Archive for January, 2008
Monday, January 28th, 2008
Second Dispatch from Taipei
It’s 4:30 in the morning and I am leaving for Borneo, where I will be for about the next 20 days. I think that will be the longest I’ve stayed in one place since I left California, although we’re going to be hiking and boating and taking airplanes around the country, so I’m not sure [...]
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Saturday, January 26th, 2008
Dispatch from Taipei!
Just a short update, since we’re about to leave as soon as my friend gets out of the shower — I made it to Taiwan! The 15-hour plane ride seemed like nothing compared to 70 hours I spent on the train in Canada, and went by very quickly. Even though the quirks of time zones [...]
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Thursday, January 24th, 2008
Dispatch from the Los Angeles International Airport
Since I last wrote, I have been to Boston, Washington D.C., Chicago, Kansas City, across the American Southwest, and then back to my college town of Orange, California. Mind-numbing reports of my travels there are in progress and will be posted soon. Right now I am in the Los Angeles airport, where I arrived at [...]
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Saturday, January 19th, 2008
My Trip to Manhattan
The Proto-Metropolis The first thing I noticed about New York was how normal, how almost familiar, it seemed. It could have been because every sort of person I’ve ever met or could ever hope to meet seemed to pass me on the sidewalk at one point or another, or it could have been the way [...]
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Thursday, January 17th, 2008
Dispatch from Boston!
I’m just about at the apex of my trip Eastward … after three nights in Manhattan and two nights in Boston, I’m getting on the train again tomorrow and heading Southeast, through D.C., Chicago and Kansas City, then finally back to California. I don’t have much time to write, since I need to finish packing [...]
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Saturday, January 12th, 2008
Dispatch from Somewhere in New York
Back in the Vancouver train station, while contemplating how much money to exchange into Canadian loonies, I ended up standing next to a young woman who was sitting on one of the long, high-backed wooden benches you only find in train stations, wearing a knitted moose sweater and coughing tremendously. I asked her if she [...]
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Saturday, January 12th, 2008
Dispatch from Toronto!
After a zillion-mile journey through sleepy, snowy Canada, we have arrived in Toronto! It’s really only bee a couple of days since I’ve been in a big city, but train-time stretches on and on and after spending three nights sleeping in coach class, I felt like I was finally re-entering civilization when the big buildings [...]
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Thursday, January 10th, 2008
Dispatch for Winnipeg, Ontario
I’m typing this from somewhere in snow-covered Manitoba, Canada, warm and in stocking feet inside a Via Rail train, the “legendary” (as our conductor keeps reminding us) Canadian. There is no wireless-internet out here, so I will post this when during out 50-minute stopover in Winnipeg. I have been living out of this train for [...]
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Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
Dispatch from the Road: Seattle, Washington
Shortly after the Coast Starlight pulled out of the station from Salem this morning, it hit me that I was not going to turn back, and I did not know when I would be back this way again. That’s one way that traveling makes you focus you on living in the moment and taking your [...]
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Monday, January 7th, 2008
Dispatches from the Road: Dallas, Oregon
I finally set off today. Still need to pack and doublecheck a few things, but I think I’m mostly ready to go. I’m catching a train in Salem up to Portland, where I have a layover for a couple of hours which I’ll try to use to stop by Powell’s Books, and then I hop [...]