewitching if stark place. It reminded me of areas of the Great Basin between Las Vegas and St. George, Utah. Twigging mesquite-like trees, bluish gray bushes resembling creosote, a very large bush that resembled a Palo Verde tree and grew in impenetrable clumps, and, strangely, only one species of cactus and not a whole lot of them. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/12/majestic-fort" title="The Majestic Fort"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/jodhpurfort.jpg" alt="The Majestic Fort" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/12/majestic-fort" class="u-url" title="The Majestic Fort">The Majestic Fort</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-12-02T17:40:02">December <span>2, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Jodhpur</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/india/" title="travel writing from India">India</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="26.29741635354351"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="73.01766871389577"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The next day I hopped in a rickshaw and headed up to tour Meherangarh, or the Majestic Fort as it's known in English. As its English name indicates, it is indeed perched majestically atop the only hill around, and seems not so much built on a hill as to have naturally risen out the very rocks that form the mesa on which it rests. The outer wall encloses some of the sturdiest and most impressive ramparts I've seen in India or anywhere else. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/11/around-udaipur" title="Around Udaipur"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/shiplogram.jpg" alt="Around Udaipur" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/11/around-udaipur" class="u-url" title="Around Udaipur">Around Udaipur</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-11-30T19:05:47">November <span>30, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Udiapur</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/india/" title="travel writing from India">India</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="24.667610368715458"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="73.78486632273662"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Just out of Udaipur is a government sponsored "artist colony" for various cultures from the five nearby states, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Karnataka, Goa and Madhya Pradesh. On one hand Shilpogram is a wonderful idea on the part of the government, but on the other hand the "artists colony" is slightly creepy. Amidst displays of typical tribal life there were artists and craftsmen and women hawking their wares along with dancers and musicians performing traditional songs. The whole thing had the feel of a living museum, or, for the creepy angle — human zoo. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/11/monsoon-palace" title="The Monsoon Palace"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/monsoonpalace.jpg" alt="The Monsoon Palace" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/11/monsoon-palace" class="u-url" title="The Monsoon Palace">The Monsoon Palace</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-11-29T12:03:31">November <span>29, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Udiapur</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/india/" title="travel writing from India">India</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="24.66199437588058"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="73.68804930614868"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + We started out in the early evening quickly leaving behind Udaipur and its increasing urban sprawl. The road to the Monsoon Palace passes through the Sajjan Garh Nature Preserve and there was a sudden and dramatic drop in temperature, but then the road climbed out of the hollow and the temperature jumped back up to comfortable as we began to climb the mountain in a series of hairpin switchbacks. As the sun slowly slunk behind the mountain range to the west the balconies and balustrades of the Monsoon Palace took on an increasingly orange hue. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/11/city-palace" title="The City Palace"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/citypalaceudaipur.jpg" alt="The City Palace" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/11/city-palace" class="u-url" title="The City Palace">The City Palace</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-11-28T22:00:46">November <span>28, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Udiapur</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/india/" title="travel writing from India">India</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="24.591304879190837"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="73.69319914745653"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + I spent some time sitting in the inner gardens of the City Place, listening to rustling trees and the various guides bringing small groups of western and Indian tourists through the garden. In the center of the hanging gardens was the kings, extremely oversized bath, which reminded me of children's book that I once gave to a friend's daughter; it was a massively oversized and lavishly illustrated book that told the story of a king who refused to get out of the bath and instead made his ministers, advisors, cooks and even his wife conduct business by getting in the bath with him. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/11/living-airport-terminals" title="Living in Airport Terminals"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/ceilingfanindia.jpg" alt="Living in Airport Terminals" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/11/living-airport-terminals" class="u-url" title="Living in Airport Terminals">Living in Airport Terminals</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-11-27T11:56:20">November <span>27, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Ahmedabad</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/india/" title="travel writing from India">India</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="23.009675285624738"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="72.56237982693523"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Airport terminals are fast becoming my favorite part of traveling. When you stop and observe them closely as I have been forced to do on this trip, terminals are actually quite beautiful, weird places. Terminals inhabit a unique space in the architecture of humanity, perhaps the strangest of all spaces we have created; a space that is itself only a boundary that delineates the border between what was and what will be without leaving any space at all for what is. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/11/anjuna-market" title="Anjuna Market"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/anjunabeachmarket.jpg" alt="Anjuna Market" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/11/anjuna-market" class="u-url" title="Anjuna Market">Anjuna Market</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-11-24T00:58:15">November <span>24, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Anjuna Beach</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/india/" title="travel writing from India">India</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="15.58128947293701"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="73.73886107371965"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Earlier today I caught a bus up to the Anjuna Flea Market and can now tell you for certain that old hippies do not die, they simply move to Goa. The flea market was quite a spectacle; riots of color at every turn and more silver jewelry than you could shake a stick at. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/11/fish-story" title="Fish Story"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/colvabeach.jpg" alt="Fish Story" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/11/fish-story" class="u-url" title="Fish Story">Fish Story</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-11-20T00:54:46">November <span>20, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Colva Beach</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/india/" title="travel writing from India">India</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="15.277230227117771"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="73.91541479989145"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The Arabian Sea is warm and the sand sucks at your feet when you walk, schools of tiny fish dart and disappear into each receding wave. In the morning the water is nearly glassy and the beach slopes off so slowly one can walk out at least 200 meters and be only waist deep. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/11/backwaters-kerala" title="The Backwaters of Kerala"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/keralabackwater.jpg" alt="The Backwaters of Kerala" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/11/backwaters-kerala" class="u-url" title="The Backwaters of Kerala">The Backwaters of Kerala</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-11-15T00:53:50">November <span>15, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Fort Kochi</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/india/" title="travel writing from India">India</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="9.958029970964114"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="76.2533569229791"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The guide showed us Tamarind trees, coconut palms, lemon trees, vanilla vine, plantain trees and countless other shrubs and bushes whose names I have already forgotten. The most fascinating was a plant that produces a fruit something like a miniature mango that contains cyanide and which, as our guide informed us, is cultivated mainly to commit suicide with — as if it was no big deal and everyone is at least occasionally tempted to each the killer mango. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/11/vasco-de-gama-exhumed" title="Vasco de Gama Exhumed"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/fortcochin.jpg" alt="Vasco de Gama Exhumed" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/11/vasco-de-gama-exhumed" class="u-url" title="Vasco de Gama Exhumed">Vasco de Gama Exhumed</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-11-11T00:51:41">November <span>11, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Fort Kochi</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/india/" title="travel writing from India">India</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="9.964370231041409"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="76.24091147315164"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Fort Cochin is curious collision of cultures — Chinese, India and even Portuguese. Many of the obviously older buildings are of a distinctly Iberian-style — moss covered, adobe-colored arches abound. There is graveyard just down the road with a tombstone that bears the name Vasco de Gama, who died and was buried here for fourteen years before being moved to Lisbon (there we go again, more Europeans digging up and moving the dead). + </span> + </p> + </article> + </main> + <nav class="pagination"> + + + </nav> + + + <footer role="contentinfo"> + <nav class="bl"> + <ul> + <li><a href="/rss/" title="RSS feed">Subscribe</a></li> + <li><a href="https://twitter.com/luxagraf" rel="me" title="follow luxagraf on Twitter">@luxagraf</a></li> + <li><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/luxagraf" rel="me" title="luxagraf on Flickr">Flickr</a></li> + <li><a href="/contact/" title="contact luxagraf">Contact</a></li> + </ul> + </nav> + <p id="license"> + © 2003-2014 + <span class="h-card"><a class="p-name u-url" href="https://luxagraf.net/">Scott Gilbertson</a><data class="p-nickname" value="luxagraf"></data><data class="p-locality" value="Athens"></data><data class="p-region" 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class="archive"> + <h1 class="hide">Writing from India</h1> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/12/goodbye-india" title="Goodbye India"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/indiadelhi.jpg" alt="Goodbye India" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/12/goodbye-india" class="u-url" title="Goodbye India">Goodbye India</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-12-10T17:53:25">December <span>10, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Delhi</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/india/" title="travel writing from India">India</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="28.6418241967323"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="77.21092699883451"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + I have taken almost 750 photos and traveled nearly 4000 km (2500 miles) in India, the vast majority of it by train. I have seen everything from depressing squalor to majestic palaces and yet I still feel as if I have hardly scratched the surface. I can't think of another and certainly have never been to a country with the kind of geographic and ethnic diversity of India. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/12/taj-express" title="The Taj Express"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/tajmahal.jpg" alt="The Taj Express" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/12/taj-express" class="u-url" title="The Taj Express">The Taj Express</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-12-09T17:49:40">December <span>9, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Agra</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/india/" title="travel writing from India">India</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="27.17280401257652"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="78.04176806317186"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The Taj Mahal is one of the Seven Wonders of the World, and, given the level of hype I was fully prepared to be underwhelmed, but I was wrong. I have never in my life seen anything so extravagant, elegant and colossal. The Taj Mahal seems mythically, spiritually, as well as architecturally, to have risen from nowhere, without equal or context. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/12/camel-no-name" title="On a Camel With No Name"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/cameltrek.jpg" alt="On a Camel With No Name" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/12/camel-no-name" class="u-url" title="On a Camel With No Name">On a Camel With No Name</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-12-05T22:46:54">December <span>5, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Thar Desert</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/india/" title="travel writing from India">India</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="27.004078760567136"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="70.89065550770995"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The Thar Desert is a bewitching if stark place. It reminded me of areas of the Great Basin between Las Vegas and St. George, Utah. Twigging mesquite-like trees, bluish gray bushes resembling creosote, a very large bush that resembled a Palo Verde tree and grew in impenetrable clumps, and, strangely, only one species of cactus and not a whole lot of them. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/12/majestic-fort" title="The Majestic Fort"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/jodhpurfort.jpg" alt="The Majestic Fort" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/12/majestic-fort" class="u-url" title="The Majestic Fort">The Majestic Fort</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-12-02T17:40:02">December <span>2, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Jodhpur</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/india/" title="travel writing from India">India</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="26.29741635354351"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="73.01766871389577"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The next day I hopped in a rickshaw and headed up to tour Meherangarh, or the Majestic Fort as it's known in English. As its English name indicates, it is indeed perched majestically atop the only hill around, and seems not so much built on a hill as to have naturally risen out the very rocks that form the mesa on which it rests. The outer wall encloses some of the sturdiest and most impressive ramparts I've seen in India or anywhere else. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/11/around-udaipur" title="Around Udaipur"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/shiplogram.jpg" alt="Around Udaipur" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/11/around-udaipur" class="u-url" title="Around Udaipur">Around Udaipur</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-11-30T19:05:47">November <span>30, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Udiapur</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/india/" title="travel writing from India">India</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="24.667610368715458"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="73.78486632273662"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Just out of Udaipur is a government sponsored "artist colony" for various cultures from the five nearby states, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Karnataka, Goa and Madhya Pradesh. On one hand Shilpogram is a wonderful idea on the part of the government, but on the other hand the "artists colony" is slightly creepy. Amidst displays of typical tribal life there were artists and craftsmen and women hawking their wares along with dancers and musicians performing traditional songs. The whole thing had the feel of a living museum, or, for the creepy angle — human zoo. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/11/monsoon-palace" title="The Monsoon Palace"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/monsoonpalace.jpg" alt="The Monsoon Palace" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/11/monsoon-palace" class="u-url" title="The Monsoon Palace">The Monsoon Palace</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-11-29T12:03:31">November <span>29, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Udiapur</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/india/" title="travel writing from India">India</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="24.66199437588058"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="73.68804930614868"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + We started out in the early evening quickly leaving behind Udaipur and its increasing urban sprawl. The road to the Monsoon Palace passes through the Sajjan Garh Nature Preserve and there was a sudden and dramatic drop in temperature, but then the road climbed out of the hollow and the temperature jumped back up to comfortable as we began to climb the mountain in a series of hairpin switchbacks. As the sun slowly slunk behind the mountain range to the west the balconies and balustrades of the Monsoon Palace took on an increasingly orange hue. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/11/city-palace" title="The City Palace"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/citypalaceudaipur.jpg" alt="The City Palace" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/11/city-palace" class="u-url" title="The City Palace">The City Palace</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-11-28T22:00:46">November <span>28, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Udiapur</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/india/" title="travel writing from India">India</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="24.591304879190837"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="73.69319914745653"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + I spent some time sitting in the inner gardens of the City Place, listening to rustling trees and the various guides bringing small groups of western and Indian tourists through the garden. In the center of the hanging gardens was the kings, extremely oversized bath, which reminded me of children's book that I once gave to a friend's daughter; it was a massively oversized and lavishly illustrated book that told the story of a king who refused to get out of the bath and instead made his ministers, advisors, cooks and even his wife conduct business by getting in the bath with him. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/11/living-airport-terminals" title="Living in Airport Terminals"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/ceilingfanindia.jpg" alt="Living in Airport Terminals" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/11/living-airport-terminals" class="u-url" title="Living in Airport Terminals">Living in Airport Terminals</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-11-27T11:56:20">November <span>27, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Ahmedabad</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/india/" title="travel writing from India">India</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="23.009675285624738"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="72.56237982693523"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Airport terminals are fast becoming my favorite part of traveling. When you stop and observe them closely as I have been forced to do on this trip, terminals are actually quite beautiful, weird places. Terminals inhabit a unique space in the architecture of humanity, perhaps the strangest of all spaces we have created; a space that is itself only a boundary that delineates the border between what was and what will be without leaving any space at all for what is. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/11/anjuna-market" title="Anjuna Market"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/anjunabeachmarket.jpg" alt="Anjuna Market" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/11/anjuna-market" class="u-url" title="Anjuna Market">Anjuna Market</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-11-24T00:58:15">November <span>24, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Anjuna Beach</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/india/" title="travel writing from India">India</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="15.58128947293701"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="73.73886107371965"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Earlier today I caught a bus up to the Anjuna Flea Market and can now tell you for certain that old hippies do not die, they simply move to Goa. The flea market was quite a spectacle; riots of color at every turn and more silver jewelry than you could shake a stick at. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/11/fish-story" title="Fish Story"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/colvabeach.jpg" alt="Fish Story" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/11/fish-story" class="u-url" title="Fish Story">Fish Story</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-11-20T00:54:46">November <span>20, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Colva Beach</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/india/" title="travel writing from India">India</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="15.277230227117771"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="73.91541479989145"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The Arabian Sea is warm and the sand sucks at your feet when you walk, schools of tiny fish dart and disappear into each receding wave. In the morning the water is nearly glassy and the beach slopes off so slowly one can walk out at least 200 meters and be only waist deep. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/11/backwaters-kerala" title="The Backwaters of Kerala"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/keralabackwater.jpg" alt="The Backwaters of Kerala" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/11/backwaters-kerala" class="u-url" title="The Backwaters of Kerala">The Backwaters of Kerala</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-11-15T00:53:50">November <span>15, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Fort Kochi</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/india/" title="travel writing from India">India</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="9.958029970964114"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="76.2533569229791"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The guide showed us Tamarind trees, coconut palms, lemon trees, vanilla vine, plantain trees and countless other shrubs and bushes whose names I have already forgotten. The most fascinating was a plant that produces a fruit something like a miniature mango that contains cyanide and which, as our guide informed us, is cultivated mainly to commit suicide with — as if it was no big deal and everyone is at least occasionally tempted to each the killer mango. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/11/vasco-de-gama-exhumed" title="Vasco de Gama Exhumed"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/fortcochin.jpg" alt="Vasco de Gama Exhumed" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/11/vasco-de-gama-exhumed" class="u-url" title="Vasco de Gama Exhumed">Vasco de Gama Exhumed</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-11-11T00:51:41">November <span>11, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Fort Kochi</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/india/" title="travel writing from India">India</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="9.964370231041409"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="76.24091147315164"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Fort Cochin is curious collision of cultures — Chinese, India and even Portuguese. Many of the obviously older buildings are of a distinctly Iberian-style — moss covered, adobe-colored arches abound. There is graveyard just down the road with a tombstone that bears the name Vasco de Gama, who died and was buried here for fourteen years before being moved to Lisbon (there we go again, more Europeans digging up and moving the dead). + </span> + </p> + </article> + </main> + <nav class="pagination"> + + + </nav> + + + <footer role="contentinfo"> + <nav class="bl"> + <ul> + <li><a href="/rss/" title="RSS feed">Subscribe</a></li> + <li><a href="https://twitter.com/luxagraf" rel="me" title="follow luxagraf on Twitter">@luxagraf</a></li> + <li><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/luxagraf" rel="me" title="luxagraf on Flickr">Flickr</a></li> + <li><a href="/contact/" title="contact luxagraf">Contact</a></li> + </ul> + </nav> + <p id="license"> + © 2003-2014 + <span class="h-card"><a class="p-name u-url" href="https://luxagraf.net/">Scott Gilbertson</a><data class="p-nickname" value="luxagraf"></data><data class="p-locality" value="Athens"></data><data class="p-region" 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href="/writing/indonesia/" title="travel writing from Indonesia">Indonesia</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="-8.348272379374615"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="116.0405144294601"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + They aren't really the worst place on Earth (everyone knows that's Yuma, AZ), but the Gili Islands would top my list of places you should never go to. In the end they're not even a real place, just a collection of paradise fantasies culled from decades of hippie travelers, scuba divers, honeymooners, and the rich, lost children of the West. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2011/06/best-snorkeling-world" title="The Best Snorkeling in the World"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2011/scuba_nusa_lembongan_ccFlickr.jpg" alt="The Best Snorkeling in the World" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2011/06/best-snorkeling-world" class="u-url" title="The Best Snorkeling in the World">The Best Snorkeling in the World</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2011-06-23T12:54:00">June <span>23, 2011</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Nusa Lembongan, Bali</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/indonesia/" title="travel writing from Indonesia">Indonesia</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="-8.667603048330891"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="115.44832559441208"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Drift snorkeling is like watching fish float by the window of an underwater train. And Indonesia has more marine life than anywhere I've ever been. Fish I have previously seen perhaps two or three at a time are swimming in massive schools. The blue depths are filled with dozens of Moorish Idols, schools of deep purple tangs, so dark they look black until you get up close, parrotfish in clusters, munching on the coral, bright, powder blue tangs, yellow-masked angelfish, countless butterfly fish, wrasses, triggerfish, pufferfish and even bright blue starfish that crawl slowly over the reef. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2011/06/temple-ceremony-ubud" title="The Balinese Temple Ceremony"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2011/ubud-ceremony.jpg" alt="The Balinese Temple Ceremony" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2011/06/temple-ceremony-ubud" class="u-url" title="The Balinese Temple Ceremony">The Balinese Temple Ceremony</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2011-06-19T10:25:00">June <span>19, 2011</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Ubud, Bali</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/indonesia/" title="travel writing from Indonesia">Indonesia</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="-8.480557093648551"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="115.26582809308304"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + While Balinese temples look partly like Hindu temples in India, there are other elements that come from older religions. Bali is what happens when Hindu beliefs collide with animism. The Balinese seem to embrace the basic tenants of traditional Hinduism, but then add plenty of their own animist flourishes to the mix -- like frequent and elaborate temple ceremonies. We were lucky enough to be invited to a temple ceremony in Tegallantang, Bali. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2011/06/motor-city-burning" title="Motor City is Burning"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2011/ricepaddies-h.jpg" alt="Motor City is Burning" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2011/06/motor-city-burning" class="u-url" title="Motor City is Burning">Motor City is Burning</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2011-06-16T20:05:00">June <span>16, 2011</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Ubud, Bali</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/indonesia/" title="travel writing from Indonesia">Indonesia</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="-8.512942106321157"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="115.26119323594054"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Awesome as it was to be back on the Asian version of a motorbike, it wasn't quite the relaxing riding I did in Laos and elsewhere. You can never recapture the magic, and I wasn't trying.... Okay, maybe I was, but it didn't work. regrettably Honda seems to have phased out the Dream in the last five years, replacing it with something called the Nitro, which just doesn't have the same ring to it. But the bike is irrelevant, was always irrelevant. I missed my friends. It just wasn't the same by myself. Debi, Matt, where are you? There are roads to be ridden, locals with ten people on a bike to be humbled by. 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+ <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + They aren't really the worst place on Earth (everyone knows that's Yuma, AZ), but the Gili Islands would top my list of places you should never go to. In the end they're not even a real place, just a collection of paradise fantasies culled from decades of hippie travelers, scuba divers, honeymooners, and the rich, lost children of the West. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2011/06/best-snorkeling-world" title="The Best Snorkeling in the World"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2011/scuba_nusa_lembongan_ccFlickr.jpg" alt="The Best Snorkeling in the World" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2011/06/best-snorkeling-world" class="u-url" title="The Best Snorkeling in the World">The Best Snorkeling in the World</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2011-06-23T12:54:00">June <span>23, 2011</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Nusa Lembongan, Bali</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/indonesia/" title="travel writing from Indonesia">Indonesia</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="-8.667603048330891"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="115.44832559441208"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Drift snorkeling is like watching fish float by the window of an underwater train. And Indonesia has more marine life than anywhere I've ever been. Fish I have previously seen perhaps two or three at a time are swimming in massive schools. The blue depths are filled with dozens of Moorish Idols, schools of deep purple tangs, so dark they look black until you get up close, parrotfish in clusters, munching on the coral, bright, powder blue tangs, yellow-masked angelfish, countless butterfly fish, wrasses, triggerfish, pufferfish and even bright blue starfish that crawl slowly over the reef. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2011/06/temple-ceremony-ubud" title="The Balinese Temple Ceremony"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2011/ubud-ceremony.jpg" alt="The Balinese Temple Ceremony" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2011/06/temple-ceremony-ubud" class="u-url" title="The Balinese Temple Ceremony">The Balinese Temple Ceremony</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2011-06-19T10:25:00">June <span>19, 2011</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Ubud, Bali</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/indonesia/" title="travel writing from Indonesia">Indonesia</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="-8.480557093648551"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="115.26582809308304"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + While Balinese temples look partly like Hindu temples in India, there are other elements that come from older religions. Bali is what happens when Hindu beliefs collide with animism. The Balinese seem to embrace the basic tenants of traditional Hinduism, but then add plenty of their own animist flourishes to the mix -- like frequent and elaborate temple ceremonies. We were lucky enough to be invited to a temple ceremony in Tegallantang, Bali. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2011/06/motor-city-burning" title="Motor City is Burning"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2011/ricepaddies-h.jpg" alt="Motor City is Burning" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2011/06/motor-city-burning" class="u-url" title="Motor City is Burning">Motor City is Burning</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2011-06-16T20:05:00">June <span>16, 2011</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Ubud, Bali</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/indonesia/" title="travel writing from Indonesia">Indonesia</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="-8.512942106321157"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="115.26119323594054"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Awesome as it was to be back on the Asian version of a motorbike, it wasn't quite the relaxing riding I did in Laos and elsewhere. You can never recapture the magic, and I wasn't trying.... Okay, maybe I was, but it didn't work. regrettably Honda seems to have phased out the Dream in the last five years, replacing it with something called the Nitro, which just doesn't have the same ring to it. But the bike is irrelevant, was always irrelevant. I missed my friends. It just wasn't the same by myself. Debi, Matt, where are you? There are roads to be ridden, locals with ten people on a bike to be humbled by. 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The restaurants are good, but if you really want to experience the glory of Italian food you need to head to the market, grab some utterly amazing raw ingredients and whip up something yourself. This is what food is supposed to be, simple, fresh and great. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2011/06/natural-science" title="Natural Science"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2011/florenceh.jpg" alt="Natural Science" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2011/06/natural-science" class="u-url" title="Natural Science">Natural Science</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2011-06-10T20:54:00">June <span>10, 2011</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Firenze (Florence)</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/italy/" title="travel writing from Italy">Italy</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="43.76987122050593"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="11.254618042254865"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + There's no way around it; Florence is crowded. It may well be that Naples is the only Italian city that isn't overrun with tourists in the summer, but after three days of hardly seeing another traveler, I wasn't prepared for the crowds. Luckily it isn't hard to avoid the tourist hordes, just get up early and then when everyone else is starting to stir, head for obscure museums like La Specola, part of the Museo di Storia Naturale di Firenze. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2011/06/forever-today" title="Forever Today"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2011/pompeiih.jpg" alt="Forever Today" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2011/06/forever-today" class="u-url" title="Forever Today">Forever Today</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2011-06-07T17:50:00">June <span>7, 2011</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Pompeii</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/italy/" title="travel writing from Italy">Italy</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="40.75211491821789"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="14.480285518306573"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Pompeii feels both very old and not that different from the modern cities that surround it now. The gap between then and now feels small because when you wander around places like Pompeii you realize that human beings have changed very little over vast expanses of time. Pompeii had the same elements of cities today, a central square, markets, temples, government offices, even fast food. Not much has changed over the years, though togas aren’t much in vogue these days. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2011/06/new-pollution" title="The New Pollution"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2011/naplesh.jpg" alt="The New Pollution" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2011/06/new-pollution" class="u-url" title="The New Pollution">The New Pollution</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2011-06-06T08:17:00">June <span>6, 2011</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Napoli (Naples)</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/italy/" title="travel writing from Italy">Italy</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="40.84484016249223"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="14.255757801685807"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Naples Italy is a big, crowded, graffiti-filled city. It's an intimidating place that is by turns a bit like Philadelphia, a bit Mumbai, a bit some post-apocalyptic video game and, in the end, something else entirely. Still, given the tourist epidemic that sweeps Italy every summer, Naples is a place worth appreciating for what it is not, even if what is isn't, perhaps, enough to ever bring you back. + </span> + </p> + </article> + </main> + <nav class="pagination"> + + + </nav> + + + <footer role="contentinfo"> + <nav class="bl"> + <ul> + <li><a href="/rss/" title="RSS feed">Subscribe</a></li> + <li><a href="https://twitter.com/luxagraf" rel="me" title="follow luxagraf on Twitter">@luxagraf</a></li> + <li><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/luxagraf" rel="me" title="luxagraf on Flickr">Flickr</a></li> + <li><a href="/contact/" title="contact luxagraf">Contact</a></li> + </ul> + </nav> + <p id="license"> + © 2003-2014 + <span class="h-card"><a class="p-name u-url" href="https://luxagraf.net/">Scott Gilbertson</a><data class="p-nickname" value="luxagraf"></data><data class="p-locality" value="Athens"></data><data class="p-region" value="Georgia"></data><data class="p-country-name" value="United 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class="archive"> + <h1 class="hide">Writing from Italy</h1> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2011/06/cooking-rome" title="Cooking in Rome"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2011/rome-h.jpg" alt="Cooking in Rome" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2011/06/cooking-rome" class="u-url" title="Cooking in Rome">Cooking in Rome</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2011-06-14T17:18:00">June <span>14, 2011</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Rome</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/italy/" title="travel writing from Italy">Italy</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="41.865455693141165"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="12.461011283881284"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + In the end Italy and I didn't really get along, but the food redeemed it for me. The restaurants are good, but if you really want to experience the glory of Italian food you need to head to the market, grab some utterly amazing raw ingredients and whip up something yourself. This is what food is supposed to be, simple, fresh and great. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2011/06/natural-science" title="Natural Science"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2011/florenceh.jpg" alt="Natural Science" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2011/06/natural-science" class="u-url" title="Natural Science">Natural Science</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2011-06-10T20:54:00">June <span>10, 2011</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Firenze (Florence)</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/italy/" title="travel writing from Italy">Italy</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="43.76987122050593"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="11.254618042254865"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + There's no way around it; Florence is crowded. It may well be that Naples is the only Italian city that isn't overrun with tourists in the summer, but after three days of hardly seeing another traveler, I wasn't prepared for the crowds. Luckily it isn't hard to avoid the tourist hordes, just get up early and then when everyone else is starting to stir, head for obscure museums like La Specola, part of the Museo di Storia Naturale di Firenze. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2011/06/forever-today" title="Forever Today"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2011/pompeiih.jpg" alt="Forever Today" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2011/06/forever-today" class="u-url" title="Forever Today">Forever Today</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2011-06-07T17:50:00">June <span>7, 2011</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Pompeii</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/italy/" title="travel writing from Italy">Italy</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="40.75211491821789"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="14.480285518306573"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Pompeii feels both very old and not that different from the modern cities that surround it now. The gap between then and now feels small because when you wander around places like Pompeii you realize that human beings have changed very little over vast expanses of time. Pompeii had the same elements of cities today, a central square, markets, temples, government offices, even fast food. Not much has changed over the years, though togas aren’t much in vogue these days. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2011/06/new-pollution" title="The New Pollution"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2011/naplesh.jpg" alt="The New Pollution" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2011/06/new-pollution" class="u-url" title="The New Pollution">The New Pollution</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2011-06-06T08:17:00">June <span>6, 2011</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Napoli (Naples)</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/italy/" title="travel writing from Italy">Italy</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="40.84484016249223"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="14.255757801685807"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Naples Italy is a big, crowded, graffiti-filled city. It's an intimidating place that is by turns a bit like Philadelphia, a bit Mumbai, a bit some post-apocalyptic video game and, in the end, something else entirely. Still, given the tourist epidemic that sweeps Italy every summer, Naples is a place worth appreciating for what it is not, even if what is isn't, perhaps, enough to ever bring you back. + </span> + </p> + </article> + </main> + <nav class="pagination"> + + + </nav> + + + <footer role="contentinfo"> + <nav class="bl"> + <ul> + <li><a href="/rss/" title="RSS feed">Subscribe</a></li> + <li><a href="https://twitter.com/luxagraf" rel="me" title="follow luxagraf on Twitter">@luxagraf</a></li> + <li><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/luxagraf" rel="me" title="luxagraf on Flickr">Flickr</a></li> + <li><a href="/contact/" title="contact luxagraf">Contact</a></li> + </ul> + </nav> + <p id="license"> + © 2003-2014 + <span class="h-card"><a class="p-name u-url" href="https://luxagraf.net/">Scott Gilbertson</a><data class="p-nickname" value="luxagraf"></data><data class="p-locality" value="Athens"></data><data class="p-region" value="Georgia"></data><data class="p-country-name" value="United 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role="main" id="writing-archive" class="archive"> + <h1 class="hide">Writing from Lao (Pdr)</h1> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/02/little-corner-world" title="Little Corner of the World"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/siphondon.jpg" alt="Little Corner of the World" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/02/little-corner-world" class="u-url" title="Little Corner of the World">Little Corner of the World</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-02-28T20:13:00">February <span>28, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Four Thousand Islands</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/laos/" title="travel writing from Lao (PDR)">Lao (PDR)</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="14.130915842740961"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="105.83782194571636"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + It's difficult to explain but the further south you go in Laos the more relaxed life becomes. Since life in the north is not exactly high stress, by the time we arrived in the four thousand Islands we had to check our pulse periodically to ensure that time was in fact still moving forward. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/02/cant-get-there-here" title="Can&#8217;t Get There From Here"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/attapeulight.jpg" alt="Can&#8217;t Get There From Here" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/02/cant-get-there-here" class="u-url" title="Can&#8217;t Get There From Here">Can’t Get There From Here</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-02-24T20:00:03">February <span>24, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Attapeu</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/laos/" title="travel writing from Lao (PDR)">Lao (PDR)</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="14.806085524831946"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="106.83689115944449"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The most magical light in Laos lives on the Bolevan Plateau. For some reason not many tourists seem to make it out to the Bolevan Plateau, in spite of the fact that the roads are quite good, transport runs regularly, the villages peaceful, even sleepy, little hamlets. In short, the Bolevan Plateau is wonderful, and not the least in part because no one else is there. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/02/safe-milk" title="Safe as Milk"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/usbombs.jpg" alt="Safe as Milk" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/02/safe-milk" class="u-url" title="Safe as Milk">Safe as Milk</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-02-18T19:54:24">February <span>18, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Sekong</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/laos/" title="travel writing from Lao (PDR)">Lao (PDR)</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="14.623949505069236"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="106.5756225437582"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + You would think, if you were the United States and you were illegally and unofficially bombing a foreign country you might not want to stamp "US Bomb" on the side of your bombs, and yet there it was all over Laos: "US Bomb." Clearly somebody didn't think things all the way through, especially given that roughly one third of said bombs failed to explode. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/02/everyday-fourteenth" title="Everyday the Fourteenth"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/hinbunriver.jpg" alt="Everyday the Fourteenth" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/02/everyday-fourteenth" class="u-url" title="Everyday the Fourteenth">Everyday the Fourteenth</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-02-14T19:50:35">February <span>14, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Savannakhet</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/laos/" title="travel writing from Lao (PDR)">Lao (PDR)</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="16.560435757136183"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="104.75026129218114"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + We piled four large bags, four daypacks and five people in a six meter dugout canoe. The boat was powered by the ever-present-in-southeast-Asia long tail motor which is essential a lawnmower engine with a three meter pole extending out of it to which a small propeller is attached — perfect for navigating shallow water. And by shallow I mean sometimes a mere inch between the hull and the riverbed. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/02/water-slides-and-spirit-guides" title="Water Slides and Spirit Guides"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/konglorcave.jpg" alt="Water Slides and Spirit Guides" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/02/water-slides-and-spirit-guides" class="u-url" title="Water Slides and Spirit Guides">Water Slides and Spirit Guides</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-02-10T19:47:12">February <span>10, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Konglor Cave</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/laos/" title="travel writing from Lao (PDR)">Lao (PDR)</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="18.06285035750356"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="104.49783323740189"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The dramatic black karst limestone mountains ringing Ban Na Hin grew darker as the light faded. I was sitting alone on the back porch of our guesthouse watching the light slowly disappear from the bottoms of the clouds and wondering absently how many pages it would take to explain how I came to be in the tiny town of Ban Na Hin, or if such an explanation even really existed. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/02/lovely-universe" title="The Lovely Universe"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/vangveing.jpg" alt="The Lovely Universe" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/02/lovely-universe" class="u-url" title="The Lovely Universe">The Lovely Universe</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-02-04T23:43:28">February <span>4, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Vang Vieng</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/laos/" title="travel writing from Lao (PDR)">Lao (PDR)</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="18.92544862065573"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="102.43755339150223"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + I would like to say that I have something memorable to write about Vang Vieng, but the truth is we mostly sat around doing very little, making new friends, drinking a beer around the fire and waiting out the Chinese new year celebrations, which meant none of us could get Cambodian visas until the following Monday. We were forced to relax beside the river for several more days than we intended. Yes friends, traveling is hard, but I do it for you. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/01/i-used-fly-peter-pan" title="I Used to Fly Like Peter Pan"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/gibbonexperience.jpg" alt="I Used to Fly Like Peter Pan" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/01/i-used-fly-peter-pan" class="u-url" title="I Used to Fly Like Peter Pan">I Used to Fly Like Peter Pan</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-01-21T19:42:47">January <span>21, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Luang Nam Tha</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/laos/" title="travel writing from Lao (PDR)">Lao (PDR)</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="20.853678554651314"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="101.19094847224211"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The next time someone asks you, “would you like to live in a tree house and travel five hundred feet above the ground attached to a zip wire?” I highly suggest you say, “yes, where do a I sign up?” If you happen to be in Laos, try the Gibbon Experience. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/01/hymn-big-wheel" title="Hymn of the Big Wheel"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/bluemilkwaterfall.jpg" alt="Hymn of the Big Wheel" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/01/hymn-big-wheel" class="u-url" title="Hymn of the Big Wheel">Hymn of the Big Wheel</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-01-19T19:37:46">January <span>19, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Luang Prabang</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/laos/" title="travel writing from Lao (PDR)">Lao (PDR)</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="19.827433510057354"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="102.42279051308633"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Jose Saramago writes in <cite>The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis</cite> that the gods "journey like us in the river of things, differing from us only because we call them gods and sometimes believe in them." Sitting in the middle of the river listening to the gurgle of water moving over stone and around trees I began to think that perhaps this is the sound of some lost language, a sound capable of creating mountains, valleys, estuaries, isthmuses and all the other forms around us, gurgling and sonorous but without clear meaning, shrouded in turquoise, a mystery through which we can move our sense of wonder intact. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/01/down-river" title="Down the River"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/mekongslowboat.jpg" alt="Down the River" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/01/down-river" class="u-url" title="Down the River">Down the River</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-01-17T20:13:26">January <span>17, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Luang Prabang</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/laos/" title="travel writing from Lao (PDR)">Lao (PDR)</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="19.875064447947235"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="102.13199614056808"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Morning in Chiang Khong Thailand revealed itself as a foggy, and not a little mysterious, affair with the far shore of the Mekong, the Laos shore, almost completely hidden in a veil of mist. 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(Pdr)</h1> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/02/little-corner-world" title="Little Corner of the World"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/siphondon.jpg" alt="Little Corner of the World" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/02/little-corner-world" class="u-url" title="Little Corner of the World">Little Corner of the World</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-02-28T20:13:00">February <span>28, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Four Thousand Islands</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/laos/" title="travel writing from Lao (PDR)">Lao (PDR)</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="14.130915842740961"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="105.83782194571636"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + It's difficult to explain but the further south you go in Laos the more relaxed life becomes. Since life in the north is not exactly high stress, by the time we arrived in the four thousand Islands we had to check our pulse periodically to ensure that time was in fact still moving forward. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/02/cant-get-there-here" title="Can&#8217;t Get There From Here"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/attapeulight.jpg" alt="Can&#8217;t Get There From Here" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/02/cant-get-there-here" class="u-url" title="Can&#8217;t Get There From Here">Can’t Get There From Here</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-02-24T20:00:03">February <span>24, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Attapeu</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/laos/" title="travel writing from Lao (PDR)">Lao (PDR)</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="14.806085524831946"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="106.83689115944449"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The most magical light in Laos lives on the Bolevan Plateau. For some reason not many tourists seem to make it out to the Bolevan Plateau, in spite of the fact that the roads are quite good, transport runs regularly, the villages peaceful, even sleepy, little hamlets. In short, the Bolevan Plateau is wonderful, and not the least in part because no one else is there. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/02/safe-milk" title="Safe as Milk"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/usbombs.jpg" alt="Safe as Milk" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/02/safe-milk" class="u-url" title="Safe as Milk">Safe as Milk</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-02-18T19:54:24">February <span>18, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Sekong</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/laos/" title="travel writing from Lao (PDR)">Lao (PDR)</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="14.623949505069236"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="106.5756225437582"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + You would think, if you were the United States and you were illegally and unofficially bombing a foreign country you might not want to stamp "US Bomb" on the side of your bombs, and yet there it was all over Laos: "US Bomb." Clearly somebody didn't think things all the way through, especially given that roughly one third of said bombs failed to explode. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/02/everyday-fourteenth" title="Everyday the Fourteenth"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/hinbunriver.jpg" alt="Everyday the Fourteenth" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/02/everyday-fourteenth" class="u-url" title="Everyday the Fourteenth">Everyday the Fourteenth</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-02-14T19:50:35">February <span>14, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Savannakhet</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/laos/" title="travel writing from Lao (PDR)">Lao (PDR)</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="16.560435757136183"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="104.75026129218114"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + We piled four large bags, four daypacks and five people in a six meter dugout canoe. The boat was powered by the ever-present-in-southeast-Asia long tail motor which is essential a lawnmower engine with a three meter pole extending out of it to which a small propeller is attached — perfect for navigating shallow water. And by shallow I mean sometimes a mere inch between the hull and the riverbed. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/02/water-slides-and-spirit-guides" title="Water Slides and Spirit Guides"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/konglorcave.jpg" alt="Water Slides and Spirit Guides" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/02/water-slides-and-spirit-guides" class="u-url" title="Water Slides and Spirit Guides">Water Slides and Spirit Guides</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-02-10T19:47:12">February <span>10, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Konglor Cave</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/laos/" title="travel writing from Lao (PDR)">Lao (PDR)</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="18.06285035750356"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="104.49783323740189"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The dramatic black karst limestone mountains ringing Ban Na Hin grew darker as the light faded. I was sitting alone on the back porch of our guesthouse watching the light slowly disappear from the bottoms of the clouds and wondering absently how many pages it would take to explain how I came to be in the tiny town of Ban Na Hin, or if such an explanation even really existed. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/02/lovely-universe" title="The Lovely Universe"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/vangveing.jpg" alt="The Lovely Universe" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/02/lovely-universe" class="u-url" title="The Lovely Universe">The Lovely Universe</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-02-04T23:43:28">February <span>4, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Vang Vieng</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/laos/" title="travel writing from Lao (PDR)">Lao (PDR)</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="18.92544862065573"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="102.43755339150223"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + I would like to say that I have something memorable to write about Vang Vieng, but the truth is we mostly sat around doing very little, making new friends, drinking a beer around the fire and waiting out the Chinese new year celebrations, which meant none of us could get Cambodian visas until the following Monday. We were forced to relax beside the river for several more days than we intended. Yes friends, traveling is hard, but I do it for you. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/01/i-used-fly-peter-pan" title="I Used to Fly Like Peter Pan"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/gibbonexperience.jpg" alt="I Used to Fly Like Peter Pan" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/01/i-used-fly-peter-pan" class="u-url" title="I Used to Fly Like Peter Pan">I Used to Fly Like Peter Pan</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-01-21T19:42:47">January <span>21, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Luang Nam Tha</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/laos/" title="travel writing from Lao (PDR)">Lao (PDR)</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="20.853678554651314"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="101.19094847224211"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The next time someone asks you, “would you like to live in a tree house and travel five hundred feet above the ground attached to a zip wire?” I highly suggest you say, “yes, where do a I sign up?” If you happen to be in Laos, try the Gibbon Experience. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/01/hymn-big-wheel" title="Hymn of the Big Wheel"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/bluemilkwaterfall.jpg" alt="Hymn of the Big Wheel" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/01/hymn-big-wheel" class="u-url" title="Hymn of the Big Wheel">Hymn of the Big Wheel</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-01-19T19:37:46">January <span>19, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Luang Prabang</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/laos/" title="travel writing from Lao (PDR)">Lao (PDR)</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="19.827433510057354"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="102.42279051308633"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Jose Saramago writes in <cite>The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis</cite> that the gods "journey like us in the river of things, differing from us only because we call them gods and sometimes believe in them." Sitting in the middle of the river listening to the gurgle of water moving over stone and around trees I began to think that perhaps this is the sound of some lost language, a sound capable of creating mountains, valleys, estuaries, isthmuses and all the other forms around us, gurgling and sonorous but without clear meaning, shrouded in turquoise, a mystery through which we can move our sense of wonder intact. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/01/down-river" title="Down the River"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/mekongslowboat.jpg" alt="Down the River" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/01/down-river" class="u-url" title="Down the River">Down the River</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-01-17T20:13:26">January <span>17, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Luang Prabang</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/laos/" title="travel writing from Lao (PDR)">Lao (PDR)</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="19.875064447947235"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="102.13199614056808"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Morning in Chiang Khong Thailand revealed itself as a foggy, and not a little mysterious, affair with the far shore of the Mekong, the Laos shore, almost completely hidden in a veil of mist. 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value="83.95820616507119"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + After about forty-five minutes of paddling I reached a point where the views of the Annapurna range were, in the words of an Englishman I met in Katmandu, "gob smacking gorgeous." I put down the paddle and moved to the center of the boat where the benches were wider and, using my bag a cushion, lay back against the gunwale and hung my feet over the opposite side so that they just skimmed the surface of the chilly water. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/12/pashupatinath" title="Pashupatinath"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/nepalburninggahts.jpg" alt="Pashupatinath" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/12/pashupatinath" class="u-url" title="Pashupatinath">Pashupatinath</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-12-15T18:02:59">December <span>15, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Pashupatinath</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/nepal/" title="travel writing from Nepal">Nepal</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="27.71057315568692"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="85.34853457216452"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Nestled on a hillside beside the Bagmati River, Pashupatinath is one of the holiest sites in the world for Hindus, second only to Varanasi in India. Pashupatinath consists of a large temple which is open only to Hindus, surrounded by a number of smaller shrines and then down on the banks of the Bagmati are the burning ghats where bodies are cremated. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/12/durbar-square-kathmandu" title="Durbar Square Kathmandu"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/durbarsquare.jpg" alt="Durbar Square Kathmandu" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/12/durbar-square-kathmandu" class="u-url" title="Durbar Square Kathmandu">Durbar Square Kathmandu</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-12-15T17:57:48">December <span>15, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Kathmandu</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/nepal/" title="travel writing from Nepal">Nepal</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="27.703363690641837"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="85.31737803225191"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + After saturating myself with the streets of Thamel I went on a longer excursion down to Durbar Square to see the various pagodas, temples and the old palace. The palace itself no longer houses the King, but is still used for coronations and ceremonies and Durbar Square is still very much the hub of Katmandu. + </span> + </p> + </article> + </main> + <nav class="pagination"> + + + </nav> + + + <footer role="contentinfo"> + <nav class="bl"> + <ul> + <li><a href="/rss/" title="RSS feed">Subscribe</a></li> + <li><a href="https://twitter.com/luxagraf" rel="me" title="follow luxagraf on Twitter">@luxagraf</a></li> + <li><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/luxagraf" rel="me" title="luxagraf on Flickr">Flickr</a></li> + <li><a href="/contact/" title="contact luxagraf">Contact</a></li> + </ul> + </nav> + <p id="license"> + © 2003-2014 + <span class="h-card"><a class="p-name u-url" href="https://luxagraf.net/">Scott Gilbertson</a><data class="p-nickname" value="luxagraf"></data><data class="p-locality" value="Athens"></data><data class="p-region" value="Georgia"></data><data class="p-country-name" value="United States"></data></span>, except 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<data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="83.95820616507119"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + After about forty-five minutes of paddling I reached a point where the views of the Annapurna range were, in the words of an Englishman I met in Katmandu, "gob smacking gorgeous." I put down the paddle and moved to the center of the boat where the benches were wider and, using my bag a cushion, lay back against the gunwale and hung my feet over the opposite side so that they just skimmed the surface of the chilly water. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/12/pashupatinath" title="Pashupatinath"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/nepalburninggahts.jpg" alt="Pashupatinath" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/12/pashupatinath" class="u-url" title="Pashupatinath">Pashupatinath</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-12-15T18:02:59">December <span>15, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Pashupatinath</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/nepal/" title="travel writing from Nepal">Nepal</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="27.71057315568692"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="85.34853457216452"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Nestled on a hillside beside the Bagmati River, Pashupatinath is one of the holiest sites in the world for Hindus, second only to Varanasi in India. 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class="archive"> + <h1 class="hide">Writing from Nicaragua</h1> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2008/07/our-days-are-becoming-nights" title="Our Days Are Becoming Nights"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/daysnights.jpg" alt="Our Days Are Becoming Nights" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2008/07/our-days-are-becoming-nights" class="u-url" title="Our Days Are Becoming Nights">Our Days Are Becoming Nights</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2008-07-06T23:30:25">July <span>6, 2008</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">León</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/nicaragua/" title="travel writing from Nicaragua">Nicaragua</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="12.436482242903942"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-86.88458203059939"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + A short thought on the eve of our departure from Nicaragua: Everywhere I go I think, I should live here... I should be able to not just visit places, but in habit them. Of course that isn't possible, which is too bad. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2008/07/tiny-cities-made-ash" title="Tiny Cities Made of Ash"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/citiesmadeofash.jpg" alt="Tiny Cities Made of Ash" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2008/07/tiny-cities-made-ash" class="u-url" title="Tiny Cities Made of Ash">Tiny Cities Made of Ash</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2008-07-03T23:21:22">July <span>3, 2008</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">León</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/nicaragua/" title="travel writing from Nicaragua">Nicaragua</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="12.435654551658532"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-86.88220022899453"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The church bells of León have become a constant cacophony, not the rhythmic ringing out of the hours or tolling from Mass that the human mind seems to find pleasant, but the atonal banging that only appeals to the young and dumb. But Francisco is entirely unperturbed; He's too fascinated with the tattoo on Corrinne's shoulder to bother with what slowly just becomes yet another sound echoing through León. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2008/06/you-cant-go-home-again" title="You Can't Go Home Again"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/nohomeagain.jpg" alt="You Can't Go Home Again" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2008/06/you-cant-go-home-again" class="u-url" title="You Can't Go Home Again">You Can’t Go Home Again</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2008-06-30T17:49:43">June <span>30, 2008</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Little Corn Island</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/nicaragua/" title="travel writing from Nicaragua">Nicaragua</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="12.289688381766881"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-82.97098158635038"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The first time we came to Little Corn Island it was April, the tail end of the dry season. It rained once or twice, but never for more than five minutes and always followed by more sunshine. This time it's the end of June, just well into the wet season, and the island is an entirely different place. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2008/06/returning-again-back-little-corn-island" title="Returning Again &mdash; Back on Little Corn Island"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/littlecornagain.jpg" alt="Returning Again &mdash; Back on Little Corn Island" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2008/06/returning-again-back-little-corn-island" class="u-url" title="Returning Again &mdash; Back on Little Corn Island">Returning Again — Back on Little Corn Island</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2008-06-26T13:21:17">June <span>26, 2008</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Little Corn Island</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/nicaragua/" title="travel writing from Nicaragua">Nicaragua</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="12.290694745245395"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-82.97132490910438"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Generally speaking, the world seems so huge and so full of amazing destinations that repeating one never struck me as a judicious use of my short allotment of time. But for Little Corn Island I'm willing to make an exception and of course, the universe being what it is, our second trip to Little Corn Island has been unpredictable and entirely new. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2008/04/little-island-sun" title="Little Island in the Sun"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/coconutsun.jpg" alt="Little Island in the Sun" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2008/04/little-island-sun" class="u-url" title="Little Island in the Sun">Little Island in the Sun</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2008-04-05T23:31:15">April <span>5, 2008</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Little Corn Island</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/nicaragua/" title="travel writing from Nicaragua">Nicaragua</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="12.297403736673346"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-82.97458647526604"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + We arrived on Little Corn Island around sundown and met Ali, whom I at first took to be a tout, but he showed us the way to our guesthouse and, after settling in and getting a feel for the island, I realized that Ali, wasn't a tout, he was just a really nice guy who enjoyed doing favors for tourists, just beware the Yoni beverage he offers. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2008/04/return-sea" title="Return to the Sea"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/sanjuansunset.jpg" alt="Return to the Sea" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2008/04/return-sea" class="u-url" title="Return to the Sea">Return to the Sea</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2008-04-02T20:22:29">April <span>2, 2008</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">San Juan Del Sur</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/nicaragua/" title="travel writing from Nicaragua">Nicaragua</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="11.254384499067603"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-85.8734750628141"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Southwestern Nicaragua is a very small strip of land with Lago Nicaragua to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. The main town in the area, Juan Del Sur, is nestled around a well protected harbor with a mediocre strip of sand. For the nice beaches you have to head up or down the coast to one of the many small inlets. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2008/03/ring-bells" title="Ring The Bells"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/ringthbells.jpg" alt="Ring The Bells" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2008/03/ring-bells" class="u-url" title="Ring The Bells">Ring The Bells</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2008-03-30T23:37:40">March <span>30, 2008</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Granada</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/nicaragua/" title="travel writing from Nicaragua">Nicaragua</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="11.932062265861589"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-85.95813630814854"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The Church, which dates from the 1600s has the the narrowest, steepest, circular concrete staircase that I've ever encountered. It had a low railing and circled up four stories worth of precipitous dropoffs before you hit solid ground. From the top was a views of Granada's endless sea of mottled pink, orange and brown hues -- terra cotta roof tiles stretching from the shores of Lago Nicaragua all the way back toward the hills. + </span> + </p> + </article> + </main> + <nav class="pagination"> + + + </nav> + + + <footer role="contentinfo"> + <nav class="bl"> + <ul> + <li><a href="/rss/" title="RSS feed">Subscribe</a></li> + <li><a href="https://twitter.com/luxagraf" rel="me" title="follow luxagraf on Twitter">@luxagraf</a></li> + <li><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/luxagraf" rel="me" title="luxagraf on Flickr">Flickr</a></li> + <li><a href="/contact/" title="contact luxagraf">Contact</a></li> + </ul> + </nav> + <p id="license"> + © 2003-2014 + <span class="h-card"><a class="p-name u-url" href="https://luxagraf.net/">Scott Gilbertson</a><data class="p-nickname" value="luxagraf"></data><data class="p-locality" value="Athens"></data><data class="p-region" value="Georgia"></data><data class="p-country-name" 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Nicaragua">Nicaragua</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="12.436482242903942"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-86.88458203059939"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + A short thought on the eve of our departure from Nicaragua: Everywhere I go I think, I should live here... I should be able to not just visit places, but in habit them. Of course that isn't possible, which is too bad. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2008/07/tiny-cities-made-ash" title="Tiny Cities Made of Ash"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/citiesmadeofash.jpg" alt="Tiny Cities Made of Ash" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2008/07/tiny-cities-made-ash" class="u-url" title="Tiny Cities Made of Ash">Tiny Cities Made of Ash</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2008-07-03T23:21:22">July <span>3, 2008</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">León</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/nicaragua/" title="travel writing from Nicaragua">Nicaragua</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="12.435654551658532"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-86.88220022899453"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The church bells of León have become a constant cacophony, not the rhythmic ringing out of the hours or tolling from Mass that the human mind seems to find pleasant, but the atonal banging that only appeals to the young and dumb. But Francisco is entirely unperturbed; He's too fascinated with the tattoo on Corrinne's shoulder to bother with what slowly just becomes yet another sound echoing through León. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2008/06/you-cant-go-home-again" title="You Can't Go Home Again"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/nohomeagain.jpg" alt="You Can't Go Home Again" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2008/06/you-cant-go-home-again" class="u-url" title="You Can't Go Home Again">You Can’t Go Home Again</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2008-06-30T17:49:43">June <span>30, 2008</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Little Corn Island</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/nicaragua/" title="travel writing from Nicaragua">Nicaragua</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="12.289688381766881"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-82.97098158635038"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The first time we came to Little Corn Island it was April, the tail end of the dry season. It rained once or twice, but never for more than five minutes and always followed by more sunshine. This time it's the end of June, just well into the wet season, and the island is an entirely different place. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2008/06/returning-again-back-little-corn-island" title="Returning Again &mdash; Back on Little Corn Island"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/littlecornagain.jpg" alt="Returning Again &mdash; Back on Little Corn Island" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2008/06/returning-again-back-little-corn-island" class="u-url" title="Returning Again &mdash; Back on Little Corn Island">Returning Again — Back on Little Corn Island</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2008-06-26T13:21:17">June <span>26, 2008</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Little Corn Island</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/nicaragua/" title="travel writing from Nicaragua">Nicaragua</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="12.290694745245395"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-82.97132490910438"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Generally speaking, the world seems so huge and so full of amazing destinations that repeating one never struck me as a judicious use of my short allotment of time. But for Little Corn Island I'm willing to make an exception and of course, the universe being what it is, our second trip to Little Corn Island has been unpredictable and entirely new. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2008/04/little-island-sun" title="Little Island in the Sun"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/coconutsun.jpg" alt="Little Island in the Sun" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2008/04/little-island-sun" class="u-url" title="Little Island in the Sun">Little Island in the Sun</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2008-04-05T23:31:15">April <span>5, 2008</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Little Corn Island</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/nicaragua/" title="travel writing from Nicaragua">Nicaragua</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="12.297403736673346"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-82.97458647526604"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + We arrived on Little Corn Island around sundown and met Ali, whom I at first took to be a tout, but he showed us the way to our guesthouse and, after settling in and getting a feel for the island, I realized that Ali, wasn't a tout, he was just a really nice guy who enjoyed doing favors for tourists, just beware the Yoni beverage he offers. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2008/04/return-sea" title="Return to the Sea"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/sanjuansunset.jpg" alt="Return to the Sea" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2008/04/return-sea" class="u-url" title="Return to the Sea">Return to the Sea</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2008-04-02T20:22:29">April <span>2, 2008</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">San Juan Del Sur</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/nicaragua/" title="travel writing from Nicaragua">Nicaragua</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="11.254384499067603"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-85.8734750628141"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Southwestern Nicaragua is a very small strip of land with Lago Nicaragua to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. The main town in the area, Juan Del Sur, is nestled around a well protected harbor with a mediocre strip of sand. For the nice beaches you have to head up or down the coast to one of the many small inlets. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2008/03/ring-bells" title="Ring The Bells"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/ringthbells.jpg" alt="Ring The Bells" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2008/03/ring-bells" class="u-url" title="Ring The Bells">Ring The Bells</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2008-03-30T23:37:40">March <span>30, 2008</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Granada</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/nicaragua/" title="travel writing from Nicaragua">Nicaragua</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="11.932062265861589"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-85.95813630814854"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The Church, which dates from the 1600s has the the narrowest, steepest, circular concrete staircase that I've ever encountered. It had a low railing and circled up four stories worth of precipitous dropoffs before you hit solid ground. From the top was a views of Granada's endless sea of mottled pink, orange and brown hues -- terra cotta roof tiles stretching from the shores of Lago Nicaragua all the way back toward the hills. + </span> + </p> + </article> + </main> + <nav class="pagination"> + + + </nav> + + + <footer role="contentinfo"> + <nav class="bl"> + <ul> + <li><a href="/rss/" title="RSS feed">Subscribe</a></li> + <li><a href="https://twitter.com/luxagraf" rel="me" title="follow luxagraf on Twitter">@luxagraf</a></li> + <li><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/luxagraf" rel="me" title="luxagraf on Flickr">Flickr</a></li> + <li><a href="/contact/" title="contact luxagraf">Contact</a></li> + </ul> + </nav> + <p id="license"> + © 2003-2014 + <span class="h-card"><a class="p-name u-url" href="https://luxagraf.net/">Scott Gilbertson</a><data class="p-nickname" value="luxagraf"></data><data class="p-locality" value="Athens"></data><data class="p-region" value="Georgia"></data><data class="p-country-name" 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<li>North America</li> + </ul> + <main role="main" id="writing-archive" class="archive"> + <h1 class="hide">Writing from North America</h1> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2013/05/oysterman-wanted" title="Oysterman Wanted"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2013/abandonedboat.jpg" alt="Oysterman Wanted" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2013/05/oysterman-wanted" class="u-url" title="Oysterman Wanted">Oysterman Wanted</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2013-05-29T19:43:23">May <span>29, 2013</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">St. George Island</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Florida</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="29.664094724906786"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-84.86566792845446"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The world of oystermen and local fishing industry is doomed. Even the people resisting the transition know they’re no longer fighting for their way of life. They’re just fighting to keep the thinnest resemblance of what they’ve always known around until they leave this world. They’re fighting to keep from having to watch the death of everything they know. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2013/05/all-the-pretty-beaches" title="All the Pretty Beaches"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2013/stgeorgeisland_1.jpg" alt="All the Pretty Beaches" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2013/05/all-the-pretty-beaches" class="u-url" title="All the Pretty Beaches">All the Pretty Beaches</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2013-05-26T22:43:23">May <span>26, 2013</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">St. George Island</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Florida</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="29.65981806259071"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-84.87047444700387"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + St. George is just off the Gulf Coast of northwest Florida, only about 7 hours from where I live. There are better places if you're looking to dive or snorkel. Ditto if it's nightlife you're after. But if you're looking for a seemingly endless amount of gorgeous white sand beaches you'll share with only a few migratory birds, St. George is the place to be. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2013/05/consider-the-apalachicola-oyster" title="Consider the Apalachicola Oyster"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2013/considertheoyster.jpg" alt="Consider the Apalachicola Oyster" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2013/05/consider-the-apalachicola-oyster" class="u-url" title="Consider the Apalachicola Oyster">Consider the Apalachicola Oyster</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2013-05-22T19:43:23">May <span>22, 2013</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Apalachicola</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Florida</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="29.72867205648089"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-84.98378973124662"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + If you know the name Apalachicola at all it’s likely because of its eponymous oysters. Very few things, let alone culinary things, are as attached to place as oysters. In fact, once you get beyond the Rockefeller, ordering “oysters” is akin to walking in a bar and ordering “a beer.” But unlike beer, oysters don’t have brands, they have places — Pemaquid, Wellfleet, Blue Point, Apalachicola. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2012/05/things-behind-sun" title="Things Behind the Sun"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2012/tucsonblur.jpg" alt="Things Behind the Sun" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2012/05/things-behind-sun" class="u-url" title="Things Behind the Sun">Things Behind the Sun</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2012-05-20T22:47:00">May <span>20, 2012</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Athens</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Georgia</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.95674257719642"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-83.37592612645985"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + My grandparents left the home they lived in for 60 years today. I don't know how much of my life was spent in that house, probably well over a year if you added up all the holidays and family gatherings. And now I'm thousands of miles away and someone is clearing out the house. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2012/03/street-food-athens-georgia" title="Street Food in Athens Georgia"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2012/foodcart1.jpg" alt="Street Food in Athens Georgia" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2012/03/street-food-athens-georgia" class="u-url" title="Street Food in Athens Georgia">Street Food in Athens Georgia</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2012-03-31T21:56:00">March <span>31, 2012</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Athens</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Georgia</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.959861666904274"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-83.37601195713451"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Cheap food, made fresh, in front of you. Served hot, wrapped in newspaper. Street food is the people's food, it removes the mystery of the kitchen, lays the process bare. It's also the staple diet of people around the world. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2011/03/we-used-wait-it" title="We Used to Wait For It"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2011/losangeles11h.jpg" alt="We Used to Wait For It" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2011/03/we-used-wait-it" class="u-url" title="We Used to Wait For It">We Used to Wait For It</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2011-03-28T21:50:00">March <span>28, 2011</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Los Angeles</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">California</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="34.04477171337467"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-118.25204621066614"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + When we first came here, there was nothing. Downtown Los Angeles was an empty husk of a place fifteen years ago. Now it's reborn, alive and kicking. Yet there is something in the older buildings, something in the old walls, something lost in the bricks, something in the concrete, the marble. Something you don’t find anymore. Something we need to find again. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2011/01/world-outside" title="The World Outside"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2011/snowh.jpg" alt="The World Outside" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2011/01/world-outside" class="u-url" title="The World Outside">The World Outside</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2011-01-26T11:56:00">January <span>26, 2011</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Athens</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Georgia</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.96016249314553"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-83.4028816107045"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The world outside the house is blanketed in snow, a monochrome of white interrupted only by the dark, wet trunks of trees, the red brick of chimneys, the occasional green of shrubs poking through. The roads are unbroken expanses of smooth white, no one is out yet, no footprints track their way through the snowy sidewalk. The world outside is the same as it was last night, before the snow began, and yet, it feels totally different. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2011/01/charleston-a-z" title="Charleston A-Z"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2011/charleston-h_1.jpg" alt="Charleston A-Z" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2011/01/charleston-a-z" class="u-url" title="Charleston A-Z">Charleston A-Z</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2011-01-18T15:29:00">January <span>18, 2011</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Charleston</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">South Carolina</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="32.78595765272612"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-79.9366307147337"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Charleston alphabetically. For example, <strong>Q</strong> is for quiet, Charleston has a lot of it. Just head down to the Battery area, walk through the park and starting walking down the side streets. Take one of the many alleys and walkways that weave between the massive, stately houses. Get lost. It doesn't take much to find a quiet place of your own. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/08/dinosaur-national-monument-part-two-down-river" title="Dinosaur National Monument, Part Two: Down the River"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/lodorecanyonh.jpg" alt="Dinosaur National Monument, Part Two: Down the River" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/08/dinosaur-national-monument-part-two-down-river" class="u-url" title="Dinosaur National Monument, Part Two: Down the River">Dinosaur National Monument, Part Two: Down the River</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-08-02T09:00:00">August <span>2, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Dinosaur National Monument</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Colorado</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="40.457462390627"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-109.2584323730928"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + This is the only real way to see Dinosaur National Monument — you must journey down the river. There are two major rivers running through Dinosaur, the Yampa, which carves through Yampa Canyon, and the Green, which cuts through Lodore. <a href="http://www.adventureboundusa.com/" title="Adventure Bound Rafting">Adventure Bound Rafting</a> runs some of the best whitewater rafting trips in Colorado and I was lucky enough to go down the Green River with them, through the majestic Lodore Canyon. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/07/dinosaur-national-monument-part-one-echo-park" title="Dinosaur National Monument, Part One: Echo Park"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/dinosaurh.jpg" alt="Dinosaur National Monument, Part One: Echo Park" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/07/dinosaur-national-monument-part-one-echo-park" class="u-url" title="Dinosaur National Monument, Part One: Echo Park">Dinosaur National Monument, Part One: Echo Park</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-07-28T17:00:00">July <span>28, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Dinosaur National Monument</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Colorado</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="40.52063402652926"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-108.99388073317648"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Dinosaur National Monument was poorly named. The best parts of it are not the fossils in the quarry (which is closed for 2010 anyway) but the canyon country — some of the best, most remote canyon country you'll find in this part of the world. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/07/endless-crowds-yellowstone" title="The Endless Crowds of Yellowstone"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/yellowstoneh.jpg" alt="The Endless Crowds of Yellowstone" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/07/endless-crowds-yellowstone" class="u-url" title="The Endless Crowds of Yellowstone">The Endless Crowds of Yellowstone</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-07-25T14:00:00">July <span>25, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Yellowstone National Park</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Wyoming</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="44.46180292448713"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-110.82196979172171"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + There is wilderness in Yellowstone, even if it's just inches from the boardwalks that transport thousands around the geothermal pools. It may not be wilderness on a grand scale — the sweeping mountain peaks or wild rivers of other parks — but in some ways that makes it more enticing. As one Ranger told me, Yellowstone isn't about the big picture, the grand scenery, it's about the tiny details within each pool. To really see Yellowstone, he said, you have to take your time, move slowly and look closely. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/07/backpacking-grand-tetons" title="Backpacking in the Grand Tetons"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/grandtetonsh.jpg" alt="Backpacking in the Grand Tetons" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/07/backpacking-grand-tetons" class="u-url" title="Backpacking in the Grand Tetons">Backpacking in the Grand Tetons</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-07-22T17:00:00">July <span>22, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Grand Teton National Park</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Wyoming</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="43.79315431684632"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-110.79651831037907"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Hiking into the wilderness empties your mind. You fall into the silence of the mountains and you can relax in a way that's very difficult to do in the midst of civilization. The white noise that surrounds us in our everyday lives, that noise we don't even notice as it adds thin layers of stress that build up over days, weeks, years, does not seem capable of following us into the mountains. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/07/great-sand-dunes-national-park" title="Great Sand Dunes National Park"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/greatsanddunesh_4.jpg" alt="Great Sand Dunes National Park" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/07/great-sand-dunes-national-park" class="u-url" title="Great Sand Dunes National Park">Great Sand Dunes National Park</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-07-17T09:00:00">July <span>17, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Great Sand Dunes National Park</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Colorado</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="37.72673718028319"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-105.55097578487117"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Something about the desert inspires me to get up early and watch the sunrise. The cool mornings seem worth getting up for out here in the high plains of Colorado, especially when there's the chance to watch the sunrise from the largest sand dunes in North America, here in Great Sand Dune National Park. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/07/comanche-national-grasslands" title="Comanche National Grasslands"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/comanchenationalgrasslands.jpg" alt="Comanche National Grasslands" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/07/comanche-national-grasslands" class="u-url" title="Comanche National Grasslands">Comanche National Grasslands</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-07-16T13:00:00">July <span>16, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Comanche National Grasslands</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Colorado</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="37.14748995999048"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-103.0095720147769"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + To say the Comanche National Grasslands is off the grid would be an understatement. With the exception of Highway 50 in Nevada, I've never driven through such isolation and vast openness anywhere in the world. And it's easy to get lost. There are no signs, no road names even, just dirt paths crisscrossing a wide, perfectly flat expanses of grass. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/07/why-national-parks-are-better-state-parks" title="Why National Parks Are Better Than State Parks"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/palodura.jpg" alt="Why National Parks Are Better Than State Parks" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/07/why-national-parks-are-better-state-parks" class="u-url" title="Why National Parks Are Better Than State Parks">Why National Parks Are Better Than State Parks</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-07-15T10:00:00">July <span>15, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Amarillo</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Texas</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="35.18854030957816"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-101.9194793559329"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + There are many reasons, but here's the one I currently consider most important: National Parks never close. Take Palo Dura State park outside of Amarillo, Texas. Were it a National Park, I would be there right now. But it's not, it's a state park and so I'm sitting in a hotel room in Amarillo because everyone knows nature closes at 10PM. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/07/legend-billy-the-kid" title="The Legend of Billy the Kid"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/billythekidmuseum.jpg" alt="The Legend of Billy the Kid" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/07/legend-billy-the-kid" class="u-url" title="The Legend of Billy the Kid">The Legend of Billy the Kid</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-07-11T18:00:00">July <span>11, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Hico</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Texas</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="31.981920692582488"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-98.03087709969479"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + History rarely offers neat, tidy stories. But the messier, more confusing and more controversial the story becomes, the more it works its way into our imaginations. The legend of Billy the Kid is like that of Amelia Earhart or D.B. Cooper — the less we know for sure, the more compelling the story becomes. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/07/dixie-drug-store" title="The Dixie Drug Store"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/nopharmacymuseum01.jpg" alt="The Dixie Drug Store" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/07/dixie-drug-store" class="u-url" title="The Dixie Drug Store">The Dixie Drug Store</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-07-08T17:00:00">July <span>8, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">New Orleans</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Louisiana</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="29.955903613807074"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-90.06511865792525"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + New Orleans is it's own world. So much so that's it's impossible to put your finger on what it is that makes it different. New Orleans is a place where the line between consensus reality and private dream seems to have never fully developed. And a wonderful world it is. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/07/begin-the-begin" title="Begin the Begin"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/gulf_port_beach.jpg" alt="Begin the Begin" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/07/begin-the-begin" class="u-url" title="Begin the Begin">Begin the Begin</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-07-05T22:00:00">July <span>5, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Gulf Port</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Mississippi</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="30.380400296597216"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-89.03081058216594"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + It's travel time again. This time I'm driving my 1969 Ford truck out west, to Texas, Colorado, Utah and more — a road trip around the western United States. The first stop is Gulf Port, Mississippi. It's hard to believe, sitting here on the deserted beaches of Gulf Shore, watching the sun break through the ominous clouds, but soon this beauty will be gone. The BP oil spill is somewhere out there, blown slowly ashore by the storm hovering over us, waiting to drown the beaches in crude. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/05/los-angeles-im-yours" title="Los Angeles, I'm Yours"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/launionsubway.jpg" alt="Los Angeles, I'm Yours" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/05/los-angeles-im-yours" class="u-url" title="Los Angeles, I'm Yours">Los Angeles, I’m Yours</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-05-17T16:43:18">May <span>17, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Los Angeles</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">California</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="34.05582387432624"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-118.23588250455148"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Los Angeles is all about the car. Shiny, air-conditioned comfort, gliding you soundlessly from one place to another without the need to interact with anything in between. But I have discovered that if you abandon the car for the subway and your own two feet, the illusion that L.A. is just a model train set world — tiny, plastic and devoid of any ground beneath the ground — fades and you find yourself, for a time, in a real city. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/04/death-valley" title="(There'll Be) Peace in the Valley"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/deathvalley.jpg" alt="(There'll Be) Peace in the Valley" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/04/death-valley" class="u-url" title="(There'll Be) Peace in the Valley">(There’ll Be) Peace in the Valley</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-04-24T11:45:59">April <span>24, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Death Valley</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">California</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="36.42090257717807"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-116.80985925955854"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Sometimes you ignore the places close to home because, well, there's always next weekend. Which is why I never made it Death Valley in the twenty-five years I lived in California. It took being all the way across the country to get me out to Death Valley. Which might explain why I actually got up before dawn just to watch the sunrise at Zabriskie Point. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/03/so-far-i-have-not-found-science" title="So Far, I Have Not Found The Science"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/okeefenokee.jpg" alt="So Far, I Have Not Found The Science" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/03/so-far-i-have-not-found-science" class="u-url" title="So Far, I Have Not Found The Science">So Far, I Have Not Found The Science</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-03-13T12:50:48">March <span>13, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Okefenokee Swamp</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Georgia</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="30.913415518451895"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-82.1832228795993"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + A canoe trip through the Okefenokee Swamp down in the southern most corner of Georgia. Paddling the strange reddish and incredibly still waters. Begging alligators, aching muscles and the kindly folks of Stintson's Barbecue all getting their due. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2009/05/how-to-get-your-butt-and-travel-world" title="How to Get Off Your Butt and Travel the World"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2009/traveltheworld.jpg" alt="How to Get Off Your Butt and Travel the World" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2009/05/how-to-get-your-butt-and-travel-world" class="u-url" title="How to Get Off Your Butt and Travel the World">How to Get Off Your Butt and Travel the World</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2009-05-03T19:39:16">May <span>3, 2009</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Athens</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Georgia</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.95763520280544"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-83.40871809752001"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + How do you make the leap from cubicle daydreams to life on to the road? You want to travel the world, but, like me, you have a million excuses stopping you. How do overcome the inertia that keeps you trapped in a life that isn't what you want it to be? Here's a few practical tips and how tos designed to motivate you to get off your butt and travel the world. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2009/04/strangers-on-a-train" title="No Strangers on a Train"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2009/strangersonatrain.jpg" alt="No Strangers on a Train" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2009/04/strangers-on-a-train" class="u-url" title="No Strangers on a Train">No Strangers on a Train</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2009-04-13T19:36:13">April <span>13, 2009</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Athens</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Georgia</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.95818694160937"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-83.40824602873336"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + We mythologize trains because they harken back to an age of community travel, a real, tangible community of travelers, not just backpackers, but people from all walks of life, people traveling near and far together in a shared space that isn't locked down like an airplane and isn't isolated like a car; it's a shared travel experience and there are precious few of those left in our world. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2008/12/leonardo-da-vinci-and-codex-bunnies" title="Leonardo Da Vinci and the Codex on Bunnies"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2009/codexofbunnies.jpg" alt="Leonardo Da Vinci and the Codex on Bunnies" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2008/12/leonardo-da-vinci-and-codex-bunnies" class="u-url" title="Leonardo Da Vinci and the Codex on Bunnies">Leonardo Da Vinci and the Codex on Bunnies</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2008-12-09T18:18:33">December <span>9, 2008</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Birmingham</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Alabama</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.521441993672646"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-86.81079982502803"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + A few pages from Leonardo Da Vinci's notebooks make a rare trip outside Italy, to Birmingham, AL, of all places. But the Birmingham Museum of Art is home to far more alarming works of art, works which depict the eventual, inevitable, bunny takeover, after which all the elements of our reality will be replaced by bunnies. Seriously. 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post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Great Smoky Mountains</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Tennessee</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="35.680446234758236"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-83.65024565485956"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Pigeon Forge is Myrtle Beach in the mountains. Redneck weddings cascade straight out of the chapel and into the mini golf reception area. Pigeon Forge is everything that's wrong with America. But we aren't here for Pigeon Forge, it just happens to have a free condo we're staying in. We're here for the mountains. Smoky Mountain National Park is just a few miles up the road. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2008/07/rope-swings-and-river-floats" title="Rope Swings and River Floats"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/chestateeriver.jpg" alt="Rope Swings and River Floats" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2008/07/rope-swings-and-river-floats" class="u-url" title="Rope Swings and River Floats">Rope Swings and River Floats</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2008-07-27T20:14:49">July <span>27, 2008</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Mountain Cabin</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Georgia</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="34.53463159921271"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-83.90280245566663"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Two weekends ago we went up to the mountains, just outside of Dahlonega GA, and floated the Chestatee River using inner tubes, various pool toys and one super-cool inflatable seahorse. Unfortunately, proving one of my travel mottos -- you can never go back -- a return trip proved disastrous. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2008/06/love-with-a-view-vagabonds-responsibilty-living-we" title="In Love With a View: Vagabonds, Responsibilty and Living Well"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/wrong.jpg" alt="In Love With a View: Vagabonds, Responsibilty and Living Well" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2008/06/love-with-a-view-vagabonds-responsibilty-living-we" class="u-url" title="In Love With a View: Vagabonds, Responsibilty and Living Well">In Love With a View: Vagabonds, Responsibilty and Living Well</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2008-06-07T14:45:29">June <span>7, 2008</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Athens</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Georgia</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.944877470043906"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-83.38860689432926"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Why all the vitriol about a seemingly innocuous concept -- that traveling doesn't have to cost a lot of money, isn't all that difficult and hey, you can even go right now? People like us, who feel tied down by responsibility, find the suggestion that we actually aren't tied down patronizing and yes, elitist. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2007/11/fall" title="Fall"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/fall.jpg" alt="Fall" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2007/11/fall" class="u-url" title="Fall">Fall</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2007-11-14T02:25:17">November <span>14, 2007</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Athens</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Georgia</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.9448641194789"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-83.38856934340312"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The trees are in full technicolor swing. The land is slowly dying, and not just because it's Fall, we're also in the middle of a prolonged drought and this year the leaves are opting for a James Dean-style, leave-a-good-looking-corpse exit. If you're a leaf and you've got to go, do it with class. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2007/07/other-ocean" title="On The Other Ocean"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/sailing.jpg" alt="On The Other Ocean" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2007/07/other-ocean" class="u-url" title="On The Other Ocean">On The Other Ocean</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2007-07-23T11:24:44">July <span>23, 2007</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Catalina Island</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">California</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.46191438592164"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-118.52130172987002"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Consider what would happen if your house were tilted 30 degrees to the left, how this would complicate ordinary activities -- like say walking. Now throw in a bouncing motion that lifts the floor five or six feet up and down in a seesaw-like motion on a perpendicular axis to the 30 degree tilt -- things become more like riding a seesaw that's attached to a merry-go-round which is missing a few bolts. That's sailing. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2007/06/being-there" title="Being There"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/myrtlebeachcrap.jpg" alt="Being There" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2007/06/being-there" class="u-url" title="Being There">Being There</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2007-06-17T02:18:54">June <span>17, 2007</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Myrtle Beach Airport</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">South Carolina</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.683925130931456"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-78.92835615966725"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Myrtle Beach does not exist. Nearly everything in Myrtle Beach is a paltry derivative of some original form. For instance, most of the country has golf courses, in Myrtle Beach there are endless rows of putt-putt courses, where most towns attempt to draw in big name musical acts for their tourist venues, Myrtle Beach is content with impersonators. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2007/06/sailing-through" title="Sailing Through"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/charlestonships.jpg" alt="Sailing Through" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2007/06/sailing-through" class="u-url" title="Sailing Through">Sailing Through</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2007-06-15T00:15:43">June <span>15, 2007</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Charleston</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">South Carolina</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="32.835570335240995"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-79.82256172976372"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The rumors are true. I moved back to the south; Athens GA to be exact. But I hate staying in one place for too long, so after a month or two in Athens I headed up to Charleston to visit a friend. The south is curious place. If you've never been here I couldn't hope to explain it, but it's not so much a place as an approach. A way of getting somewhere more than anywhere specific. Perhaps even a wrong turn.
+ + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2007/03/goodbye-mother-and-cove" title="Goodbye to the Mother and the Cove"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/lacloud.jpg" alt="Goodbye to the Mother and the Cove" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2007/03/goodbye-mother-and-cove" class="u-url" title="Goodbye to the Mother and the Cove">Goodbye to the Mother and the Cove</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2007-03-01T11:15:10">March <span>1, 2007</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Los Angeles</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">California</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="34.040907225218874"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-118.47207783003557"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + It's strange how you can plan something, go through all the motions of making it happen without ever really understanding what you're doing. I've been doing this for the better part of three years now. I realized recently that I have no real idea how I came to be here.
+ + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2007/02/everything-all-time" title="Everything All The Time"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/end.jpg" alt="Everything All The Time" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2007/02/everything-all-time" class="u-url" title="Everything All The Time">Everything All The Time</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2007-02-03T11:14:13">February <span>3, 2007</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Los Angeles</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">California</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.97530686407635"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-118.42890499373785"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + I don't know if I'm just overly paranoid but when I call up memories in the dark hours of the Beaujolais-soaked pre-dawn, I see a collection of mildly amusing, occasionally painful series of embarrassments, misunderstandings and general wrong-place, wrong-time sort of moments. Which isn't to imply that my life is a British sitcom, just that I'm not in a hurry to re-live any of it. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2007/01/sun-came-no-conclusions" title="The Sun Came Up With No Conclusions"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/illuminatus.jpg" alt="The Sun Came Up With No Conclusions" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2007/01/sun-came-no-conclusions" class="u-url" title="The Sun Came Up With No Conclusions">The Sun Came Up With No Conclusions</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2007-01-11T18:11:30">January <span>11, 2007</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Los Angeles</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">California</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.97517340607632"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-118.42887280722941"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + "And so it is that we, as men, do not exist until we do; and then it is that we play with our world of existent things, and order and disorder them, and so it shall be that non-existence shall take us back from existence and that nameless spirituality shall return to Void, like a tired child home from a very wild circus." -- Robert Anton Wilson and Kerry Thornley. Good luck and Godspeed Mr. Wilson. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/12/give-it-or-turnit-loose" title="Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/jamesbrown.jpg" alt="Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/12/give-it-or-turnit-loose" class="u-url" title="Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose">Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-12-25T19:10:49">December <span>25, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Los Angeles</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">California</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.97519564909091"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-118.42893718024602"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Traveling soul. Soul is not something out there or in you, it's the place where you meet the out there; something very similar to what I think James Brown meant — a mixture of the secular and the spiritual, the profane and the sublime. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/06/homeward" title="Homeward"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/trappedmoth.jpg" alt="Homeward" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/06/homeward" class="u-url" title="Homeward">Homeward</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-06-09T11:05:34">June <span>9, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Los Angeles</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">California</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.975160060264834"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-118.42903373977045"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + New York, New York. John F Kennedy airport 1 am date unknown, sleepy looking customs guard stamps a passport without hardly looking at, without even checking to see where I had been. A light drizzle is falling outside and the subways extension to the terminal never looked so good. What is it like to be home? I don't know, I'll tell you when I get there. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/10/twenty-more-minutes-go" title="Twenty More Minutes to Go"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/heretogo.jpg" alt="Twenty More Minutes to Go" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/10/twenty-more-minutes-go" class="u-url" title="Twenty More Minutes to Go">Twenty More Minutes to Go</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-10-20T18:19:10">October <span>20, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Newport Beach</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">California</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.63332664528318"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-117.90302036551485"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Well it's the night before I leave. I just got done pacing around the driveway of my parents house smoking cigarettes… nervously? Excitedly? Restlessly? A bit of all of those I suppose. I walk across the street, over the drainage ditch and head for the swing set at the park. Right now I'm swinging in a park in Costa Mesa California. Tomorrow France. Weird. [Photo to the right, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/scarin/53961434/">via Flickr</a>] + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/10/tips-and-resources" title="Travel Tips and Resources"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/travelgear.jpg" alt="Travel Tips and Resources" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/10/tips-and-resources" class="u-url" title="Travel Tips and Resources">Travel Tips and Resources</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-10-19T18:14:56">October <span>19, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Newport Beach</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">California</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.632093907236325"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-117.90123937872937"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + An overview of the things you might want to bring on an extended trip, as well as some tips and recommendations on things like visas and vaccinations. The part that was most helpful for me was learning what I <em>didn't</em> need to bring — as it turns out, quite a bit. Nowadays my pack is much smaller and lighter. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/10/new-luddites" title="The New Luddites"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/books.jpg" alt="The New Luddites" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/10/new-luddites" class="u-url" title="The New Luddites">The New Luddites</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-10-08T18:17:45">October <span>8, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Newport Beach</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">California</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.632147504909575"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-117.90106771735248"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + An older, non-travel piece about Google's plan to scan all the world's books and Luddite-like response from many authors. Let's see, someone wants to make your book easier to find, searchable and indexable and you're opposed to it? You're a fucking idiot. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/03/one-nation-under-groove" title="One Nation Under a Groove"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/ipod.jpg" alt="One Nation Under a Groove" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/03/one-nation-under-groove" class="u-url" title="One Nation Under a Groove">One Nation Under a Groove</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-03-25T18:12:59">March <span>25, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Northampton</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Massachusetts</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="42.32254049078504"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-72.62804030361058"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The sky is falling! The iPod! It's ruining our culture! Or, uh, maybe it's just like the Walkman, but better. And since, so far as I can tell, the world did not collapse with the introduction of the Walkman and headphones, it probably isn't going to fall apart just because the storage format for our music has changed. [Photo to the right via <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/rogpool/2960735485/">Flickr</a>] + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/02/farewell-mr-hunter-s-thompson" title="Farewell Mr. Hunter S Thompson"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/thompson.jpg" alt="Farewell Mr. Hunter S Thompson" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/02/farewell-mr-hunter-s-thompson" class="u-url" title="Farewell Mr. Hunter S Thompson">Farewell Mr. Hunter S Thompson</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-02-24T18:11:10">February <span>24, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Northampton</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Massachusetts</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="42.322635681187286"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-72.62795447292216"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Hunter S. Thompson departs on a journey to the western lands. Thompson's <em>Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas</em> delivered the penultimate eulogy for the dreams of the 1960's, one that mourned, but also tried to lay the empty idealism to rest. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2004/10/art-essay" title="The Art of the Essay"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/essay.jpg" alt="The Art of the Essay" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2004/10/art-essay" class="u-url" title="The Art of the Essay">The Art of the Essay</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2004-10-10T18:03:13">October <span>10, 2004</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Northampton</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Massachusetts</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="42.322477030437234"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-72.62834071102037"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + I generally ignore internet debates, they never go anywhere, so why bother. But we all have our weak points and when programmer Paul Graham posted what might be the dumbest essay on writing that's ever been written, I just couldn't help myuself. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2003/09/farewell-mr-cash" title="Farewell Mr. Cash"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/cash.jpg" alt="Farewell Mr. Cash" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2003/09/farewell-mr-cash" class="u-url" title="Farewell Mr. Cash">Farewell Mr. Cash</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2003-09-12T22:54:50">September <span>12, 2003</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Northampton</span>, <a 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post--title"><a href="/2013/05/oysterman-wanted" class="u-url" title="Oysterman Wanted">Oysterman Wanted</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2013-05-29T19:43:23">May <span>29, 2013</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">St. George Island</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Florida</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="29.664094724906786"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-84.86566792845446"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The world of oystermen and local fishing industry is doomed. Even the people resisting the transition know they’re no longer fighting for their way of life. They’re just fighting to keep the thinnest resemblance of what they’ve always known around until they leave this world. They’re fighting to keep from having to watch the death of everything they know. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2013/05/all-the-pretty-beaches" title="All the Pretty Beaches"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2013/stgeorgeisland_1.jpg" alt="All the Pretty Beaches" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2013/05/all-the-pretty-beaches" class="u-url" title="All the Pretty Beaches">All the Pretty Beaches</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2013-05-26T22:43:23">May <span>26, 2013</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">St. George Island</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Florida</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="29.65981806259071"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-84.87047444700387"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + St. George is just off the Gulf Coast of northwest Florida, only about 7 hours from where I live. There are better places if you're looking to dive or snorkel. Ditto if it's nightlife you're after. But if you're looking for a seemingly endless amount of gorgeous white sand beaches you'll share with only a few migratory birds, St. George is the place to be. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2013/05/consider-the-apalachicola-oyster" title="Consider the Apalachicola Oyster"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2013/considertheoyster.jpg" alt="Consider the Apalachicola Oyster" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2013/05/consider-the-apalachicola-oyster" class="u-url" title="Consider the Apalachicola Oyster">Consider the Apalachicola Oyster</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2013-05-22T19:43:23">May <span>22, 2013</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Apalachicola</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Florida</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="29.72867205648089"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-84.98378973124662"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + If you know the name Apalachicola at all it’s likely because of its eponymous oysters. Very few things, let alone culinary things, are as attached to place as oysters. In fact, once you get beyond the Rockefeller, ordering “oysters” is akin to walking in a bar and ordering “a beer.” But unlike beer, oysters don’t have brands, they have places — Pemaquid, Wellfleet, Blue Point, Apalachicola. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2012/05/things-behind-sun" title="Things Behind the Sun"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2012/tucsonblur.jpg" alt="Things Behind the Sun" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2012/05/things-behind-sun" class="u-url" title="Things Behind the Sun">Things Behind the Sun</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2012-05-20T22:47:00">May <span>20, 2012</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Athens</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Georgia</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.95674257719642"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-83.37592612645985"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + My grandparents left the home they lived in for 60 years today. I don't know how much of my life was spent in that house, probably well over a year if you added up all the holidays and family gatherings. And now I'm thousands of miles away and someone is clearing out the house. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2012/03/street-food-athens-georgia" title="Street Food in Athens Georgia"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2012/foodcart1.jpg" alt="Street Food in Athens Georgia" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2012/03/street-food-athens-georgia" class="u-url" title="Street Food in Athens Georgia">Street Food in Athens Georgia</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2012-03-31T21:56:00">March <span>31, 2012</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Athens</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Georgia</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.959861666904274"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-83.37601195713451"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Cheap food, made fresh, in front of you. Served hot, wrapped in newspaper. Street food is the people's food, it removes the mystery of the kitchen, lays the process bare. It's also the staple diet of people around the world. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2011/03/we-used-wait-it" title="We Used to Wait For It"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2011/losangeles11h.jpg" alt="We Used to Wait For It" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2011/03/we-used-wait-it" class="u-url" title="We Used to Wait For It">We Used to Wait For It</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2011-03-28T21:50:00">March <span>28, 2011</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Los Angeles</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">California</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="34.04477171337467"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-118.25204621066614"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + When we first came here, there was nothing. Downtown Los Angeles was an empty husk of a place fifteen years ago. Now it's reborn, alive and kicking. Yet there is something in the older buildings, something in the old walls, something lost in the bricks, something in the concrete, the marble. Something you don’t find anymore. Something we need to find again. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2011/01/world-outside" title="The World Outside"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2011/snowh.jpg" alt="The World Outside" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2011/01/world-outside" class="u-url" title="The World Outside">The World Outside</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2011-01-26T11:56:00">January <span>26, 2011</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Athens</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Georgia</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.96016249314553"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-83.4028816107045"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The world outside the house is blanketed in snow, a monochrome of white interrupted only by the dark, wet trunks of trees, the red brick of chimneys, the occasional green of shrubs poking through. The roads are unbroken expanses of smooth white, no one is out yet, no footprints track their way through the snowy sidewalk. The world outside is the same as it was last night, before the snow began, and yet, it feels totally different. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2011/01/charleston-a-z" title="Charleston A-Z"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2011/charleston-h_1.jpg" alt="Charleston A-Z" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2011/01/charleston-a-z" class="u-url" title="Charleston A-Z">Charleston A-Z</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2011-01-18T15:29:00">January <span>18, 2011</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Charleston</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">South Carolina</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="32.78595765272612"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-79.9366307147337"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Charleston alphabetically. For example, <strong>Q</strong> is for quiet, Charleston has a lot of it. Just head down to the Battery area, walk through the park and starting walking down the side streets. Take one of the many alleys and walkways that weave between the massive, stately houses. Get lost. It doesn't take much to find a quiet place of your own. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/08/dinosaur-national-monument-part-two-down-river" title="Dinosaur National Monument, Part Two: Down the River"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/lodorecanyonh.jpg" alt="Dinosaur National Monument, Part Two: Down the River" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/08/dinosaur-national-monument-part-two-down-river" class="u-url" title="Dinosaur National Monument, Part Two: Down the River">Dinosaur National Monument, Part Two: Down the River</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-08-02T09:00:00">August <span>2, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Dinosaur National Monument</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Colorado</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="40.457462390627"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-109.2584323730928"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + This is the only real way to see Dinosaur National Monument — you must journey down the river. There are two major rivers running through Dinosaur, the Yampa, which carves through Yampa Canyon, and the Green, which cuts through Lodore. <a href="http://www.adventureboundusa.com/" title="Adventure Bound Rafting">Adventure Bound Rafting</a> runs some of the best whitewater rafting trips in Colorado and I was lucky enough to go down the Green River with them, through the majestic Lodore Canyon. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/07/dinosaur-national-monument-part-one-echo-park" title="Dinosaur National Monument, Part One: Echo Park"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/dinosaurh.jpg" alt="Dinosaur National Monument, Part One: Echo Park" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/07/dinosaur-national-monument-part-one-echo-park" class="u-url" title="Dinosaur National Monument, Part One: Echo Park">Dinosaur National Monument, Part One: Echo Park</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-07-28T17:00:00">July <span>28, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Dinosaur National Monument</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Colorado</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="40.52063402652926"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-108.99388073317648"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Dinosaur National Monument was poorly named. The best parts of it are not the fossils in the quarry (which is closed for 2010 anyway) but the canyon country — some of the best, most remote canyon country you'll find in this part of the world. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/07/endless-crowds-yellowstone" title="The Endless Crowds of Yellowstone"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/yellowstoneh.jpg" alt="The Endless Crowds of Yellowstone" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/07/endless-crowds-yellowstone" class="u-url" title="The Endless Crowds of Yellowstone">The Endless Crowds of Yellowstone</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-07-25T14:00:00">July <span>25, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Yellowstone National Park</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Wyoming</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="44.46180292448713"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-110.82196979172171"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + There is wilderness in Yellowstone, even if it's just inches from the boardwalks that transport thousands around the geothermal pools. It may not be wilderness on a grand scale — the sweeping mountain peaks or wild rivers of other parks — but in some ways that makes it more enticing. As one Ranger told me, Yellowstone isn't about the big picture, the grand scenery, it's about the tiny details within each pool. To really see Yellowstone, he said, you have to take your time, move slowly and look closely. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/07/backpacking-grand-tetons" title="Backpacking in the Grand Tetons"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/grandtetonsh.jpg" alt="Backpacking in the Grand Tetons" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/07/backpacking-grand-tetons" class="u-url" title="Backpacking in the Grand Tetons">Backpacking in the Grand Tetons</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-07-22T17:00:00">July <span>22, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Grand Teton National Park</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Wyoming</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="43.79315431684632"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-110.79651831037907"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Hiking into the wilderness empties your mind. You fall into the silence of the mountains and you can relax in a way that's very difficult to do in the midst of civilization. The white noise that surrounds us in our everyday lives, that noise we don't even notice as it adds thin layers of stress that build up over days, weeks, years, does not seem capable of following us into the mountains. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/07/great-sand-dunes-national-park" title="Great Sand Dunes National Park"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/greatsanddunesh_4.jpg" alt="Great Sand Dunes National Park" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/07/great-sand-dunes-national-park" class="u-url" title="Great Sand Dunes National Park">Great Sand Dunes National Park</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-07-17T09:00:00">July <span>17, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Great Sand Dunes National Park</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Colorado</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="37.72673718028319"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-105.55097578487117"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Something about the desert inspires me to get up early and watch the sunrise. The cool mornings seem worth getting up for out here in the high plains of Colorado, especially when there's the chance to watch the sunrise from the largest sand dunes in North America, here in Great Sand Dune National Park. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/07/comanche-national-grasslands" title="Comanche National Grasslands"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/comanchenationalgrasslands.jpg" alt="Comanche National Grasslands" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/07/comanche-national-grasslands" class="u-url" title="Comanche National Grasslands">Comanche National Grasslands</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-07-16T13:00:00">July <span>16, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Comanche National Grasslands</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Colorado</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="37.14748995999048"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-103.0095720147769"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + To say the Comanche National Grasslands is off the grid would be an understatement. With the exception of Highway 50 in Nevada, I've never driven through such isolation and vast openness anywhere in the world. And it's easy to get lost. There are no signs, no road names even, just dirt paths crisscrossing a wide, perfectly flat expanses of grass. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/07/why-national-parks-are-better-state-parks" title="Why National Parks Are Better Than State Parks"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/palodura.jpg" alt="Why National Parks Are Better Than State Parks" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/07/why-national-parks-are-better-state-parks" class="u-url" title="Why National Parks Are Better Than State Parks">Why National Parks Are Better Than State Parks</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-07-15T10:00:00">July <span>15, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Amarillo</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Texas</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="35.18854030957816"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-101.9194793559329"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + There are many reasons, but here's the one I currently consider most important: National Parks never close. Take Palo Dura State park outside of Amarillo, Texas. Were it a National Park, I would be there right now. But it's not, it's a state park and so I'm sitting in a hotel room in Amarillo because everyone knows nature closes at 10PM. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/07/legend-billy-the-kid" title="The Legend of Billy the Kid"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/billythekidmuseum.jpg" alt="The Legend of Billy the Kid" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/07/legend-billy-the-kid" class="u-url" title="The Legend of Billy the Kid">The Legend of Billy the Kid</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-07-11T18:00:00">July <span>11, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Hico</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Texas</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="31.981920692582488"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-98.03087709969479"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + History rarely offers neat, tidy stories. But the messier, more confusing and more controversial the story becomes, the more it works its way into our imaginations. The legend of Billy the Kid is like that of Amelia Earhart or D.B. Cooper — the less we know for sure, the more compelling the story becomes. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/07/dixie-drug-store" title="The Dixie Drug Store"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/nopharmacymuseum01.jpg" alt="The Dixie Drug Store" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/07/dixie-drug-store" class="u-url" title="The Dixie Drug Store">The Dixie Drug Store</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-07-08T17:00:00">July <span>8, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">New Orleans</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Louisiana</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="29.955903613807074"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-90.06511865792525"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + New Orleans is it's own world. So much so that's it's impossible to put your finger on what it is that makes it different. New Orleans is a place where the line between consensus reality and private dream seems to have never fully developed. And a wonderful world it is. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/07/begin-the-begin" title="Begin the Begin"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/gulf_port_beach.jpg" alt="Begin the Begin" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/07/begin-the-begin" class="u-url" title="Begin the Begin">Begin the Begin</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-07-05T22:00:00">July <span>5, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Gulf Port</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Mississippi</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="30.380400296597216"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-89.03081058216594"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + It's travel time again. This time I'm driving my 1969 Ford truck out west, to Texas, Colorado, Utah and more — a road trip around the western United States. The first stop is Gulf Port, Mississippi. It's hard to believe, sitting here on the deserted beaches of Gulf Shore, watching the sun break through the ominous clouds, but soon this beauty will be gone. The BP oil spill is somewhere out there, blown slowly ashore by the storm hovering over us, waiting to drown the beaches in crude. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/05/los-angeles-im-yours" title="Los Angeles, I'm Yours"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/launionsubway.jpg" alt="Los Angeles, I'm Yours" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/05/los-angeles-im-yours" class="u-url" title="Los Angeles, I'm Yours">Los Angeles, I’m Yours</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-05-17T16:43:18">May <span>17, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Los Angeles</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">California</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="34.05582387432624"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-118.23588250455148"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Los Angeles is all about the car. Shiny, air-conditioned comfort, gliding you soundlessly from one place to another without the need to interact with anything in between. But I have discovered that if you abandon the car for the subway and your own two feet, the illusion that L.A. is just a model train set world — tiny, plastic and devoid of any ground beneath the ground — fades and you find yourself, for a time, in a real city. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/04/death-valley" title="(There'll Be) Peace in the Valley"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/deathvalley.jpg" alt="(There'll Be) Peace in the Valley" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/04/death-valley" class="u-url" title="(There'll Be) Peace in the Valley">(There’ll Be) Peace in the Valley</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-04-24T11:45:59">April <span>24, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Death Valley</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">California</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="36.42090257717807"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-116.80985925955854"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Sometimes you ignore the places close to home because, well, there's always next weekend. Which is why I never made it Death Valley in the twenty-five years I lived in California. It took being all the way across the country to get me out to Death Valley. Which might explain why I actually got up before dawn just to watch the sunrise at Zabriskie Point. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/03/so-far-i-have-not-found-science" title="So Far, I Have Not Found The Science"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/okeefenokee.jpg" alt="So Far, I Have Not Found The Science" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/03/so-far-i-have-not-found-science" class="u-url" title="So Far, I Have Not Found The Science">So Far, I Have Not Found The Science</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-03-13T12:50:48">March <span>13, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Okefenokee Swamp</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Georgia</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="30.913415518451895"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-82.1832228795993"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + A canoe trip through the Okefenokee Swamp down in the southern most corner of Georgia. Paddling the strange reddish and incredibly still waters. Begging alligators, aching muscles and the kindly folks of Stintson's Barbecue all getting their due. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2009/05/how-to-get-your-butt-and-travel-world" title="How to Get Off Your Butt and Travel the World"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2009/traveltheworld.jpg" alt="How to Get Off Your Butt and Travel the World" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2009/05/how-to-get-your-butt-and-travel-world" class="u-url" title="How to Get Off Your Butt and Travel the World">How to Get Off Your Butt and Travel the World</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2009-05-03T19:39:16">May <span>3, 2009</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Athens</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Georgia</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.95763520280544"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-83.40871809752001"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + How do you make the leap from cubicle daydreams to life on to the road? You want to travel the world, but, like me, you have a million excuses stopping you. How do overcome the inertia that keeps you trapped in a life that isn't what you want it to be? Here's a few practical tips and how tos designed to motivate you to get off your butt and travel the world. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2009/04/strangers-on-a-train" title="No Strangers on a Train"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2009/strangersonatrain.jpg" alt="No Strangers on a Train" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2009/04/strangers-on-a-train" class="u-url" title="No Strangers on a Train">No Strangers on a Train</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2009-04-13T19:36:13">April <span>13, 2009</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Athens</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Georgia</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.95818694160937"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-83.40824602873336"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + We mythologize trains because they harken back to an age of community travel, a real, tangible community of travelers, not just backpackers, but people from all walks of life, people traveling near and far together in a shared space that isn't locked down like an airplane and isn't isolated like a car; it's a shared travel experience and there are precious few of those left in our world. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2008/12/leonardo-da-vinci-and-codex-bunnies" title="Leonardo Da Vinci and the Codex on Bunnies"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2009/codexofbunnies.jpg" alt="Leonardo Da Vinci and the Codex on Bunnies" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2008/12/leonardo-da-vinci-and-codex-bunnies" class="u-url" title="Leonardo Da Vinci and the Codex on Bunnies">Leonardo Da Vinci and the Codex on Bunnies</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2008-12-09T18:18:33">December <span>9, 2008</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Birmingham</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Alabama</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.521441993672646"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-86.81079982502803"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + A few pages from Leonardo Da Vinci's notebooks make a rare trip outside Italy, to Birmingham, AL, of all places. 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itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="98.53981016694692"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Headed back to Europe: I started to write a bit of reminiscence, trying to remember the highlights of my time in Asia before I return to the west, but about halfway through I kept thinking of a popular Buddhist saying — be here now. Most of these dispatches are written in past tense, but this time I want to simply be here now. This moment, on this train. This is the last time I'll post something from Southeast Asia. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/04/beginning-end" title="Beginning of the End"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/kokradan.jpg" alt="Beginning of the End" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/04/beginning-end" class="u-url" title="Beginning of the End">Beginning of the End</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-04-22T00:11:20">April <span>22, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Koh Kradan</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/thailand/" title="travel writing from Thailand">Thailand</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="7.4090692758064645"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="99.207916245987"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + I wasn't expecting much from Ko Kradan, but in the end I discovered a slice of Thailand the way it's often describe by wistful hippies who first came here twenty years ago. Tong and Ngu and the rest of the Thais working at Paradise Lost were the nicest people I met in Thailand and Wally was by far the most laid back farang I've come across. I ended up staying on Ko Kradan for the remainder of my time in the south.
+ + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/04/going-down-south" title="Going Down South"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/kophiphi.jpg" alt="Going Down South" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/04/going-down-south" class="u-url" title="Going Down South">Going Down South</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-04-11T00:10:50">April <span>11, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Koh Phi Phi</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/thailand/" title="travel writing from Thailand">Thailand</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="7.735826857017756"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="98.77876280363327"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The Phi Phi Island Resort, where some friends were staying, is nestled on the leeward shore of Koh Phi Phi Island and posts a private beach, beautiful reef, fancy swimming pools and rooms with real sheets. Unheard of. I sauntered in a day early, acted like I owned the place, rented snorkel gear, charged it to a random room number and spent the afternoon on the reef. If only I could have put it on the Underhill's credit card. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/03/book-right" title="The Book of Right On"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/goodbyes.jpg" alt="The Book of Right On" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/03/book-right" class="u-url" title="The Book of Right On">The Book of Right On</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-03-31T00:01:02">March <span>31, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Sinoukville</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/cambodia/" title="travel writing from Cambodia">Cambodia</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="10.626275865572227"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="103.49945066918632"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The next day we continued on to Sinoukville which is Cambodia's attempt at a seaside resort. Combining the essential elements of Goa and Thailand, Sinoukville is a pleasant, if somewhat hippy-oriented, travelers haven. We rented Honda Dreams and cruised down the coast to deserted white sand beaches, thatched huts serving noodles and rice, where we watched sunsets and dodged rain storms. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/03/midnight-perfect-world" title="Midnight in a Perfect World"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/deathisland.jpg" alt="Midnight in a Perfect World" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/03/midnight-perfect-world" class="u-url" title="Midnight in a Perfect World">Midnight in a Perfect World</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-03-26T23:58:12">March <span>26, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Death Island</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/cambodia/" title="travel writing from Cambodia">Cambodia</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="10.438267017137903"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="104.32325361706974"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Death Island, as Rob nicknamed it, was just what I needed. The first day we sat down for lunch and ordered crab; a boy in his underwear proceeded to run out of the kitchen, swam out in the ocean and began unloading crabs from a trap into a bucket. It doesn't get much fresher than that. Throw in a nice beach, some cheap bungalows and you're away. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/03/angkor-wat" title="Angkor Wat"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/angkorwat.jpg" alt="Angkor Wat" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/03/angkor-wat" class="u-url" title="Angkor Wat">Angkor Wat</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-03-21T23:55:50">March <span>21, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Angkor Wat</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/cambodia/" title="travel writing from Cambodia">Cambodia</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="13.497808126788645"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="103.89289854510803"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Roughly half a million people a year visit Angkor Wat. The first evening we decided to see just how tourist-filled Angkor was by heading to the most popular sunset temple, Phnom Bakheng, to watch the sunset. And there were a lot of tourists. Thousands of them. And that was just at one temple. Thus was hatched the plan: see Angkor in the heat of the day. Yes it will be hot. Hot hot hot. Fucking hot. But hopefully empty. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/03/wait-til-it-blows" title="...Wait 'til it Blows"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/landmines.jpg" alt="...Wait 'til it Blows" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/03/wait-til-it-blows" class="u-url" title="...Wait 'til it Blows">…Wait ‘til it Blows</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-03-18T23:52:55">March <span>18, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Seam Reap</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/cambodia/" title="travel writing from Cambodia">Cambodia</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="13.361228724078332"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="103.86148451313011"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + One the things I may have failed to mention thus far in my Cambodia reportage is that this was/is one of the most heavily mined areas in the world. You might think that removing landmines involves sophisticated technology of the sort you see in BBC documentaries on Bosnia, but here in Cambodia landmine removal is most often handled by the technological marvel of southeast Asia — the bamboo stick. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/03/beginning-see-light" title="Beginning to See the Light"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/floatingvillage.jpg" alt="Beginning to See the Light" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/03/beginning-see-light" class="u-url" title="Beginning to See the Light">Beginning to See the Light</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-03-16T20:45:20">March <span>16, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Floating Village</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/cambodia/" title="travel writing from Cambodia">Cambodia</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="12.821174848475923"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="104.04052732926735"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Surprisingly, a floating village is not that different than a village on the land. There are the same stores, the computer repair shop, the grocers, the petrol station, the temple, the dance hall and all the other things that makeup a town. I could even say with some authority that the town is laid out in streets, watery pathways that form nearly perfect lines. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/03/blood-tracks" title="Blood on the Tracks"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/killingfields.jpg" alt="Blood on the Tracks" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/03/blood-tracks" class="u-url" title="Blood on the Tracks">Blood on the Tracks</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-03-14T23:41:41">March <span>14, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Phenom Phen</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/cambodia/" title="travel writing from Cambodia">Cambodia</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="11.56597559052094"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="104.92750166386062"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + As I mentioned in the last entry I came down with a bit of a fever for a few days. This was accompanied by what we in the group have come to term, for lack of a nicer, but equally descriptive phrase — pissing out the ass. It's not a pretty picture. Nor is it a pleasant experience, and consequently I don't have a real clear recollection of the journey from Ban Lung to Kratie or from Kratie out to Sen Monoron. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/03/ticket-ride" title="Ticket To Ride"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/hondadream.jpg" alt="Ticket To Ride" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/03/ticket-ride" class="u-url" title="Ticket To Ride">Ticket To Ride</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-03-07T23:39:02">March <span>7, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Ban Lung</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/cambodia/" title="travel writing from Cambodia">Cambodia</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="13.734549299840165"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="106.97941301763984"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + I can't see. My eyebrows are orange with dust. I cannot see them, but I know they must be; they were yesterday. Every now and then when her legs clench down on my hips or her fingernails dig into my shoulders, I remember Debi is behind me and I am more or less responsible for not killing both of us. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/02/little-corner-world" title="Little Corner of the World"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/siphondon.jpg" alt="Little Corner of the World" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/02/little-corner-world" class="u-url" title="Little Corner of the World">Little Corner of the World</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-02-28T20:13:00">February <span>28, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Four Thousand Islands</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/laos/" title="travel writing from Lao (PDR)">Lao (PDR)</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="14.130915842740961"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="105.83782194571636"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + It's difficult to explain but the further south you go in Laos the more relaxed life becomes. Since life in the north is not exactly high stress, by the time we arrived in the four thousand Islands we had to check our pulse periodically to ensure that time was in fact still moving forward. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/02/cant-get-there-here" title="Can&#8217;t Get There From Here"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/attapeulight.jpg" alt="Can&#8217;t Get There From Here" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/02/cant-get-there-here" class="u-url" title="Can&#8217;t Get There From Here">Can’t Get There From Here</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-02-24T20:00:03">February <span>24, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Attapeu</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/laos/" title="travel writing from Lao (PDR)">Lao (PDR)</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="14.806085524831946"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="106.83689115944449"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The most magical light in Laos lives on the Bolevan Plateau. For some reason not many tourists seem to make it out to the Bolevan Plateau, in spite of the fact that the roads are quite good, transport runs regularly, the villages peaceful, even sleepy, little hamlets. In short, the Bolevan Plateau is wonderful, and not the least in part because no one else is there. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/02/safe-milk" title="Safe as Milk"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/usbombs.jpg" alt="Safe as Milk" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/02/safe-milk" class="u-url" title="Safe as Milk">Safe as Milk</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-02-18T19:54:24">February <span>18, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Sekong</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/laos/" title="travel writing from Lao (PDR)">Lao (PDR)</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="14.623949505069236"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="106.5756225437582"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + You would think, if you were the United States and you were illegally and unofficially bombing a foreign country you might not want to stamp "US Bomb" on the side of your bombs, and yet there it was all over Laos: "US Bomb." Clearly somebody didn't think things all the way through, especially given that roughly one third of said bombs failed to explode. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/02/everyday-fourteenth" title="Everyday the Fourteenth"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/hinbunriver.jpg" alt="Everyday the Fourteenth" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/02/everyday-fourteenth" class="u-url" title="Everyday the Fourteenth">Everyday the Fourteenth</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-02-14T19:50:35">February <span>14, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Savannakhet</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/laos/" title="travel writing from Lao (PDR)">Lao (PDR)</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="16.560435757136183"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="104.75026129218114"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + We piled four large bags, four daypacks and five people in a six meter dugout canoe. The boat was powered by the ever-present-in-southeast-Asia long tail motor which is essential a lawnmower engine with a three meter pole extending out of it to which a small propeller is attached — perfect for navigating shallow water. And by shallow I mean sometimes a mere inch between the hull and the riverbed. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/02/water-slides-and-spirit-guides" title="Water Slides and Spirit Guides"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/konglorcave.jpg" alt="Water Slides and Spirit Guides" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/02/water-slides-and-spirit-guides" class="u-url" title="Water Slides and Spirit Guides">Water Slides and Spirit Guides</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-02-10T19:47:12">February <span>10, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Konglor Cave</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/laos/" title="travel writing from Lao (PDR)">Lao (PDR)</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="18.06285035750356"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="104.49783323740189"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The dramatic black karst limestone mountains ringing Ban Na Hin grew darker as the light faded. I was sitting alone on the back porch of our guesthouse watching the light slowly disappear from the bottoms of the clouds and wondering absently how many pages it would take to explain how I came to be in the tiny town of Ban Na Hin, or if such an explanation even really existed. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/02/lovely-universe" title="The Lovely Universe"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/vangveing.jpg" alt="The Lovely Universe" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/02/lovely-universe" class="u-url" title="The Lovely Universe">The Lovely Universe</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-02-04T23:43:28">February <span>4, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Vang Vieng</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/laos/" title="travel writing from Lao (PDR)">Lao (PDR)</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="18.92544862065573"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="102.43755339150223"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + I would like to say that I have something memorable to write about Vang Vieng, but the truth is we mostly sat around doing very little, making new friends, drinking a beer around the fire and waiting out the Chinese new year celebrations, which meant none of us could get Cambodian visas until the following Monday. We were forced to relax beside the river for several more days than we intended. Yes friends, traveling is hard, but I do it for you. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/01/i-used-fly-peter-pan" title="I Used to Fly Like Peter Pan"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/gibbonexperience.jpg" alt="I Used to Fly Like Peter Pan" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/01/i-used-fly-peter-pan" class="u-url" title="I Used to Fly Like Peter Pan">I Used to Fly Like Peter Pan</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-01-21T19:42:47">January <span>21, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Luang Nam Tha</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/laos/" title="travel writing from Lao (PDR)">Lao (PDR)</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="20.853678554651314"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="101.19094847224211"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The next time someone asks you, “would you like to live in a tree house and travel five hundred feet above the ground attached to a zip wire?” I highly suggest you say, “yes, where do a I sign up?” If you happen to be in Laos, try the Gibbon Experience. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/01/hymn-big-wheel" title="Hymn of the Big Wheel"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/bluemilkwaterfall.jpg" alt="Hymn of the Big Wheel" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/01/hymn-big-wheel" class="u-url" title="Hymn of the Big Wheel">Hymn of the Big Wheel</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-01-19T19:37:46">January <span>19, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Luang Prabang</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/laos/" title="travel writing from Lao (PDR)">Lao (PDR)</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="19.827433510057354"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="102.42279051308633"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Jose Saramago writes in <cite>The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis</cite> that the gods "journey like us in the river of things, differing from us only because we call them gods and sometimes believe in them." Sitting in the middle of the river listening to the gurgle of water moving over stone and around trees I began to think that perhaps this is the sound of some lost language, a sound capable of creating mountains, valleys, estuaries, isthmuses and all the other forms around us, gurgling and sonorous but without clear meaning, shrouded in turquoise, a mystery through which we can move our sense of wonder intact. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/01/down-river" title="Down the River"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/mekongslowboat.jpg" alt="Down the River" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/01/down-river" class="u-url" title="Down the River">Down the River</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-01-17T20:13:26">January <span>17, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Luang Prabang</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/laos/" title="travel writing from Lao (PDR)">Lao (PDR)</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="19.875064447947235"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="102.13199614056808"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Morning in Chiang Khong Thailand revealed itself as a foggy, and not a little mysterious, affair with the far shore of the Mekong, the Laos shore, almost completely hidden in a veil of mist. The first ferry crossed at eight and I was on it, looking to meet up with the slow boat to Luang Prabang. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/01/king-carrot-flowers" title="The King of Carrot Flowers"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/doiinthanonnp.jpg" alt="The King of Carrot Flowers" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/01/king-carrot-flowers" class="u-url" title="The King of Carrot Flowers">The King of Carrot Flowers</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-01-17T18:53:17">January <span>17, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Doi Inthanan National Park</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/thailand/" title="travel writing from Thailand">Thailand</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="19.315031381446268"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="98.84262083585028"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The light outside the windows was still a pre-dawn inky blue when the freezing cold water hit my back. A cold shower at six thirty in the morning is infinitely more powerful, albeit not at long lasting, as a cup of coffee. After dropping my body temperature a few degrees and having no towel to dry off with, just a dirty shirt and ceaseless ceiling fan, a cup of tea seemed like a good idea so I stopped in at the restaurant downstairs and, after a cup of hot water with some Jasmine leaves swirling at the bottom of it, I climbed on my rental motorbike and set out for Doi Inthanan National Park. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/01/you-and-i-are-disappearing" title="You and I Are Disappearing"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/changmaiumong.jpg" alt="You and I Are Disappearing" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/01/you-and-i-are-disappearing" class="u-url" title="You and I Are Disappearing">You and I Are Disappearing</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-01-12T00:52:30">January <span>12, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Chang Mai</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/thailand/" title="travel writing from Thailand">Thailand</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="18.787042343613653"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="98.9876746993555"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The all night bus reached Chiang Mai well past dawn, the city already beginning to stir. I considered trying to nap, but in the end decided to explore the town. What better way to see Buddhist temples than in the dreamy fog of sleeplessness? Chiang Mai has over three hundred wats within the somewhat sprawling city limits, most of them reasonably modern and, in my opinion, not worth visiting. I narrowed the field to three, which I figured was a nice round one percent.
+ + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/01/buddha-bounty" title="Buddha on the Bounty"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/jimthompsonhouse.jpg" alt="Buddha on the Bounty" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/01/buddha-bounty" class="u-url" title="Buddha on the Bounty">Buddha on the Bounty</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-01-05T18:43:03">January <span>5, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Bangkok</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/thailand/" title="travel writing from Thailand">Thailand</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="13.726128126466529"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="100.547304139446"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The house Jim Thompson left behind in Bangkok is gorgeous, but the real charm is the garden and its orchids. I wandered around the gardens which really aren't that large for some time and then found a bench near a collection of orchids, where I sat for the better part of an hour, occasionally taking a photograph or two, but mostly thinking about how human orchids are. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/01/brink-clouds" title="Brink of the Clouds"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/bangkokfrombaiyoke.jpg" alt="Brink of the Clouds" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/01/brink-clouds" class="u-url" title="Brink of the Clouds">Brink of the Clouds</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-01-03T20:38:27">January <span>3, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Bangkok</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/thailand/" title="travel writing from Thailand">Thailand</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="13.750921779579318"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="100.54314135105552"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + "The city is a cathedral" writes James Salter, "its scent is dreams." Salter may have been referring to New York, but his words ring true in Bangkok. And the best place to feel it at night is on the river or from the top of the Baiyoke Sky Hotel — where a circular, revolving observation deck offers 360° views of the Bangkok nightscape. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/01/are-you-amplified-rock" title="Are You Amplified to Rock?"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/bangkokriver.jpg" alt="Are You Amplified to Rock?" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/01/are-you-amplified-rock" class="u-url" title="Are You Amplified to Rock?">Are You Amplified to Rock?</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-01-01T18:37:48">January <span>1, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Bangkok</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/thailand/" title="travel writing from Thailand">Thailand</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="13.761790973148347"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="100.4934453824343"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + It's a new year, are you amplified to rock? 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href="/writing/thailand/" title="travel writing from Thailand">Thailand</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="7.0586452366957175"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="98.53981016694692"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Headed back to Europe: I started to write a bit of reminiscence, trying to remember the highlights of my time in Asia before I return to the west, but about halfway through I kept thinking of a popular Buddhist saying — be here now. Most of these dispatches are written in past tense, but this time I want to simply be here now. This moment, on this train. This is the last time I'll post something from Southeast Asia. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/04/beginning-end" title="Beginning of the End"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/kokradan.jpg" alt="Beginning of the End" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/04/beginning-end" class="u-url" title="Beginning of the End">Beginning of the End</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-04-22T00:11:20">April <span>22, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Koh Kradan</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/thailand/" title="travel writing from Thailand">Thailand</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="7.4090692758064645"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="99.207916245987"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + I wasn't expecting much from Ko Kradan, but in the end I discovered a slice of Thailand the way it's often describe by wistful hippies who first came here twenty years ago. Tong and Ngu and the rest of the Thais working at Paradise Lost were the nicest people I met in Thailand and Wally was by far the most laid back farang I've come across. I ended up staying on Ko Kradan for the remainder of my time in the south.
+ + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/04/going-down-south" title="Going Down South"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/kophiphi.jpg" alt="Going Down South" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/04/going-down-south" class="u-url" title="Going Down South">Going Down South</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-04-11T00:10:50">April <span>11, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Koh Phi Phi</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/thailand/" title="travel writing from Thailand">Thailand</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="7.735826857017756"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="98.77876280363327"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The Phi Phi Island Resort, where some friends were staying, is nestled on the leeward shore of Koh Phi Phi Island and posts a private beach, beautiful reef, fancy swimming pools and rooms with real sheets. Unheard of. I sauntered in a day early, acted like I owned the place, rented snorkel gear, charged it to a random room number and spent the afternoon on the reef. If only I could have put it on the Underhill's credit card. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/03/book-right" title="The Book of Right On"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/goodbyes.jpg" alt="The Book of Right On" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/03/book-right" class="u-url" title="The Book of Right On">The Book of Right On</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-03-31T00:01:02">March <span>31, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Sinoukville</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/cambodia/" title="travel writing from Cambodia">Cambodia</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="10.626275865572227"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="103.49945066918632"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The next day we continued on to Sinoukville which is Cambodia's attempt at a seaside resort. Combining the essential elements of Goa and Thailand, Sinoukville is a pleasant, if somewhat hippy-oriented, travelers haven. We rented Honda Dreams and cruised down the coast to deserted white sand beaches, thatched huts serving noodles and rice, where we watched sunsets and dodged rain storms. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/03/midnight-perfect-world" title="Midnight in a Perfect World"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/deathisland.jpg" alt="Midnight in a Perfect World" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/03/midnight-perfect-world" class="u-url" title="Midnight in a Perfect World">Midnight in a Perfect World</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-03-26T23:58:12">March <span>26, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Death Island</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/cambodia/" title="travel writing from Cambodia">Cambodia</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="10.438267017137903"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="104.32325361706974"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Death Island, as Rob nicknamed it, was just what I needed. The first day we sat down for lunch and ordered crab; a boy in his underwear proceeded to run out of the kitchen, swam out in the ocean and began unloading crabs from a trap into a bucket. It doesn't get much fresher than that. Throw in a nice beach, some cheap bungalows and you're away. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/03/angkor-wat" title="Angkor Wat"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/angkorwat.jpg" alt="Angkor Wat" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/03/angkor-wat" class="u-url" title="Angkor Wat">Angkor Wat</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-03-21T23:55:50">March <span>21, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Angkor Wat</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/cambodia/" title="travel writing from Cambodia">Cambodia</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="13.497808126788645"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="103.89289854510803"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Roughly half a million people a year visit Angkor Wat. The first evening we decided to see just how tourist-filled Angkor was by heading to the most popular sunset temple, Phnom Bakheng, to watch the sunset. And there were a lot of tourists. Thousands of them. And that was just at one temple. Thus was hatched the plan: see Angkor in the heat of the day. Yes it will be hot. Hot hot hot. Fucking hot. But hopefully empty. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/03/wait-til-it-blows" title="...Wait 'til it Blows"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/landmines.jpg" alt="...Wait 'til it Blows" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/03/wait-til-it-blows" class="u-url" title="...Wait 'til it Blows">…Wait ‘til it Blows</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-03-18T23:52:55">March <span>18, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Seam Reap</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/cambodia/" title="travel writing from Cambodia">Cambodia</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="13.361228724078332"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="103.86148451313011"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + One the things I may have failed to mention thus far in my Cambodia reportage is that this was/is one of the most heavily mined areas in the world. You might think that removing landmines involves sophisticated technology of the sort you see in BBC documentaries on Bosnia, but here in Cambodia landmine removal is most often handled by the technological marvel of southeast Asia — the bamboo stick. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/03/beginning-see-light" title="Beginning to See the Light"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/floatingvillage.jpg" alt="Beginning to See the Light" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/03/beginning-see-light" class="u-url" title="Beginning to See the Light">Beginning to See the Light</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-03-16T20:45:20">March <span>16, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Floating Village</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/cambodia/" title="travel writing from Cambodia">Cambodia</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="12.821174848475923"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="104.04052732926735"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Surprisingly, a floating village is not that different than a village on the land. There are the same stores, the computer repair shop, the grocers, the petrol station, the temple, the dance hall and all the other things that makeup a town. I could even say with some authority that the town is laid out in streets, watery pathways that form nearly perfect lines. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/03/blood-tracks" title="Blood on the Tracks"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/killingfields.jpg" alt="Blood on the Tracks" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/03/blood-tracks" class="u-url" title="Blood on the Tracks">Blood on the Tracks</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-03-14T23:41:41">March <span>14, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Phenom Phen</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/cambodia/" title="travel writing from Cambodia">Cambodia</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="11.56597559052094"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="104.92750166386062"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + As I mentioned in the last entry I came down with a bit of a fever for a few days. This was accompanied by what we in the group have come to term, for lack of a nicer, but equally descriptive phrase — pissing out the ass. It's not a pretty picture. Nor is it a pleasant experience, and consequently I don't have a real clear recollection of the journey from Ban Lung to Kratie or from Kratie out to Sen Monoron. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/03/ticket-ride" title="Ticket To Ride"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/hondadream.jpg" alt="Ticket To Ride" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/03/ticket-ride" class="u-url" title="Ticket To Ride">Ticket To Ride</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-03-07T23:39:02">March <span>7, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Ban Lung</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/cambodia/" title="travel writing from Cambodia">Cambodia</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="13.734549299840165"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="106.97941301763984"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + I can't see. My eyebrows are orange with dust. I cannot see them, but I know they must be; they were yesterday. Every now and then when her legs clench down on my hips or her fingernails dig into my shoulders, I remember Debi is behind me and I am more or less responsible for not killing both of us. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/02/little-corner-world" title="Little Corner of the World"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/siphondon.jpg" alt="Little Corner of the World" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/02/little-corner-world" class="u-url" title="Little Corner of the World">Little Corner of the World</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-02-28T20:13:00">February <span>28, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Four Thousand Islands</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/laos/" title="travel writing from Lao (PDR)">Lao (PDR)</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="14.130915842740961"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="105.83782194571636"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + It's difficult to explain but the further south you go in Laos the more relaxed life becomes. Since life in the north is not exactly high stress, by the time we arrived in the four thousand Islands we had to check our pulse periodically to ensure that time was in fact still moving forward. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/02/cant-get-there-here" title="Can&#8217;t Get There From Here"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/attapeulight.jpg" alt="Can&#8217;t Get There From Here" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/02/cant-get-there-here" class="u-url" title="Can&#8217;t Get There From Here">Can’t Get There From Here</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-02-24T20:00:03">February <span>24, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Attapeu</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/laos/" title="travel writing from Lao (PDR)">Lao (PDR)</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="14.806085524831946"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="106.83689115944449"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The most magical light in Laos lives on the Bolevan Plateau. For some reason not many tourists seem to make it out to the Bolevan Plateau, in spite of the fact that the roads are quite good, transport runs regularly, the villages peaceful, even sleepy, little hamlets. In short, the Bolevan Plateau is wonderful, and not the least in part because no one else is there. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/02/safe-milk" title="Safe as Milk"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/usbombs.jpg" alt="Safe as Milk" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/02/safe-milk" class="u-url" title="Safe as Milk">Safe as Milk</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-02-18T19:54:24">February <span>18, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Sekong</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/laos/" title="travel writing from Lao (PDR)">Lao (PDR)</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="14.623949505069236"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="106.5756225437582"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + You would think, if you were the United States and you were illegally and unofficially bombing a foreign country you might not want to stamp "US Bomb" on the side of your bombs, and yet there it was all over Laos: "US Bomb." Clearly somebody didn't think things all the way through, especially given that roughly one third of said bombs failed to explode. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/02/everyday-fourteenth" title="Everyday the Fourteenth"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/hinbunriver.jpg" alt="Everyday the Fourteenth" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/02/everyday-fourteenth" class="u-url" title="Everyday the Fourteenth">Everyday the Fourteenth</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-02-14T19:50:35">February <span>14, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Savannakhet</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/laos/" title="travel writing from Lao (PDR)">Lao (PDR)</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="16.560435757136183"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="104.75026129218114"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + We piled four large bags, four daypacks and five people in a six meter dugout canoe. The boat was powered by the ever-present-in-southeast-Asia long tail motor which is essential a lawnmower engine with a three meter pole extending out of it to which a small propeller is attached — perfect for navigating shallow water. And by shallow I mean sometimes a mere inch between the hull and the riverbed. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/02/water-slides-and-spirit-guides" title="Water Slides and Spirit Guides"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/konglorcave.jpg" alt="Water Slides and Spirit Guides" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/02/water-slides-and-spirit-guides" class="u-url" title="Water Slides and Spirit Guides">Water Slides and Spirit Guides</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-02-10T19:47:12">February <span>10, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Konglor Cave</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/laos/" title="travel writing from Lao (PDR)">Lao (PDR)</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="18.06285035750356"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="104.49783323740189"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The dramatic black karst limestone mountains ringing Ban Na Hin grew darker as the light faded. I was sitting alone on the back porch of our guesthouse watching the light slowly disappear from the bottoms of the clouds and wondering absently how many pages it would take to explain how I came to be in the tiny town of Ban Na Hin, or if such an explanation even really existed. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/02/lovely-universe" title="The Lovely Universe"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/vangveing.jpg" alt="The Lovely Universe" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/02/lovely-universe" class="u-url" title="The Lovely Universe">The Lovely Universe</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-02-04T23:43:28">February <span>4, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Vang Vieng</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/laos/" title="travel writing from Lao (PDR)">Lao (PDR)</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="18.92544862065573"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="102.43755339150223"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + I would like to say that I have something memorable to write about Vang Vieng, but the truth is we mostly sat around doing very little, making new friends, drinking a beer around the fire and waiting out the Chinese new year celebrations, which meant none of us could get Cambodian visas until the following Monday. We were forced to relax beside the river for several more days than we intended. Yes friends, traveling is hard, but I do it for you. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/01/i-used-fly-peter-pan" title="I Used to Fly Like Peter Pan"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/gibbonexperience.jpg" alt="I Used to Fly Like Peter Pan" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/01/i-used-fly-peter-pan" class="u-url" title="I Used to Fly Like Peter Pan">I Used to Fly Like Peter Pan</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-01-21T19:42:47">January <span>21, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Luang Nam Tha</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/laos/" title="travel writing from Lao (PDR)">Lao (PDR)</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="20.853678554651314"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="101.19094847224211"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The next time someone asks you, “would you like to live in a tree house and travel five hundred feet above the ground attached to a zip wire?” I highly suggest you say, “yes, where do a I sign up?” If you happen to be in Laos, try the Gibbon Experience. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/01/hymn-big-wheel" title="Hymn of the Big Wheel"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/bluemilkwaterfall.jpg" alt="Hymn of the Big Wheel" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/01/hymn-big-wheel" class="u-url" title="Hymn of the Big Wheel">Hymn of the Big Wheel</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-01-19T19:37:46">January <span>19, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Luang Prabang</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/laos/" title="travel writing from Lao (PDR)">Lao (PDR)</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="19.827433510057354"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="102.42279051308633"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Jose Saramago writes in <cite>The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis</cite> that the gods "journey like us in the river of things, differing from us only because we call them gods and sometimes believe in them." Sitting in the middle of the river listening to the gurgle of water moving over stone and around trees I began to think that perhaps this is the sound of some lost language, a sound capable of creating mountains, valleys, estuaries, isthmuses and all the other forms around us, gurgling and sonorous but without clear meaning, shrouded in turquoise, a mystery through which we can move our sense of wonder intact. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/01/down-river" title="Down the River"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/mekongslowboat.jpg" alt="Down the River" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/01/down-river" class="u-url" title="Down the River">Down the River</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-01-17T20:13:26">January <span>17, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Luang Prabang</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/laos/" title="travel writing from Lao (PDR)">Lao (PDR)</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="19.875064447947235"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="102.13199614056808"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Morning in Chiang Khong Thailand revealed itself as a foggy, and not a little mysterious, affair with the far shore of the Mekong, the Laos shore, almost completely hidden in a veil of mist. The first ferry crossed at eight and I was on it, looking to meet up with the slow boat to Luang Prabang. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/01/king-carrot-flowers" title="The King of Carrot Flowers"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/doiinthanonnp.jpg" alt="The King of Carrot Flowers" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/01/king-carrot-flowers" class="u-url" title="The King of Carrot Flowers">The King of Carrot Flowers</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-01-17T18:53:17">January <span>17, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Doi Inthanan National Park</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/thailand/" title="travel writing from Thailand">Thailand</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="19.315031381446268"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="98.84262083585028"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The light outside the windows was still a pre-dawn inky blue when the freezing cold water hit my back. A cold shower at six thirty in the morning is infinitely more powerful, albeit not at long lasting, as a cup of coffee. After dropping my body temperature a few degrees and having no towel to dry off with, just a dirty shirt and ceaseless ceiling fan, a cup of tea seemed like a good idea so I stopped in at the restaurant downstairs and, after a cup of hot water with some Jasmine leaves swirling at the bottom of it, I climbed on my rental motorbike and set out for Doi Inthanan National Park. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/01/you-and-i-are-disappearing" title="You and I Are Disappearing"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/changmaiumong.jpg" alt="You and I Are Disappearing" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/01/you-and-i-are-disappearing" class="u-url" title="You and I Are Disappearing">You and I Are Disappearing</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-01-12T00:52:30">January <span>12, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Chang Mai</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/thailand/" title="travel writing from Thailand">Thailand</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="18.787042343613653"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="98.9876746993555"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The all night bus reached Chiang Mai well past dawn, the city already beginning to stir. I considered trying to nap, but in the end decided to explore the town. What better way to see Buddhist temples than in the dreamy fog of sleeplessness? Chiang Mai has over three hundred wats within the somewhat sprawling city limits, most of them reasonably modern and, in my opinion, not worth visiting. I narrowed the field to three, which I figured was a nice round one percent.
+ + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/01/buddha-bounty" title="Buddha on the Bounty"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/jimthompsonhouse.jpg" alt="Buddha on the Bounty" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/01/buddha-bounty" class="u-url" title="Buddha on the Bounty">Buddha on the Bounty</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-01-05T18:43:03">January <span>5, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Bangkok</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/thailand/" title="travel writing from Thailand">Thailand</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="13.726128126466529"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="100.547304139446"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The house Jim Thompson left behind in Bangkok is gorgeous, but the real charm is the garden and its orchids. I wandered around the gardens which really aren't that large for some time and then found a bench near a collection of orchids, where I sat for the better part of an hour, occasionally taking a photograph or two, but mostly thinking about how human orchids are. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/01/brink-clouds" title="Brink of the Clouds"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/bangkokfrombaiyoke.jpg" alt="Brink of the Clouds" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/01/brink-clouds" class="u-url" title="Brink of the Clouds">Brink of the Clouds</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-01-03T20:38:27">January <span>3, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Bangkok</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/thailand/" title="travel writing from Thailand">Thailand</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="13.750921779579318"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="100.54314135105552"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + "The city is a cathedral" writes James Salter, "its scent is dreams." Salter may have been referring to New York, but his words ring true in Bangkok. And the best place to feel it at night is on the river or from the top of the Baiyoke Sky Hotel — where a circular, revolving observation deck offers 360° views of the Bangkok nightscape. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/01/are-you-amplified-rock" title="Are You Amplified to Rock?"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/bangkokriver.jpg" alt="Are You Amplified to Rock?" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/01/are-you-amplified-rock" class="u-url" title="Are You Amplified to Rock?">Are You Amplified to Rock?</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-01-01T18:37:48">January <span>1, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Bangkok</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/thailand/" title="travel writing from Thailand">Thailand</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="13.761790973148347"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="100.4934453824343"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + It's a new year, are you amplified to rock? 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<li>Thailand</li> + </ul> + <main role="main" id="writing-archive" class="archive"> + <h1 class="hide">Writing from Thailand</h1> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/05/closing-time" title="Closing Time"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/thailandtrain.jpg" alt="Closing Time" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/05/closing-time" class="u-url" title="Closing Time">Closing Time</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-05-01T00:14:23">May <span>1, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Koh Kradan</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/thailand/" title="travel writing from Thailand">Thailand</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="7.0586452366957175"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="98.53981016694692"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Headed back to Europe: I started to write a bit of reminiscence, trying to remember the highlights of my time in Asia before I return to the west, but about halfway through I kept thinking of a popular Buddhist saying — be here now. Most of these dispatches are written in past tense, but this time I want to simply be here now. This moment, on this train. This is the last time I'll post something from Southeast Asia. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/04/beginning-end" title="Beginning of the End"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/kokradan.jpg" alt="Beginning of the End" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/04/beginning-end" class="u-url" title="Beginning of the End">Beginning of the End</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-04-22T00:11:20">April <span>22, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Koh Kradan</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/thailand/" title="travel writing from Thailand">Thailand</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="7.4090692758064645"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="99.207916245987"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + I wasn't expecting much from Ko Kradan, but in the end I discovered a slice of Thailand the way it's often describe by wistful hippies who first came here twenty years ago. Tong and Ngu and the rest of the Thais working at Paradise Lost were the nicest people I met in Thailand and Wally was by far the most laid back farang I've come across. I ended up staying on Ko Kradan for the remainder of my time in the south.
+ + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/04/going-down-south" title="Going Down South"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/kophiphi.jpg" alt="Going Down South" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/04/going-down-south" class="u-url" title="Going Down South">Going Down South</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-04-11T00:10:50">April <span>11, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Koh Phi Phi</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/thailand/" title="travel writing from Thailand">Thailand</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="7.735826857017756"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="98.77876280363327"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The Phi Phi Island Resort, where some friends were staying, is nestled on the leeward shore of Koh Phi Phi Island and posts a private beach, beautiful reef, fancy swimming pools and rooms with real sheets. Unheard of. I sauntered in a day early, acted like I owned the place, rented snorkel gear, charged it to a random room number and spent the afternoon on the reef. If only I could have put it on the Underhill's credit card. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/01/king-carrot-flowers" title="The King of Carrot Flowers"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/doiinthanonnp.jpg" alt="The King of Carrot Flowers" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/01/king-carrot-flowers" class="u-url" title="The King of Carrot Flowers">The King of Carrot Flowers</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-01-17T18:53:17">January <span>17, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Doi Inthanan National Park</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/thailand/" title="travel writing from Thailand">Thailand</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="19.315031381446268"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="98.84262083585028"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The light outside the windows was still a pre-dawn inky blue when the freezing cold water hit my back. A cold shower at six thirty in the morning is infinitely more powerful, albeit not at long lasting, as a cup of coffee. After dropping my body temperature a few degrees and having no towel to dry off with, just a dirty shirt and ceaseless ceiling fan, a cup of tea seemed like a good idea so I stopped in at the restaurant downstairs and, after a cup of hot water with some Jasmine leaves swirling at the bottom of it, I climbed on my rental motorbike and set out for Doi Inthanan National Park. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/01/you-and-i-are-disappearing" title="You and I Are Disappearing"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/changmaiumong.jpg" alt="You and I Are Disappearing" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/01/you-and-i-are-disappearing" class="u-url" title="You and I Are Disappearing">You and I Are Disappearing</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-01-12T00:52:30">January <span>12, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Chang Mai</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/thailand/" title="travel writing from Thailand">Thailand</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="18.787042343613653"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="98.9876746993555"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The all night bus reached Chiang Mai well past dawn, the city already beginning to stir. I considered trying to nap, but in the end decided to explore the town. What better way to see Buddhist temples than in the dreamy fog of sleeplessness? Chiang Mai has over three hundred wats within the somewhat sprawling city limits, most of them reasonably modern and, in my opinion, not worth visiting. I narrowed the field to three, which I figured was a nice round one percent.
+ + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/01/buddha-bounty" title="Buddha on the Bounty"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/jimthompsonhouse.jpg" alt="Buddha on the Bounty" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/01/buddha-bounty" class="u-url" title="Buddha on the Bounty">Buddha on the Bounty</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-01-05T18:43:03">January <span>5, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Bangkok</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/thailand/" title="travel writing from Thailand">Thailand</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="13.726128126466529"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="100.547304139446"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The house Jim Thompson left behind in Bangkok is gorgeous, but the real charm is the garden and its orchids. I wandered around the gardens which really aren't that large for some time and then found a bench near a collection of orchids, where I sat for the better part of an hour, occasionally taking a photograph or two, but mostly thinking about how human orchids are. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/01/brink-clouds" title="Brink of the Clouds"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/bangkokfrombaiyoke.jpg" alt="Brink of the Clouds" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/01/brink-clouds" class="u-url" title="Brink of the Clouds">Brink of the Clouds</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-01-03T20:38:27">January <span>3, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Bangkok</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/thailand/" title="travel writing from Thailand">Thailand</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="13.750921779579318"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="100.54314135105552"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + "The city is a cathedral" writes James Salter, "its scent is dreams." Salter may have been referring to New York, but his words ring true in Bangkok. And the best place to feel it at night is on the river or from the top of the Baiyoke Sky Hotel — where a circular, revolving observation deck offers 360° views of the Bangkok nightscape. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/01/are-you-amplified-rock" title="Are You Amplified to Rock?"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/bangkokriver.jpg" alt="Are You Amplified to Rock?" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/01/are-you-amplified-rock" class="u-url" title="Are You Amplified to Rock?">Are You Amplified to Rock?</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-01-01T18:37:48">January <span>1, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Bangkok</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/thailand/" title="travel writing from Thailand">Thailand</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="13.761790973148347"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="100.4934453824343"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + It's a new year, are you amplified to rock? Ready, set, go. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/12/merry-christmas-2005" title="Merry Christmas 2005"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/bangkokfort.jpg" alt="Merry Christmas 2005" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/12/merry-christmas-2005" class="u-url" title="Merry Christmas 2005">Merry Christmas 2005</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-12-25T18:27:48">December <span>25, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Bangkok</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/thailand/" title="travel writing from Thailand">Thailand</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="13.761790973148347"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="100.49344538243446"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Seasons Greeting from luxagraf. I'm in Bangkok, Thailand at the moment. I am taking a short break from traveling to do a little working so I don't have much to report. 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class="archive"> + <h1 class="hide">Writing from Thailand</h1> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/05/closing-time" title="Closing Time"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/thailandtrain.jpg" alt="Closing Time" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/05/closing-time" class="u-url" title="Closing Time">Closing Time</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-05-01T00:14:23">May <span>1, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Koh Kradan</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/thailand/" title="travel writing from Thailand">Thailand</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="7.0586452366957175"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="98.53981016694692"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Headed back to Europe: I started to write a bit of reminiscence, trying to remember the highlights of my time in Asia before I return to the west, but about halfway through I kept thinking of a popular Buddhist saying — be here now. Most of these dispatches are written in past tense, but this time I want to simply be here now. This moment, on this train. This is the last time I'll post something from Southeast Asia. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/04/beginning-end" title="Beginning of the End"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/kokradan.jpg" alt="Beginning of the End" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/04/beginning-end" class="u-url" title="Beginning of the End">Beginning of the End</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-04-22T00:11:20">April <span>22, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Koh Kradan</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/thailand/" title="travel writing from Thailand">Thailand</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="7.4090692758064645"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="99.207916245987"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + I wasn't expecting much from Ko Kradan, but in the end I discovered a slice of Thailand the way it's often describe by wistful hippies who first came here twenty years ago. Tong and Ngu and the rest of the Thais working at Paradise Lost were the nicest people I met in Thailand and Wally was by far the most laid back farang I've come across. I ended up staying on Ko Kradan for the remainder of my time in the south.
+ + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/04/going-down-south" title="Going Down South"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/kophiphi.jpg" alt="Going Down South" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/04/going-down-south" class="u-url" title="Going Down South">Going Down South</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-04-11T00:10:50">April <span>11, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Koh Phi Phi</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/thailand/" title="travel writing from Thailand">Thailand</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="7.735826857017756"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="98.77876280363327"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The Phi Phi Island Resort, where some friends were staying, is nestled on the leeward shore of Koh Phi Phi Island and posts a private beach, beautiful reef, fancy swimming pools and rooms with real sheets. Unheard of. I sauntered in a day early, acted like I owned the place, rented snorkel gear, charged it to a random room number and spent the afternoon on the reef. If only I could have put it on the Underhill's credit card. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/01/king-carrot-flowers" title="The King of Carrot Flowers"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/doiinthanonnp.jpg" alt="The King of Carrot Flowers" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/01/king-carrot-flowers" class="u-url" title="The King of Carrot Flowers">The King of Carrot Flowers</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-01-17T18:53:17">January <span>17, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Doi Inthanan National Park</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/thailand/" title="travel writing from Thailand">Thailand</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="19.315031381446268"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="98.84262083585028"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The light outside the windows was still a pre-dawn inky blue when the freezing cold water hit my back. A cold shower at six thirty in the morning is infinitely more powerful, albeit not at long lasting, as a cup of coffee. After dropping my body temperature a few degrees and having no towel to dry off with, just a dirty shirt and ceaseless ceiling fan, a cup of tea seemed like a good idea so I stopped in at the restaurant downstairs and, after a cup of hot water with some Jasmine leaves swirling at the bottom of it, I climbed on my rental motorbike and set out for Doi Inthanan National Park. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/01/you-and-i-are-disappearing" title="You and I Are Disappearing"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/changmaiumong.jpg" alt="You and I Are Disappearing" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/01/you-and-i-are-disappearing" class="u-url" title="You and I Are Disappearing">You and I Are Disappearing</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-01-12T00:52:30">January <span>12, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Chang Mai</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/thailand/" title="travel writing from Thailand">Thailand</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="18.787042343613653"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="98.9876746993555"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The all night bus reached Chiang Mai well past dawn, the city already beginning to stir. I considered trying to nap, but in the end decided to explore the town. What better way to see Buddhist temples than in the dreamy fog of sleeplessness? Chiang Mai has over three hundred wats within the somewhat sprawling city limits, most of them reasonably modern and, in my opinion, not worth visiting. I narrowed the field to three, which I figured was a nice round one percent.
+ + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/01/buddha-bounty" title="Buddha on the Bounty"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/jimthompsonhouse.jpg" alt="Buddha on the Bounty" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/01/buddha-bounty" class="u-url" title="Buddha on the Bounty">Buddha on the Bounty</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-01-05T18:43:03">January <span>5, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Bangkok</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/thailand/" title="travel writing from Thailand">Thailand</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="13.726128126466529"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="100.547304139446"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The house Jim Thompson left behind in Bangkok is gorgeous, but the real charm is the garden and its orchids. I wandered around the gardens which really aren't that large for some time and then found a bench near a collection of orchids, where I sat for the better part of an hour, occasionally taking a photograph or two, but mostly thinking about how human orchids are. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/01/brink-clouds" title="Brink of the Clouds"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/bangkokfrombaiyoke.jpg" alt="Brink of the Clouds" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/01/brink-clouds" class="u-url" title="Brink of the Clouds">Brink of the Clouds</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-01-03T20:38:27">January <span>3, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Bangkok</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/thailand/" title="travel writing from Thailand">Thailand</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="13.750921779579318"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="100.54314135105552"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + "The city is a cathedral" writes James Salter, "its scent is dreams." Salter may have been referring to New York, but his words ring true in Bangkok. And the best place to feel it at night is on the river or from the top of the Baiyoke Sky Hotel — where a circular, revolving observation deck offers 360° views of the Bangkok nightscape. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/01/are-you-amplified-rock" title="Are You Amplified to Rock?"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/bangkokriver.jpg" alt="Are You Amplified to Rock?" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/01/are-you-amplified-rock" class="u-url" title="Are You Amplified to Rock?">Are You Amplified to Rock?</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-01-01T18:37:48">January <span>1, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Bangkok</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/thailand/" title="travel writing from Thailand">Thailand</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="13.761790973148347"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="100.4934453824343"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + It's a new year, are you amplified to rock? Ready, set, go. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/12/merry-christmas-2005" title="Merry Christmas 2005"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/bangkokfort.jpg" alt="Merry Christmas 2005" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/12/merry-christmas-2005" class="u-url" title="Merry Christmas 2005">Merry Christmas 2005</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-12-25T18:27:48">December <span>25, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-region">Bangkok</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/thailand/" title="travel writing from Thailand">Thailand</a> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="13.761790973148347"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="100.49344538243446"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Seasons Greeting from luxagraf. I'm in Bangkok, Thailand at the moment. I am taking a short break from traveling to do a little working so I don't have much to report. 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States</h1> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2013/05/oysterman-wanted" title="Oysterman Wanted"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2013/abandonedboat.jpg" alt="Oysterman Wanted" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2013/05/oysterman-wanted" class="u-url" title="Oysterman Wanted">Oysterman Wanted</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2013-05-29T19:43:23">May <span>29, 2013</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">St. George Island</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Florida</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="29.664094724906786"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-84.86566792845446"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The world of oystermen and local fishing industry is doomed. Even the people resisting the transition know they’re no longer fighting for their way of life. They’re just fighting to keep the thinnest resemblance of what they’ve always known around until they leave this world. They’re fighting to keep from having to watch the death of everything they know. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2013/05/all-the-pretty-beaches" title="All the Pretty Beaches"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2013/stgeorgeisland_1.jpg" alt="All the Pretty Beaches" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2013/05/all-the-pretty-beaches" class="u-url" title="All the Pretty Beaches">All the Pretty Beaches</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2013-05-26T22:43:23">May <span>26, 2013</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">St. George Island</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Florida</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="29.65981806259071"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-84.87047444700387"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + St. George is just off the Gulf Coast of northwest Florida, only about 7 hours from where I live. There are better places if you're looking to dive or snorkel. Ditto if it's nightlife you're after. But if you're looking for a seemingly endless amount of gorgeous white sand beaches you'll share with only a few migratory birds, St. George is the place to be. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2013/05/consider-the-apalachicola-oyster" title="Consider the Apalachicola Oyster"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2013/considertheoyster.jpg" alt="Consider the Apalachicola Oyster" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2013/05/consider-the-apalachicola-oyster" class="u-url" title="Consider the Apalachicola Oyster">Consider the Apalachicola Oyster</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2013-05-22T19:43:23">May <span>22, 2013</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Apalachicola</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Florida</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="29.72867205648089"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-84.98378973124662"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + If you know the name Apalachicola at all it’s likely because of its eponymous oysters. Very few things, let alone culinary things, are as attached to place as oysters. In fact, once you get beyond the Rockefeller, ordering “oysters” is akin to walking in a bar and ordering “a beer.” But unlike beer, oysters don’t have brands, they have places — Pemaquid, Wellfleet, Blue Point, Apalachicola. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2012/05/things-behind-sun" title="Things Behind the Sun"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2012/tucsonblur.jpg" alt="Things Behind the Sun" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2012/05/things-behind-sun" class="u-url" title="Things Behind the Sun">Things Behind the Sun</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2012-05-20T22:47:00">May <span>20, 2012</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Athens</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Georgia</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.95674257719642"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-83.37592612645985"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + My grandparents left the home they lived in for 60 years today. I don't know how much of my life was spent in that house, probably well over a year if you added up all the holidays and family gatherings. And now I'm thousands of miles away and someone is clearing out the house. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2012/03/street-food-athens-georgia" title="Street Food in Athens Georgia"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2012/foodcart1.jpg" alt="Street Food in Athens Georgia" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2012/03/street-food-athens-georgia" class="u-url" title="Street Food in Athens Georgia">Street Food in Athens Georgia</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2012-03-31T21:56:00">March <span>31, 2012</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Athens</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Georgia</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.959861666904274"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-83.37601195713451"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Cheap food, made fresh, in front of you. Served hot, wrapped in newspaper. Street food is the people's food, it removes the mystery of the kitchen, lays the process bare. It's also the staple diet of people around the world. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2011/03/we-used-wait-it" title="We Used to Wait For It"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2011/losangeles11h.jpg" alt="We Used to Wait For It" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2011/03/we-used-wait-it" class="u-url" title="We Used to Wait For It">We Used to Wait For It</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2011-03-28T21:50:00">March <span>28, 2011</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Los Angeles</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">California</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="34.04477171337467"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-118.25204621066614"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + When we first came here, there was nothing. Downtown Los Angeles was an empty husk of a place fifteen years ago. Now it's reborn, alive and kicking. Yet there is something in the older buildings, something in the old walls, something lost in the bricks, something in the concrete, the marble. Something you don’t find anymore. Something we need to find again. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2011/01/world-outside" title="The World Outside"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2011/snowh.jpg" alt="The World Outside" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2011/01/world-outside" class="u-url" title="The World Outside">The World Outside</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2011-01-26T11:56:00">January <span>26, 2011</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Athens</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Georgia</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.96016249314553"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-83.4028816107045"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The world outside the house is blanketed in snow, a monochrome of white interrupted only by the dark, wet trunks of trees, the red brick of chimneys, the occasional green of shrubs poking through. The roads are unbroken expanses of smooth white, no one is out yet, no footprints track their way through the snowy sidewalk. The world outside is the same as it was last night, before the snow began, and yet, it feels totally different. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2011/01/charleston-a-z" title="Charleston A-Z"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2011/charleston-h_1.jpg" alt="Charleston A-Z" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2011/01/charleston-a-z" class="u-url" title="Charleston A-Z">Charleston A-Z</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2011-01-18T15:29:00">January <span>18, 2011</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Charleston</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">South Carolina</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="32.78595765272612"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-79.9366307147337"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Charleston alphabetically. For example, <strong>Q</strong> is for quiet, Charleston has a lot of it. Just head down to the Battery area, walk through the park and starting walking down the side streets. Take one of the many alleys and walkways that weave between the massive, stately houses. Get lost. It doesn't take much to find a quiet place of your own. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/08/dinosaur-national-monument-part-two-down-river" title="Dinosaur National Monument, Part Two: Down the River"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/lodorecanyonh.jpg" alt="Dinosaur National Monument, Part Two: Down the River" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/08/dinosaur-national-monument-part-two-down-river" class="u-url" title="Dinosaur National Monument, Part Two: Down the River">Dinosaur National Monument, Part Two: Down the River</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-08-02T09:00:00">August <span>2, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Dinosaur National Monument</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Colorado</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="40.457462390627"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-109.2584323730928"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + This is the only real way to see Dinosaur National Monument — you must journey down the river. There are two major rivers running through Dinosaur, the Yampa, which carves through Yampa Canyon, and the Green, which cuts through Lodore. <a href="http://www.adventureboundusa.com/" title="Adventure Bound Rafting">Adventure Bound Rafting</a> runs some of the best whitewater rafting trips in Colorado and I was lucky enough to go down the Green River with them, through the majestic Lodore Canyon. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/07/dinosaur-national-monument-part-one-echo-park" title="Dinosaur National Monument, Part One: Echo Park"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/dinosaurh.jpg" alt="Dinosaur National Monument, Part One: Echo Park" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/07/dinosaur-national-monument-part-one-echo-park" class="u-url" title="Dinosaur National Monument, Part One: Echo Park">Dinosaur National Monument, Part One: Echo Park</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-07-28T17:00:00">July <span>28, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Dinosaur National Monument</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Colorado</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="40.52063402652926"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-108.99388073317648"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Dinosaur National Monument was poorly named. The best parts of it are not the fossils in the quarry (which is closed for 2010 anyway) but the canyon country — some of the best, most remote canyon country you'll find in this part of the world. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/07/endless-crowds-yellowstone" title="The Endless Crowds of Yellowstone"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/yellowstoneh.jpg" alt="The Endless Crowds of Yellowstone" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/07/endless-crowds-yellowstone" class="u-url" title="The Endless Crowds of Yellowstone">The Endless Crowds of Yellowstone</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-07-25T14:00:00">July <span>25, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Yellowstone National Park</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Wyoming</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="44.46180292448713"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-110.82196979172171"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + There is wilderness in Yellowstone, even if it's just inches from the boardwalks that transport thousands around the geothermal pools. It may not be wilderness on a grand scale — the sweeping mountain peaks or wild rivers of other parks — but in some ways that makes it more enticing. As one Ranger told me, Yellowstone isn't about the big picture, the grand scenery, it's about the tiny details within each pool. To really see Yellowstone, he said, you have to take your time, move slowly and look closely. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/07/backpacking-grand-tetons" title="Backpacking in the Grand Tetons"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/grandtetonsh.jpg" alt="Backpacking in the Grand Tetons" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/07/backpacking-grand-tetons" class="u-url" title="Backpacking in the Grand Tetons">Backpacking in the Grand Tetons</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-07-22T17:00:00">July <span>22, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Grand Teton National Park</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Wyoming</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="43.79315431684632"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-110.79651831037907"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Hiking into the wilderness empties your mind. You fall into the silence of the mountains and you can relax in a way that's very difficult to do in the midst of civilization. The white noise that surrounds us in our everyday lives, that noise we don't even notice as it adds thin layers of stress that build up over days, weeks, years, does not seem capable of following us into the mountains. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/07/great-sand-dunes-national-park" title="Great Sand Dunes National Park"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/greatsanddunesh_4.jpg" alt="Great Sand Dunes National Park" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/07/great-sand-dunes-national-park" class="u-url" title="Great Sand Dunes National Park">Great Sand Dunes National Park</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-07-17T09:00:00">July <span>17, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Great Sand Dunes National Park</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Colorado</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="37.72673718028319"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-105.55097578487117"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Something about the desert inspires me to get up early and watch the sunrise. The cool mornings seem worth getting up for out here in the high plains of Colorado, especially when there's the chance to watch the sunrise from the largest sand dunes in North America, here in Great Sand Dune National Park. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/07/comanche-national-grasslands" title="Comanche National Grasslands"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/comanchenationalgrasslands.jpg" alt="Comanche National Grasslands" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/07/comanche-national-grasslands" class="u-url" title="Comanche National Grasslands">Comanche National Grasslands</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-07-16T13:00:00">July <span>16, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Comanche National Grasslands</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Colorado</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="37.14748995999048"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-103.0095720147769"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + To say the Comanche National Grasslands is off the grid would be an understatement. With the exception of Highway 50 in Nevada, I've never driven through such isolation and vast openness anywhere in the world. And it's easy to get lost. There are no signs, no road names even, just dirt paths crisscrossing a wide, perfectly flat expanses of grass. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/07/why-national-parks-are-better-state-parks" title="Why National Parks Are Better Than State Parks"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/palodura.jpg" alt="Why National Parks Are Better Than State Parks" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/07/why-national-parks-are-better-state-parks" class="u-url" title="Why National Parks Are Better Than State Parks">Why National Parks Are Better Than State Parks</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-07-15T10:00:00">July <span>15, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Amarillo</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Texas</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="35.18854030957816"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-101.9194793559329"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + There are many reasons, but here's the one I currently consider most important: National Parks never close. Take Palo Dura State park outside of Amarillo, Texas. Were it a National Park, I would be there right now. But it's not, it's a state park and so I'm sitting in a hotel room in Amarillo because everyone knows nature closes at 10PM. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/07/legend-billy-the-kid" title="The Legend of Billy the Kid"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/billythekidmuseum.jpg" alt="The Legend of Billy the Kid" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/07/legend-billy-the-kid" class="u-url" title="The Legend of Billy the Kid">The Legend of Billy the Kid</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-07-11T18:00:00">July <span>11, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Hico</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Texas</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="31.981920692582488"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-98.03087709969479"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + History rarely offers neat, tidy stories. But the messier, more confusing and more controversial the story becomes, the more it works its way into our imaginations. The legend of Billy the Kid is like that of Amelia Earhart or D.B. Cooper — the less we know for sure, the more compelling the story becomes. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/07/dixie-drug-store" title="The Dixie Drug Store"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/nopharmacymuseum01.jpg" alt="The Dixie Drug Store" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/07/dixie-drug-store" class="u-url" title="The Dixie Drug Store">The Dixie Drug Store</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-07-08T17:00:00">July <span>8, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">New Orleans</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Louisiana</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="29.955903613807074"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-90.06511865792525"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + New Orleans is it's own world. So much so that's it's impossible to put your finger on what it is that makes it different. New Orleans is a place where the line between consensus reality and private dream seems to have never fully developed. And a wonderful world it is. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/07/begin-the-begin" title="Begin the Begin"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/gulf_port_beach.jpg" alt="Begin the Begin" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/07/begin-the-begin" class="u-url" title="Begin the Begin">Begin the Begin</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-07-05T22:00:00">July <span>5, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Gulf Port</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Mississippi</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="30.380400296597216"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-89.03081058216594"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + It's travel time again. This time I'm driving my 1969 Ford truck out west, to Texas, Colorado, Utah and more — a road trip around the western United States. The first stop is Gulf Port, Mississippi. It's hard to believe, sitting here on the deserted beaches of Gulf Shore, watching the sun break through the ominous clouds, but soon this beauty will be gone. The BP oil spill is somewhere out there, blown slowly ashore by the storm hovering over us, waiting to drown the beaches in crude. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/05/los-angeles-im-yours" title="Los Angeles, I'm Yours"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/launionsubway.jpg" alt="Los Angeles, I'm Yours" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/05/los-angeles-im-yours" class="u-url" title="Los Angeles, I'm Yours">Los Angeles, I’m Yours</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-05-17T16:43:18">May <span>17, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Los Angeles</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">California</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="34.05582387432624"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-118.23588250455148"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Los Angeles is all about the car. Shiny, air-conditioned comfort, gliding you soundlessly from one place to another without the need to interact with anything in between. But I have discovered that if you abandon the car for the subway and your own two feet, the illusion that L.A. is just a model train set world — tiny, plastic and devoid of any ground beneath the ground — fades and you find yourself, for a time, in a real city. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/04/death-valley" title="(There'll Be) Peace in the Valley"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/deathvalley.jpg" alt="(There'll Be) Peace in the Valley" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/04/death-valley" class="u-url" title="(There'll Be) Peace in the Valley">(There’ll Be) Peace in the Valley</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-04-24T11:45:59">April <span>24, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Death Valley</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">California</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="36.42090257717807"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-116.80985925955854"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Sometimes you ignore the places close to home because, well, there's always next weekend. Which is why I never made it Death Valley in the twenty-five years I lived in California. It took being all the way across the country to get me out to Death Valley. Which might explain why I actually got up before dawn just to watch the sunrise at Zabriskie Point. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/03/so-far-i-have-not-found-science" title="So Far, I Have Not Found The Science"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/okeefenokee.jpg" alt="So Far, I Have Not Found The Science" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/03/so-far-i-have-not-found-science" class="u-url" title="So Far, I Have Not Found The Science">So Far, I Have Not Found The Science</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-03-13T12:50:48">March <span>13, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Okefenokee Swamp</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Georgia</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="30.913415518451895"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-82.1832228795993"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + A canoe trip through the Okefenokee Swamp down in the southern most corner of Georgia. Paddling the strange reddish and incredibly still waters. Begging alligators, aching muscles and the kindly folks of Stintson's Barbecue all getting their due. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2009/05/how-to-get-your-butt-and-travel-world" title="How to Get Off Your Butt and Travel the World"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2009/traveltheworld.jpg" alt="How to Get Off Your Butt and Travel the World" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2009/05/how-to-get-your-butt-and-travel-world" class="u-url" title="How to Get Off Your Butt and Travel the World">How to Get Off Your Butt and Travel the World</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2009-05-03T19:39:16">May <span>3, 2009</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Athens</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Georgia</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.95763520280544"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-83.40871809752001"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + How do you make the leap from cubicle daydreams to life on to the road? You want to travel the world, but, like me, you have a million excuses stopping you. How do overcome the inertia that keeps you trapped in a life that isn't what you want it to be? Here's a few practical tips and how tos designed to motivate you to get off your butt and travel the world. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2009/04/strangers-on-a-train" title="No Strangers on a Train"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2009/strangersonatrain.jpg" alt="No Strangers on a Train" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2009/04/strangers-on-a-train" class="u-url" title="No Strangers on a Train">No Strangers on a Train</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2009-04-13T19:36:13">April <span>13, 2009</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Athens</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Georgia</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.95818694160937"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-83.40824602873336"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + We mythologize trains because they harken back to an age of community travel, a real, tangible community of travelers, not just backpackers, but people from all walks of life, people traveling near and far together in a shared space that isn't locked down like an airplane and isn't isolated like a car; it's a shared travel experience and there are precious few of those left in our world. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2008/12/leonardo-da-vinci-and-codex-bunnies" title="Leonardo Da Vinci and the Codex on Bunnies"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2009/codexofbunnies.jpg" alt="Leonardo Da Vinci and the Codex on Bunnies" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2008/12/leonardo-da-vinci-and-codex-bunnies" class="u-url" title="Leonardo Da Vinci and the Codex on Bunnies">Leonardo Da Vinci and the Codex on Bunnies</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2008-12-09T18:18:33">December <span>9, 2008</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Birmingham</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Alabama</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.521441993672646"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-86.81079982502803"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + A few pages from Leonardo Da Vinci's notebooks make a rare trip outside Italy, to Birmingham, AL, of all places. But the Birmingham Museum of Art is home to far more alarming works of art, works which depict the eventual, inevitable, bunny takeover, after which all the elements of our reality will be replaced by bunnies. Seriously. 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<p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Great Smoky Mountains</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Tennessee</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="35.680446234758236"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-83.65024565485956"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Pigeon Forge is Myrtle Beach in the mountains. Redneck weddings cascade straight out of the chapel and into the mini golf reception area. Pigeon Forge is everything that's wrong with America. But we aren't here for Pigeon Forge, it just happens to have a free condo we're staying in. We're here for the mountains. Smoky Mountain National Park is just a few miles up the road. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2008/07/rope-swings-and-river-floats" title="Rope Swings and River Floats"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/chestateeriver.jpg" alt="Rope Swings and River Floats" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2008/07/rope-swings-and-river-floats" class="u-url" title="Rope Swings and River Floats">Rope Swings and River Floats</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2008-07-27T20:14:49">July <span>27, 2008</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Mountain Cabin</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Georgia</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="34.53463159921271"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-83.90280245566663"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Two weekends ago we went up to the mountains, just outside of Dahlonega GA, and floated the Chestatee River using inner tubes, various pool toys and one super-cool inflatable seahorse. Unfortunately, proving one of my travel mottos -- you can never go back -- a return trip proved disastrous. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2008/06/love-with-a-view-vagabonds-responsibilty-living-we" title="In Love With a View: Vagabonds, Responsibilty and Living Well"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/wrong.jpg" alt="In Love With a View: Vagabonds, Responsibilty and Living Well" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2008/06/love-with-a-view-vagabonds-responsibilty-living-we" class="u-url" title="In Love With a View: Vagabonds, Responsibilty and Living Well">In Love With a View: Vagabonds, Responsibilty and Living Well</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2008-06-07T14:45:29">June <span>7, 2008</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Athens</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Georgia</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.944877470043906"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-83.38860689432926"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Why all the vitriol about a seemingly innocuous concept -- that traveling doesn't have to cost a lot of money, isn't all that difficult and hey, you can even go right now? People like us, who feel tied down by responsibility, find the suggestion that we actually aren't tied down patronizing and yes, elitist. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2007/11/fall" title="Fall"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/fall.jpg" alt="Fall" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2007/11/fall" class="u-url" title="Fall">Fall</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2007-11-14T02:25:17">November <span>14, 2007</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Athens</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Georgia</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.9448641194789"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-83.38856934340312"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The trees are in full technicolor swing. The land is slowly dying, and not just because it's Fall, we're also in the middle of a prolonged drought and this year the leaves are opting for a James Dean-style, leave-a-good-looking-corpse exit. If you're a leaf and you've got to go, do it with class. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2007/07/other-ocean" title="On The Other Ocean"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/sailing.jpg" alt="On The Other Ocean" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2007/07/other-ocean" class="u-url" title="On The Other Ocean">On The Other Ocean</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2007-07-23T11:24:44">July <span>23, 2007</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Catalina Island</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">California</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.46191438592164"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-118.52130172987002"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Consider what would happen if your house were tilted 30 degrees to the left, how this would complicate ordinary activities -- like say walking. Now throw in a bouncing motion that lifts the floor five or six feet up and down in a seesaw-like motion on a perpendicular axis to the 30 degree tilt -- things become more like riding a seesaw that's attached to a merry-go-round which is missing a few bolts. That's sailing. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2007/06/being-there" title="Being There"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/myrtlebeachcrap.jpg" alt="Being There" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2007/06/being-there" class="u-url" title="Being There">Being There</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2007-06-17T02:18:54">June <span>17, 2007</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Myrtle Beach Airport</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">South Carolina</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.683925130931456"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-78.92835615966725"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Myrtle Beach does not exist. Nearly everything in Myrtle Beach is a paltry derivative of some original form. For instance, most of the country has golf courses, in Myrtle Beach there are endless rows of putt-putt courses, where most towns attempt to draw in big name musical acts for their tourist venues, Myrtle Beach is content with impersonators. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2007/06/sailing-through" title="Sailing Through"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/charlestonships.jpg" alt="Sailing Through" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2007/06/sailing-through" class="u-url" title="Sailing Through">Sailing Through</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2007-06-15T00:15:43">June <span>15, 2007</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Charleston</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">South Carolina</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="32.835570335240995"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-79.82256172976372"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The rumors are true. I moved back to the south; Athens GA to be exact. But I hate staying in one place for too long, so after a month or two in Athens I headed up to Charleston to visit a friend. The south is curious place. If you've never been here I couldn't hope to explain it, but it's not so much a place as an approach. A way of getting somewhere more than anywhere specific. Perhaps even a wrong turn.
+ + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2007/03/goodbye-mother-and-cove" title="Goodbye to the Mother and the Cove"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/lacloud.jpg" alt="Goodbye to the Mother and the Cove" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2007/03/goodbye-mother-and-cove" class="u-url" title="Goodbye to the Mother and the Cove">Goodbye to the Mother and the Cove</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2007-03-01T11:15:10">March <span>1, 2007</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Los Angeles</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">California</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="34.040907225218874"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-118.47207783003557"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + It's strange how you can plan something, go through all the motions of making it happen without ever really understanding what you're doing. I've been doing this for the better part of three years now. I realized recently that I have no real idea how I came to be here.
+ + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2007/02/everything-all-time" title="Everything All The Time"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/end.jpg" alt="Everything All The Time" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2007/02/everything-all-time" class="u-url" title="Everything All The Time">Everything All The Time</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2007-02-03T11:14:13">February <span>3, 2007</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Los Angeles</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">California</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.97530686407635"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-118.42890499373785"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + I don't know if I'm just overly paranoid but when I call up memories in the dark hours of the Beaujolais-soaked pre-dawn, I see a collection of mildly amusing, occasionally painful series of embarrassments, misunderstandings and general wrong-place, wrong-time sort of moments. Which isn't to imply that my life is a British sitcom, just that I'm not in a hurry to re-live any of it. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2007/01/sun-came-no-conclusions" title="The Sun Came Up With No Conclusions"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/illuminatus.jpg" alt="The Sun Came Up With No Conclusions" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2007/01/sun-came-no-conclusions" class="u-url" title="The Sun Came Up With No Conclusions">The Sun Came Up With No Conclusions</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2007-01-11T18:11:30">January <span>11, 2007</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Los Angeles</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">California</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.97517340607632"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-118.42887280722941"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + "And so it is that we, as men, do not exist until we do; and then it is that we play with our world of existent things, and order and disorder them, and so it shall be that non-existence shall take us back from existence and that nameless spirituality shall return to Void, like a tired child home from a very wild circus." -- Robert Anton Wilson and Kerry Thornley. Good luck and Godspeed Mr. Wilson. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/12/give-it-or-turnit-loose" title="Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/jamesbrown.jpg" alt="Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/12/give-it-or-turnit-loose" class="u-url" title="Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose">Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-12-25T19:10:49">December <span>25, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Los Angeles</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">California</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.97519564909091"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-118.42893718024602"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Traveling soul. Soul is not something out there or in you, it's the place where you meet the out there; something very similar to what I think James Brown meant — a mixture of the secular and the spiritual, the profane and the sublime. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/06/homeward" title="Homeward"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/trappedmoth.jpg" alt="Homeward" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/06/homeward" class="u-url" title="Homeward">Homeward</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-06-09T11:05:34">June <span>9, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Los Angeles</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">California</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.975160060264834"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-118.42903373977045"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + New York, New York. John F Kennedy airport 1 am date unknown, sleepy looking customs guard stamps a passport without hardly looking at, without even checking to see where I had been. A light drizzle is falling outside and the subways extension to the terminal never looked so good. What is it like to be home? I don't know, I'll tell you when I get there. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/10/twenty-more-minutes-go" title="Twenty More Minutes to Go"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/heretogo.jpg" alt="Twenty More Minutes to Go" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/10/twenty-more-minutes-go" class="u-url" title="Twenty More Minutes to Go">Twenty More Minutes to Go</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-10-20T18:19:10">October <span>20, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Newport Beach</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">California</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.63332664528318"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-117.90302036551485"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Well it's the night before I leave. I just got done pacing around the driveway of my parents house smoking cigarettes… nervously? Excitedly? Restlessly? A bit of all of those I suppose. I walk across the street, over the drainage ditch and head for the swing set at the park. Right now I'm swinging in a park in Costa Mesa California. Tomorrow France. Weird. [Photo to the right, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/scarin/53961434/">via Flickr</a>] + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/10/tips-and-resources" title="Travel Tips and Resources"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/travelgear.jpg" alt="Travel Tips and Resources" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/10/tips-and-resources" class="u-url" title="Travel Tips and Resources">Travel Tips and Resources</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-10-19T18:14:56">October <span>19, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Newport Beach</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">California</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.632093907236325"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-117.90123937872937"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + An overview of the things you might want to bring on an extended trip, as well as some tips and recommendations on things like visas and vaccinations. The part that was most helpful for me was learning what I <em>didn't</em> need to bring — as it turns out, quite a bit. Nowadays my pack is much smaller and lighter. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/10/new-luddites" title="The New Luddites"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/books.jpg" alt="The New Luddites" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/10/new-luddites" class="u-url" title="The New Luddites">The New Luddites</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-10-08T18:17:45">October <span>8, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Newport Beach</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">California</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.632147504909575"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-117.90106771735248"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + An older, non-travel piece about Google's plan to scan all the world's books and Luddite-like response from many authors. Let's see, someone wants to make your book easier to find, searchable and indexable and you're opposed to it? You're a fucking idiot. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/03/one-nation-under-groove" title="One Nation Under a Groove"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/ipod.jpg" alt="One Nation Under a Groove" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/03/one-nation-under-groove" class="u-url" title="One Nation Under a Groove">One Nation Under a Groove</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-03-25T18:12:59">March <span>25, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Northampton</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Massachusetts</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="42.32254049078504"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-72.62804030361058"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The sky is falling! The iPod! It's ruining our culture! Or, uh, maybe it's just like the Walkman, but better. And since, so far as I can tell, the world did not collapse with the introduction of the Walkman and headphones, it probably isn't going to fall apart just because the storage format for our music has changed. [Photo to the right via <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/rogpool/2960735485/">Flickr</a>] + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/02/farewell-mr-hunter-s-thompson" title="Farewell Mr. Hunter S Thompson"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/thompson.jpg" alt="Farewell Mr. Hunter S Thompson" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/02/farewell-mr-hunter-s-thompson" class="u-url" title="Farewell Mr. Hunter S Thompson">Farewell Mr. Hunter S Thompson</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-02-24T18:11:10">February <span>24, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Northampton</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Massachusetts</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="42.322635681187286"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-72.62795447292216"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Hunter S. Thompson departs on a journey to the western lands. 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Even the people resisting the transition know they’re no longer fighting for their way of life. They’re just fighting to keep the thinnest resemblance of what they’ve always known around until they leave this world. They’re fighting to keep from having to watch the death of everything they know. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2013/05/all-the-pretty-beaches" title="All the Pretty Beaches"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2013/stgeorgeisland_1.jpg" alt="All the Pretty Beaches" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2013/05/all-the-pretty-beaches" class="u-url" title="All the Pretty Beaches">All the Pretty Beaches</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2013-05-26T22:43:23">May <span>26, 2013</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">St. George Island</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Florida</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="29.65981806259071"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-84.87047444700387"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + St. George is just off the Gulf Coast of northwest Florida, only about 7 hours from where I live. There are better places if you're looking to dive or snorkel. Ditto if it's nightlife you're after. But if you're looking for a seemingly endless amount of gorgeous white sand beaches you'll share with only a few migratory birds, St. George is the place to be. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2013/05/consider-the-apalachicola-oyster" title="Consider the Apalachicola Oyster"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2013/considertheoyster.jpg" alt="Consider the Apalachicola Oyster" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2013/05/consider-the-apalachicola-oyster" class="u-url" title="Consider the Apalachicola Oyster">Consider the Apalachicola Oyster</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2013-05-22T19:43:23">May <span>22, 2013</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Apalachicola</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Florida</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="29.72867205648089"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-84.98378973124662"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + If you know the name Apalachicola at all it’s likely because of its eponymous oysters. Very few things, let alone culinary things, are as attached to place as oysters. In fact, once you get beyond the Rockefeller, ordering “oysters” is akin to walking in a bar and ordering “a beer.” But unlike beer, oysters don’t have brands, they have places — Pemaquid, Wellfleet, Blue Point, Apalachicola. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2012/05/things-behind-sun" title="Things Behind the Sun"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2012/tucsonblur.jpg" alt="Things Behind the Sun" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2012/05/things-behind-sun" class="u-url" title="Things Behind the Sun">Things Behind the Sun</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2012-05-20T22:47:00">May <span>20, 2012</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Athens</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Georgia</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.95674257719642"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-83.37592612645985"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + My grandparents left the home they lived in for 60 years today. I don't know how much of my life was spent in that house, probably well over a year if you added up all the holidays and family gatherings. And now I'm thousands of miles away and someone is clearing out the house. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2012/03/street-food-athens-georgia" title="Street Food in Athens Georgia"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2012/foodcart1.jpg" alt="Street Food in Athens Georgia" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2012/03/street-food-athens-georgia" class="u-url" title="Street Food in Athens Georgia">Street Food in Athens Georgia</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2012-03-31T21:56:00">March <span>31, 2012</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Athens</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Georgia</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.959861666904274"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-83.37601195713451"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Cheap food, made fresh, in front of you. Served hot, wrapped in newspaper. Street food is the people's food, it removes the mystery of the kitchen, lays the process bare. It's also the staple diet of people around the world. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2011/03/we-used-wait-it" title="We Used to Wait For It"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2011/losangeles11h.jpg" alt="We Used to Wait For It" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2011/03/we-used-wait-it" class="u-url" title="We Used to Wait For It">We Used to Wait For It</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2011-03-28T21:50:00">March <span>28, 2011</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Los Angeles</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">California</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="34.04477171337467"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-118.25204621066614"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + When we first came here, there was nothing. Downtown Los Angeles was an empty husk of a place fifteen years ago. Now it's reborn, alive and kicking. Yet there is something in the older buildings, something in the old walls, something lost in the bricks, something in the concrete, the marble. Something you don’t find anymore. Something we need to find again. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2011/01/world-outside" title="The World Outside"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2011/snowh.jpg" alt="The World Outside" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2011/01/world-outside" class="u-url" title="The World Outside">The World Outside</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2011-01-26T11:56:00">January <span>26, 2011</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Athens</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Georgia</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.96016249314553"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-83.4028816107045"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The world outside the house is blanketed in snow, a monochrome of white interrupted only by the dark, wet trunks of trees, the red brick of chimneys, the occasional green of shrubs poking through. The roads are unbroken expanses of smooth white, no one is out yet, no footprints track their way through the snowy sidewalk. The world outside is the same as it was last night, before the snow began, and yet, it feels totally different. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2011/01/charleston-a-z" title="Charleston A-Z"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2011/charleston-h_1.jpg" alt="Charleston A-Z" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2011/01/charleston-a-z" class="u-url" title="Charleston A-Z">Charleston A-Z</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2011-01-18T15:29:00">January <span>18, 2011</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Charleston</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">South Carolina</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="32.78595765272612"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-79.9366307147337"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Charleston alphabetically. For example, <strong>Q</strong> is for quiet, Charleston has a lot of it. Just head down to the Battery area, walk through the park and starting walking down the side streets. Take one of the many alleys and walkways that weave between the massive, stately houses. Get lost. It doesn't take much to find a quiet place of your own. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/08/dinosaur-national-monument-part-two-down-river" title="Dinosaur National Monument, Part Two: Down the River"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/lodorecanyonh.jpg" alt="Dinosaur National Monument, Part Two: Down the River" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/08/dinosaur-national-monument-part-two-down-river" class="u-url" title="Dinosaur National Monument, Part Two: Down the River">Dinosaur National Monument, Part Two: Down the River</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-08-02T09:00:00">August <span>2, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Dinosaur National Monument</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Colorado</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="40.457462390627"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-109.2584323730928"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + This is the only real way to see Dinosaur National Monument — you must journey down the river. There are two major rivers running through Dinosaur, the Yampa, which carves through Yampa Canyon, and the Green, which cuts through Lodore. <a href="http://www.adventureboundusa.com/" title="Adventure Bound Rafting">Adventure Bound Rafting</a> runs some of the best whitewater rafting trips in Colorado and I was lucky enough to go down the Green River with them, through the majestic Lodore Canyon. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/07/dinosaur-national-monument-part-one-echo-park" title="Dinosaur National Monument, Part One: Echo Park"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/dinosaurh.jpg" alt="Dinosaur National Monument, Part One: Echo Park" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/07/dinosaur-national-monument-part-one-echo-park" class="u-url" title="Dinosaur National Monument, Part One: Echo Park">Dinosaur National Monument, Part One: Echo Park</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-07-28T17:00:00">July <span>28, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Dinosaur National Monument</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Colorado</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="40.52063402652926"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-108.99388073317648"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Dinosaur National Monument was poorly named. The best parts of it are not the fossils in the quarry (which is closed for 2010 anyway) but the canyon country — some of the best, most remote canyon country you'll find in this part of the world. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/07/endless-crowds-yellowstone" title="The Endless Crowds of Yellowstone"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/yellowstoneh.jpg" alt="The Endless Crowds of Yellowstone" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/07/endless-crowds-yellowstone" class="u-url" title="The Endless Crowds of Yellowstone">The Endless Crowds of Yellowstone</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-07-25T14:00:00">July <span>25, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Yellowstone National Park</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Wyoming</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="44.46180292448713"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-110.82196979172171"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + There is wilderness in Yellowstone, even if it's just inches from the boardwalks that transport thousands around the geothermal pools. It may not be wilderness on a grand scale — the sweeping mountain peaks or wild rivers of other parks — but in some ways that makes it more enticing. As one Ranger told me, Yellowstone isn't about the big picture, the grand scenery, it's about the tiny details within each pool. To really see Yellowstone, he said, you have to take your time, move slowly and look closely. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/07/backpacking-grand-tetons" title="Backpacking in the Grand Tetons"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/grandtetonsh.jpg" alt="Backpacking in the Grand Tetons" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/07/backpacking-grand-tetons" class="u-url" title="Backpacking in the Grand Tetons">Backpacking in the Grand Tetons</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-07-22T17:00:00">July <span>22, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Grand Teton National Park</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Wyoming</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="43.79315431684632"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-110.79651831037907"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Hiking into the wilderness empties your mind. You fall into the silence of the mountains and you can relax in a way that's very difficult to do in the midst of civilization. The white noise that surrounds us in our everyday lives, that noise we don't even notice as it adds thin layers of stress that build up over days, weeks, years, does not seem capable of following us into the mountains. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/07/great-sand-dunes-national-park" title="Great Sand Dunes National Park"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/greatsanddunesh_4.jpg" alt="Great Sand Dunes National Park" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/07/great-sand-dunes-national-park" class="u-url" title="Great Sand Dunes National Park">Great Sand Dunes National Park</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-07-17T09:00:00">July <span>17, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Great Sand Dunes National Park</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Colorado</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="37.72673718028319"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-105.55097578487117"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Something about the desert inspires me to get up early and watch the sunrise. The cool mornings seem worth getting up for out here in the high plains of Colorado, especially when there's the chance to watch the sunrise from the largest sand dunes in North America, here in Great Sand Dune National Park. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/07/comanche-national-grasslands" title="Comanche National Grasslands"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/comanchenationalgrasslands.jpg" alt="Comanche National Grasslands" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/07/comanche-national-grasslands" class="u-url" title="Comanche National Grasslands">Comanche National Grasslands</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-07-16T13:00:00">July <span>16, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Comanche National Grasslands</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Colorado</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="37.14748995999048"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-103.0095720147769"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + To say the Comanche National Grasslands is off the grid would be an understatement. With the exception of Highway 50 in Nevada, I've never driven through such isolation and vast openness anywhere in the world. And it's easy to get lost. There are no signs, no road names even, just dirt paths crisscrossing a wide, perfectly flat expanses of grass. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/07/why-national-parks-are-better-state-parks" title="Why National Parks Are Better Than State Parks"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/palodura.jpg" alt="Why National Parks Are Better Than State Parks" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/07/why-national-parks-are-better-state-parks" class="u-url" title="Why National Parks Are Better Than State Parks">Why National Parks Are Better Than State Parks</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-07-15T10:00:00">July <span>15, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Amarillo</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Texas</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="35.18854030957816"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-101.9194793559329"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + There are many reasons, but here's the one I currently consider most important: National Parks never close. Take Palo Dura State park outside of Amarillo, Texas. Were it a National Park, I would be there right now. But it's not, it's a state park and so I'm sitting in a hotel room in Amarillo because everyone knows nature closes at 10PM. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/07/legend-billy-the-kid" title="The Legend of Billy the Kid"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/billythekidmuseum.jpg" alt="The Legend of Billy the Kid" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/07/legend-billy-the-kid" class="u-url" title="The Legend of Billy the Kid">The Legend of Billy the Kid</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-07-11T18:00:00">July <span>11, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Hico</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Texas</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="31.981920692582488"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-98.03087709969479"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + History rarely offers neat, tidy stories. But the messier, more confusing and more controversial the story becomes, the more it works its way into our imaginations. The legend of Billy the Kid is like that of Amelia Earhart or D.B. Cooper — the less we know for sure, the more compelling the story becomes. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/07/dixie-drug-store" title="The Dixie Drug Store"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/nopharmacymuseum01.jpg" alt="The Dixie Drug Store" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/07/dixie-drug-store" class="u-url" title="The Dixie Drug Store">The Dixie Drug Store</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-07-08T17:00:00">July <span>8, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">New Orleans</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Louisiana</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="29.955903613807074"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-90.06511865792525"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + New Orleans is it's own world. So much so that's it's impossible to put your finger on what it is that makes it different. New Orleans is a place where the line between consensus reality and private dream seems to have never fully developed. And a wonderful world it is. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/07/begin-the-begin" title="Begin the Begin"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/gulf_port_beach.jpg" alt="Begin the Begin" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/07/begin-the-begin" class="u-url" title="Begin the Begin">Begin the Begin</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-07-05T22:00:00">July <span>5, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Gulf Port</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Mississippi</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="30.380400296597216"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-89.03081058216594"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + It's travel time again. This time I'm driving my 1969 Ford truck out west, to Texas, Colorado, Utah and more — a road trip around the western United States. The first stop is Gulf Port, Mississippi. It's hard to believe, sitting here on the deserted beaches of Gulf Shore, watching the sun break through the ominous clouds, but soon this beauty will be gone. The BP oil spill is somewhere out there, blown slowly ashore by the storm hovering over us, waiting to drown the beaches in crude. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/05/los-angeles-im-yours" title="Los Angeles, I'm Yours"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/launionsubway.jpg" alt="Los Angeles, I'm Yours" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/05/los-angeles-im-yours" class="u-url" title="Los Angeles, I'm Yours">Los Angeles, I’m Yours</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-05-17T16:43:18">May <span>17, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Los Angeles</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">California</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="34.05582387432624"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-118.23588250455148"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Los Angeles is all about the car. Shiny, air-conditioned comfort, gliding you soundlessly from one place to another without the need to interact with anything in between. But I have discovered that if you abandon the car for the subway and your own two feet, the illusion that L.A. is just a model train set world — tiny, plastic and devoid of any ground beneath the ground — fades and you find yourself, for a time, in a real city. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/04/death-valley" title="(There'll Be) Peace in the Valley"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/deathvalley.jpg" alt="(There'll Be) Peace in the Valley" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/04/death-valley" class="u-url" title="(There'll Be) Peace in the Valley">(There’ll Be) Peace in the Valley</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-04-24T11:45:59">April <span>24, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Death Valley</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">California</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="36.42090257717807"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-116.80985925955854"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Sometimes you ignore the places close to home because, well, there's always next weekend. Which is why I never made it Death Valley in the twenty-five years I lived in California. It took being all the way across the country to get me out to Death Valley. Which might explain why I actually got up before dawn just to watch the sunrise at Zabriskie Point. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/03/so-far-i-have-not-found-science" title="So Far, I Have Not Found The Science"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/okeefenokee.jpg" alt="So Far, I Have Not Found The Science" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/03/so-far-i-have-not-found-science" class="u-url" title="So Far, I Have Not Found The Science">So Far, I Have Not Found The Science</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-03-13T12:50:48">March <span>13, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Okefenokee Swamp</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Georgia</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="30.913415518451895"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-82.1832228795993"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + A canoe trip through the Okefenokee Swamp down in the southern most corner of Georgia. Paddling the strange reddish and incredibly still waters. Begging alligators, aching muscles and the kindly folks of Stintson's Barbecue all getting their due. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2009/05/how-to-get-your-butt-and-travel-world" title="How to Get Off Your Butt and Travel the World"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2009/traveltheworld.jpg" alt="How to Get Off Your Butt and Travel the World" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2009/05/how-to-get-your-butt-and-travel-world" class="u-url" title="How to Get Off Your Butt and Travel the World">How to Get Off Your Butt and Travel the World</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2009-05-03T19:39:16">May <span>3, 2009</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Athens</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Georgia</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.95763520280544"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-83.40871809752001"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + How do you make the leap from cubicle daydreams to life on to the road? You want to travel the world, but, like me, you have a million excuses stopping you. How do overcome the inertia that keeps you trapped in a life that isn't what you want it to be? Here's a few practical tips and how tos designed to motivate you to get off your butt and travel the world. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2009/04/strangers-on-a-train" title="No Strangers on a Train"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2009/strangersonatrain.jpg" alt="No Strangers on a Train" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2009/04/strangers-on-a-train" class="u-url" title="No Strangers on a Train">No Strangers on a Train</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2009-04-13T19:36:13">April <span>13, 2009</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Athens</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Georgia</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.95818694160937"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-83.40824602873336"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + We mythologize trains because they harken back to an age of community travel, a real, tangible community of travelers, not just backpackers, but people from all walks of life, people traveling near and far together in a shared space that isn't locked down like an airplane and isn't isolated like a car; it's a shared travel experience and there are precious few of those left in our world. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2008/12/leonardo-da-vinci-and-codex-bunnies" title="Leonardo Da Vinci and the Codex on Bunnies"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2009/codexofbunnies.jpg" alt="Leonardo Da Vinci and the Codex on Bunnies" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2008/12/leonardo-da-vinci-and-codex-bunnies" class="u-url" title="Leonardo Da Vinci and the Codex on Bunnies">Leonardo Da Vinci and the Codex on Bunnies</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2008-12-09T18:18:33">December <span>9, 2008</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Birmingham</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Alabama</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.521441993672646"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-86.81079982502803"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + A few pages from Leonardo Da Vinci's notebooks make a rare trip outside Italy, to Birmingham, AL, of all places. But the Birmingham Museum of Art is home to far more alarming works of art, works which depict the eventual, inevitable, bunny takeover, after which all the elements of our reality will be replaced by bunnies. Seriously. 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