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A CS-Inspired Loop of the USA: A Plethora of Couchsurfing Hosts over Four Weeks

During my recent, fabulous four-week road trip from Minnesota to New Jersey and back, and many times since, I had and have been asked what it is like to live with Couchsurfers, the hosts who’d put me up at various … Continue reading

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A Couchsurfer’s Profile

Since my profile on CSing became a bit too wordy, I’ve decided to transfer the information from the site to here, just in case anyone wants to read more details before deciding to stay at my place or host/accept me … Continue reading

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The CSing Difference: 10 Years On

Having been a proudly legitimate member of the Couchsurfing community for ten years now, I still have to explain to people, especially periodic naysayers, what CSing entails, how it works, and why on Earth I would ever stay in a … Continue reading

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A Bit More on Being Called a Foreigner

For those who’ve read my blog before, you now know that one of my entries is about being labelled a foreigner here in Taiwan, on a daily basis, practically, and there is a recent entry on my daughter, who is … Continue reading

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A Selection of Photos from Sri Lanka

In 2009, having hopped around most countries in East and SE Asia already, for I’d been traveling extensively while living in Taiwan and Japan for much of the previous few years, I decided to look elsewhere in Asia for my … Continue reading

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A Few Shots of Rural Brunei…

Along the road to Labi in southern Brunei, we came across this wonderful little lake, with its wooden pathways out into the center. Although a local man came along and warned us about alligators, which worried my 3-year old, and … Continue reading

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Images of Brunei, Part III

Here is Part III of my Brunei photos.

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Images of Brunei, Part II

Although we would have loved to head to the jungles of Brunei, which surely is the most exotic aspect of traveling in Brunei, we stayed in the cities/towns, with some country road driving in our rental car, especially the lovely … Continue reading

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Images of Brunei, Part I: A Few Languid Days in BSB and Elsewhere

Although I plan on posting some prose as soon as I can find the time to get fingertips to keyboard, I thought I could send out some photos of Brunei first. Here is a batch which focuses mostly on Bandar … Continue reading

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Fo Guang Shan (in Kaohsiung, Taiwan) Buddhist Monastery and Buddha Memorial Hall

Starting this blog off presented challenges, for if I were to initially have focused on the overly ostentatious display of spending that went into the new(ish) Buddha Memorial Hall at Fo Guang Shan, an outlay of cash that could/should have … Continue reading

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