We had just left You must have followed us there! We stayed 10 nights in Punta Uva, departing December 14. What a great place. We're planning our return trip now.
Hi Jen, Great to see you blogging again. I´m just wondering why you keep backdating your blogs - where are you now and where can we expect blogs from in the future?
missing your log Dear Jen,
Have not seen you write new log for a while.
Hope you are wandering around ok. The world is
full of self righteous people, don't let them get
you down. I miss your ranting. LOL. Please
keep us cubical bound grunts inform. :))
Dear Linda: You really made a brilliant point; obviously government decisions are always right and we should just accept them all without question. Perhaps women fighting for suffrage rights and African Americans fighting for the civil rights movement should have just accepted US policies and given up their citizenship as well.
???? Here's something to ponder over...As a traveller for almost a year,which tax dollars have you been contributing to the United States?
And if you are so dissatisfied with US policies, why haven't you given up your US citizenship?
Hello from Trujillo I am a Peace Corps volunteer doing my service in Trujillo... stumbled upon your webpage and really delighted in reading about your experience while visiting. It's always interesting for me to compare my experience(s) in Trujillo with those of others who have come through. I'm glad you were able to find the beauty of Trujillo (not that its hard to see since it's literally surrounding you on all sides) despite its sometimes "rougher" edges. Enjoy the rest of your travels and come back anytime.
Check YOUR facts Dear Alex,
If you read carefully, I actually did not blame all the problems existing in the world today on America; maybe you are a bit defensive. However, as a member of that country I do find it important to critique things I find unsavoury when my own tax dollars support it. Furthermore, I have actually checked my facts over the past five years and would be more than happy to send you links of research conducted on trafficking that holds the US government complicit in some of its startups in Asia if you would email me instead of posting some rant on "Oh no, why does everyone always blame America?" on my blog. I am just writing how I see the world; you don't have to agree with it, but maybe you should check your facts before telling me I don't know mine.
The Thailand you dream of does exist...you are just looking in the wrong places (for starters, don't stay on Khao San Road)! I hope you enjoy the rest of your trip!
Have an awesome trip! Hi ya, I loved these photos you have up here. Last year I spent two very intense weeks running all over Thailand and had the absolute time of my life!! I hope that you have an awesome experience, I sure that you will Thailand is amazing.
From Ngaire, Wellington New Zealand
Smile... you're in Thailand It was interesting to follow your journey to Bangkok, I recognize a number of your impressions but I just felt I wanted to share my opinion on this matter, as I have seen a number of bloggers coming up with similar ideas about Thailand and Bangkok in particular. It seems that travellers sometimes base their opinions on Thai society based on what is offered on the tourist trail. As famous as they may be, I would argue that places like Khao San, Patpong or your typical resort town are not providing much insight into neither Thai culture or customs. Don't worry, I am sure you can still find a Thailand that you will love, and you may even find it squeezed into a corner between a 7-11 and Starbucks.
So sorry You have no idea how your lines make me travel around the places you visited, I have followed all your blogs. I'm mexican, and I'm so very sorry because of your experience with the oaxacan men.
I was reading your lines with the sansation of seeing thru your eyes, and I found my self with a smile on my face just until I arrived to the "my sentiment now grew into severe irritation" part.
I have had the plasure of reciving atention of not-known people during a budget trip to Europe and I kept those people on my mind as "friends", not to mention the hole group of travelers I hanged out with in some points of that geat trip.
That's why I offer you an honest "sorry" because of that bad bad experience in my loved Mexico.
I truly hope you to return to our country to find the real mexican spirit with that famous phrase "mi casa es tu casa", and you'll see how well we'll treat you.
its the Phoenix park............... This is Dublin's playground - the largest urban enclosed park in Europe, with a Circumference of 11km (7m) and a total area of 712 hectares (1,760 acres). Situated 3km (2m) west of the city centre. Ornamental gardens, nature trails, and broad expanses of grassland, separated by avenues of trees, including oak, beech, pine, chestnut, and lime. Livestock graze peacefully on pasturelands, 1000 deer roam the forested areas, and horses romp on polo fields.
Regards
Ennjoyed reading your B&H blog Nice writing about an area I really want to see and to understand more about the people and place. Also read your first journal about escaping the Corporate Life, something I'd like to do!
To Gerry Yes, I would recommend car hire, I went to Blagaj with an Italian chap who had his car there and it was lovely, and I'm not sure you can get there without a car. That is just the next village over, about 10 km or so, but I'm sure there are other nice places around that are also only accessible by car. Have a great trip!
Great blog... Hi
Great piece of writing. I never knew Bosnia was such an interesting place. I never tired of reading your piece, but the last three paragraphs let it down. Leave it as a travel piece and leave out the cliches of 'delving deeply into the travelling soul,' they've been done too many time before.
getting around in B&H Hi, Great blog! I'll be in Mostar on 3-10-05, and in the region for two weeks, would you recommend car-hire there? As in, worthwhile?
Fine piece of writing by the way!
Brilliant I was recently in Sarajevo, and also had the amazing luck to meet with locals, and have everything explained from their perspective. I hadn't written it all down, but your beautifully written blog brought it all back. Thank you! Keep your heart open, and keep up the 'selfishness' :)
comment If you need travel to allow you to
``feel, understand and care more about people``....you have serious issues that no amount of travelling can help.
enchiladas Jenni is one of the most open-minded and independent souls I have met in a long time...it's a rare enough combination to find in someone, and a gift to spend time with her. I'm jealous of her future traveling partners.
She's also unduly modest; she failed to mention in this blog how...smitten...certain locals were with her. Let's just say Slovenia would not have been the same without Jen's beauty procuring us special favors.
"As long as possible live free and uncommitted. It makes but little difference whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail.... If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." -- Henry David Thoreau (Walden)
So I did it, escaped the conformity of the corporate ratrace while I still had my youth and sanity, to see the world with my own two eyes and embrace all its beauty and ugliness. Central America to Europe to Southeast Asia in 2005; 2006 will find me ex... full info
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It ain't YOUR Thailand. Open your eyes and learn from others. Stop trying to tell the world how to behave.