How to recreate our photo slideshows
A number of people have written or commented asking how to create the photo slideshows included at the end of our travel dispatches, so I thought I’d share it with everyone.
Phnom Penh, Cambodia travel tips
Phnom Penh gives a first impression of a rough, ugly, sprawling town. The second impression is unfortunately much the same. With a huge expat community, the high end is very high. With the a large poor population, the low end…
Kratie, Cambodia travel tips
Where we ate: Krolan, a.k.a. bamboo rice – Along the roadside away from the tourist hotels, there are women with small roadside displays of bamboo tubes of various lengths and diameters. You’ll need to haggle a bit, but for much…
Globe, circumnavigated! Now what?
A year later, our buzzer label’s still here | Photo by Lauren Girardin On June 17, 2009 Todd and I walked through the door of our San Francisco apartment for the first time in 11 months and 8 days. During…
Tha Khek and Champasak, Laos travel tips
There’s not a lot to choose from in either Tha Khek or Champasak, as far as food and accommodation go, so do as we did and be willing to settle. Best tip, as is true almost everywhere in Laos, is…
Don Det and 4,000 Islands, Laos travel tips
There’s no electricity on Don Det besides the infrequent generator power. We heard that the island was going to be connected to mainland power by April 2009, so for all that we know may have changed by now. Service on…
