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Miranda and I have kept a travel log since 1985. Our journal has many, many entries. Therefore, we edited our Travel Blog down to 57 postings. Although our most popular blog has been Entry 56, we believe that our three best blogs are:

The Departure-Entry One

Entry Two: Cat Ass Trophy - The Journey Continues

Entry Three -The Cyclades

We also posted a very old travel journal from India, written around 1920. An excerpt can be seen in Entry Eight.

Due to "identity theft" and privacy concerns we have changed some of the names of the people and "other" aspects of our Travel Blog. Therefore, please do not make comments correcting certain details! If you find your name changed and don't mind having your real name posted, please e-mail us.

Thank you, Travel Blog, for this great service.

Miranda and Bryan Porter

"The World is a Book, and those who do not Travel read only a Page" - St.Augustine.

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By Bryan
April 28th 2008

Entry 58-Bangkok, Aranya, Poipet, Siem Reap, to Angkor Wat Asia » Cambodia » North » Siem Reap

April 21, 2008
Miranda and the taxi driver from A1 Guesthouse on our way to Aranya.

Entry 58 - Bangkok, Aranya, Poipet, Siem Reap, to Angkor Wat Angkor Wat is one of the wonders of the world. Yet, to get there from Bangkok is a truly inglorious ordeal. The worst way to go is to book transport from [url=http://74.125.93.132/search?q=cache:zjJMZeZyvkIJ:www.thaivisa.com/forum/Taxi-Poi-Pet-Ankhor-Wat-t204967.html+%22Scam+alert:+Some+travelers%22&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca] Khao San Road which will generally leave you stranded or worse (there are many [url=http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&num=100&q=+Khao+San+Road+Siem+Reap++Poipet+Scam+OR+scams+OR+%22rip+off [View Full Entry]

By Bryan
March 1st 2008

Entry 57 - The Ugly American Asia » Thailand » Central Thailand » Bangkok

Bryan

Entry 57 - The Ugly American Every tourist feels it -- anti-Americanism! When I am traveling, I always let people know "I am Canadian". Like many of my fellow travelers, I have Canada's flag sewn onto my luggage and let everyone know I am not from the States. It was not always like this. When I was growing up in Canada during the 1960s we loved America. Indeed, we were proud to be associated with the United States. We talked of "us" landing a man on the moon. Canadians knew that JFK and Dr. King were not from Canada ... but [View Full Entry]

By Bryan
August 20th 2007

Entry 55 - Thailand Constitution Asia » Thailand » Western Thailand » Phetchaburi

Fresh fish
Miranda and Champ standing in front of the fish farm. When one places an order, the staff go to the fish farm and pluck dinner from the water and place it in the cooker.

Entry 55 - Thailand Constitution Living and working in Bangkok, Miranda and I know Thailand to be a beautiful country, with a wonderful people and a wise king. Indeed, the King has saved the nation many times in the past. However, it must also be said that Thailand has been the victim of corrupt, greedy governments that have tried to oppress the people. This has caused Thailand great loss of face. From the "new airport" scandal to former Prime Minister Thaksin's criminal activities, this country has been the scene of one fiasco after another. Thammasat University has a tradition of [View Full Entry]

By Bryan
January 1st 2007

Entry 54 - Bangkok Bombs Asia » Thailand » Central Thailand » Bangkok

Rangsit Campus
Thammasat University has two campuses. This is a photo of "Bryan's" building at Rangsit Campus.

Entry 54 - Bangkok Bombs Miranda and I went out for dinner at about 7:00 pm on New Year's Eve to a small restaurant about five minutes from Wendy House. As we were ordering our meal, a young Thai man asked me if he could take the remote control off my table and change the television station from "New Year's celebrations" to a news program. When I asked why, he said that some bombs had gone off in Bangkok in four different areas and he wanted to follow the story. By the time we had finished supper, six bombs had reportedly [View Full Entry]

By Bryan
September 20th 2006

Entry 53 - Thailand Coup Asia » Thailand » Central Thailand » Bangkok

Miranda

Entry 53 - Thailand Coup Life in Bangkok, exotic, exciting and sometimes nerve wracking when we first arrived, had actually become pretty complacent. We were therefore astounded this morning (September 20th) to get a very unusual wake up call. As Miranda answered the phone, I could hear from her voice that something out of the ordinary was happening. Miss Nuyy, the night receptionist, told Miranda she might as well go back to bed because we didn't have to go to work that day. "There has been a revolution," she reported. "What?" I heard Miranda ask from my place in the showe [View Full Entry]

By Bryan
October 31st 2005

Entry 52 - THE QUAKE Asia » Thailand » Central Thailand » Bangkok

Bryan in front of the Chao Praya River
The Chao Praya River runs through the centre of Bangkok, by the Palace and Thammasat University. It's a major source of cheap transit.

Entry 52 - THE QUAKE While finishing up our travels in India we began to realize that our quest of circumnavigating the globe would be helped by paid employment. I kept my ears open and looked for jobs. Both Miranda and I agreed that we were ready to work overseas once more. While sitting and talking to a nice young couple in Calcutta one day, they chanced to mention they had worked as teachers in Bangkok, Thailand. They asked if we had ever considered teaching. As I looked into it and considered our educational background and experience working in schools in [View Full Entry]

By Bryan
June 27th 2004

ENTRY 51 - Visa Denied Asia » India » West Bengal » Mirik

Bryan and the President
While in Turkey we were invited by the Bishop of Jerusalem to visit. Bryan was given an opportunity to meet President Arafat in his compound at Ramallah. (He had also been invited to join a group of... [more]

ENTRY 51 - Visa Denied No Work Permit Miranda and I enjoyed our last couple of years in Peachland, but had decided we wanted to travel again. We were more than a little excited by the fact that -- after going through the interview process -- I had been offered the position of Rector, St. Paul's, Paget, by the Bishop of Bermuda. After a fantastic farewell from the people of St. Margaret's and the community of Peachland, we drove across Canada to Ontario and Quebec to visit friends before we left. We stopped along the way in various cities and towns. [View Full Entry]

By Bryan
September 11th 2001

Entry 50 - Tecate North America » Canada » British Columbia » Peachland

View from on high
The gorgeous Okanagan Lake seen from above.

A Youth Fellowship member mentioned to me that the local wing of AMOR Ministries was planning an excursion to Tecate, Mexico. The purpose: to build houses for people. AMOR was in need of chaplains. The Project This was an ecumenical project involving all the churches of the Okanagan Valley. The Peachland group was to be led by Dave Roi, and I was to be the chaplain. There would be twelve teens in the group. Our assignment was to build a house for a man named Gilberto and his family in seven days. The Problem - Henry and L [View Full Entry]

By Bryan
August 2nd 1998

ENTRY 49 -- Serial Killer? North America » Canada » British Columbia » Peachland

July 1994 - On the road again
Miranda and Bryan pose in front of our new Toyata, as we leave Miranda's parent's home and head to Peachland, British Columbia, our new parish.

ENTRY 49 -- Serial Killer ? The difference between a mass murderer and a serial killer is a follows: mass murderers commit unlawful homicides that involve two or more concurrent deaths; serial killers commit unlawful homicides that involve two or more sequential deaths. Of course as we traveled to Peachland we had no idea of what waiting for us. We were just thankful that the ordeal of Mr. Mac and South Africa was behind us and that the restful little town of Peachland was before us. As we entered Peachland, the Okanagan was shrouded in smoke, a black haze enveloping the [View Full Entry]

By Bryan
February 3rd 1994

Entry 48 -- Revolutionaries Africa » South Africa » Eastern Cape » Butterworth

The Bishop

Entry 48 -- Revolutionaries Neither, Miranda nor I thought of ourselves as "revolutionaries" or "freedom fighters" as we arrived in Butterworth, Transkei (a South African homeland) in 1990. Yet events would unfold in a dramatic way! Republic of Transkei To understand how we got ourselves into the situation in which we eventually found ourselves, it is important to understand South Africa's racial system of Apartheid. In 1976 when the Transkei became "independent", the practice of restricting black South African's legal place of residence to homelands [View Full Entry]

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