‘Coffee? You want coffee? Yes? Maybe latah. You remembah me, ookay? Coffee. Maybe latah.’ In the dark, the young boy follows us persistently. ‘No, thank you’ I say, even though Trish and I both would like some coffee.…
The smell is terrible. It’s 5:30 am. I’m digging through my clothes in the dark for something to wear on our morning adventure: microlight flying over the Angkor Wat temples and Tonle Sap lake of Cambodia.
It’s simple to walk out the door of the hotel, grab a tuk-tuk and visit the Royal Palace and Silver Pagoda, along the Tonle Sap riverbank. It’s our first stop of the day. Such ease was unthinkable until only very…
Red-eyes suck the life out of you. Even though I sleep most of the 4 hour flight from Islamabad to Bangkok, I wake up older. At least a month of my life was lost tonight. You don’t feel it right…
Pakistan is one of my favorite countries. The people couldn’t be more different from me culturally, but they are open and inviting. Every person I meet shakes my hand warmly and smiles, from guards armed with MP5s to drivers, hotel…