1.1 Philippines
1.2 Korea
2.1 Philippines
2.2 Korea
2.3 Japan
2.4 China
3 Education/Language learning/Research
3.1 Philippine
3.2 Korea
3.3 Japan
3.4 China
3.5 Middle East
3.6 Elsewhere in Asia
4.1 Philippines
4.2 Korea and Japan
4.3 China
4.4 Japan
5.1 Philippines
5.2 Korea
5.3 China6 Lifestyles
6.1 Philippines
6.2 Korea
7 Music
7.1 Philippines
7.2 China
8.1 Philippines
8.2 Korea
9.1 Philippines
9.2 Korea
9.3 China
10.1 Korea
10.2 Korea and Japan
10.3 Japan
11 Religious or spiritual practices
11.1 Philippines
11.2 Japan
11.3 China
12 Transitions/Cultural differences
12.1 Philippines
12.2 Philippines and Korea
12.3 Korea
12.4 Japan
12.5 China
12.6 Elsewhere
13 Travel
13.1 Philippines
13.3 China
13.4 Elsewhere in Asia

Books, Writing and Photography
Philippines | A Remarkable Journey with Light and Sound | April 2. 2017 | Richie Quirino, author of The Amen Vibration. | |||
Donna Miscolta, Author of “Hola and Goodbye” | February 17 | A short story collection of Mexican-American immigrants. | ||||
A Memoirist of the Marcos Years. Part 1 | December 31. 2016 | Susan Quimpo, Subversive Lives | ||||
A Memoirist of the Marcos Years, Part 2 | December 31. 2016 | Susan Quimpo, Subversive Lives | ||||
A Memoirist of the Marcos Years, Part 3 | December 3, 2017—interview in June 2017 | Susan Quimpo, Subversive Lives, Book tour in US and discussion on extra-judicial killings with Filipino-Americans. | ||||
Launching “The Rise of the Pinoy” | July 7, 2016 | Motivational/self-help; entrepreneurs on their projects | ||||
A Filipino Graphic Novelist | June 22, 2016 | Comics scene in the author’s work and the Philippines | ||||
The Workshops of Filipino Screenwriter Ricky Lee | February 28, 2016 | Celebrated writer and influential teacher on his workshops | ||||
Seize the Moment | July 2, 2015 | Photography | ||||
Corregidor at the Mouth of Manila Bay– | September 30, 2015 | The island and its place in war history | ||||
Writer, Lawyer, Literary Agent, Part 1 | January 13, 2015 | Andrea Pasion-Flores on her developing career. | ||||
Writer, Lawyer, Literary Agent, Part 2 | January 28, 2015 | The short story collection For Love and Kisses | ||||
The Ones Who Leave and the Ones Who Get Left– | March 15, 2013 | Lysley Tenorio’s short story collection, Monstress | ||||
The Author of “When the de la Cruz Family Danced” | January 4, 2012 | Novel of Filipino-American family in southern California | ||||
The Author of “Astigirl” | May 3, 2011 | Coming-of-age memoir | ||||
Seize the Moment | July 2, 2015 | Photography | ||||
Korea | More on North Korea | Forthcoming | Dr. Sandra Fahy’s second book on NK | |||
Evolution of an Intercultural Text– | March 9, 2017 | Downloadable textbook for Korean students of English | ||||
David Mason, Promoting Traditional Korean Culture | March 17, 2013 | Life and works. | ||||
Author Interview on Krys Lee’s “How I Became a North Korean” | November 21, 2016 | Novel based on activism for North Koreans | ||||
Stories of Korea and Koreans, Well Told | November 13, 2013 | Krys Lee’s short story collection, Drifting House. | ||||
Listening to Famine in North Korea | December 21, 2011 | Anthropology, interviews with famine survivors by Dr. Sandra Fahy | ||||
The Dreams Man | September 11, 2010 (interview in 1994) | Jeremy Seligson, Korean Birth Dreams. | ||||
Korea and Japan | Trailbasian, Black Women in Asia, Part 1 | January 1, 2018 | TK McLennon, the anthology of women writers | |||
Trailbasian, Black Women in Asia, Part 2 | February 1, 2018 | TK McLennon’s own experience |
A Korean women and an expat executive
Business/Working
Philippines | From Academia to Video Games and Beyond | May 23, 2012 | Academic vs. capitalist employment | |||
Rise and Fall in a Filipino Market | December 30, 2010 | Selling fruit in Marikina Market. | ||||
Korea | Twenty Years in and out of Korea | May 24, 2013 | Improvements in Korea and the speaker himself | |||
More Than One Right Way, Part 1 | February 18, 20011 (interview in 1994) | Banking in Korea | ||||
More Than One Right Way, Part 2 | February 24, 2011 (interview in 1994) | Banking in Korea | ||||
More Than One Right Way, Part 3 | March 3, 2011 (interview in 1994) | Banking in Korea | ||||
Lady Luck Helps Make Changes, Part 1 | July 4 (interviews in 1995) | Experiences of two Western company executives. | ||||
Lady Luck Helps Make Changes, Part 2 | July 11 (interviews in 1995). | |||||
Two Women in the Korean Workplace | June 6, 2010 (interviews in 2000 and 2002 | Experiences in the workplace | ||||
Working with Women Workers | May 23, 2010 (Interview around 1990) | Ministry to female factory workers | ||||
Japan | Cindy Starts a Business in Japan | October 13, 2016 | A former in-house lawyer starts a language services business | |||
A Question of Trust in Japan | April 4, 2011 | Experience in the computer programming business | ||||
China | Caught in the Middle– | January 19, 2013 (interview 1986) | An interpreter-trainer caught between the Chinese and Hong Kong/Westerners. | |||
No Gold-Plated Chopsticks | August 16, 2012 (interview in 1986) | Liaising for foreign businesses | ||||
The Last Contract | March 4, 2010 (interview in 1986). | A builder’s frustrations | ||||
In and around a Chinese Shipyard | September 15, 2009 (interview in 1985) | Building luxury yachts with impoverised workers |
Patrick and his Japanese students
Education/Language learning/Research
Philippines | Shining up Your English for the Call Center | July 31, 2011 | Training, including accent polishing | |||
Korea | International Kids, Part 1 | October 21, 2015 | Differences between a private international school in Seoul and the student’s school in Texas | |||
International Kids, Part 2– | November 10, 2015. | His sister with similar and different comparisons | ||||
Misspelling “Embarrassed” in Korea | August 20, 2015 | A teacher’s working conditions | ||||
From Adjunct Faculty to Korean Faculty | March 1, 2015 | Move from the US to Korea | ||||
Teaching Liberal Arts in Korea, Part 1–J | January 14, 2015 | A classics scholar at Underwood College at Yonsei University | ||||
Teaching Liberal Arts in Korea, Part 2 | February 6, 2015 | A classics scholar at Underwood College at Yonsei University | ||||
Korea, Where the Living is Easy | August 15, 2014 | Teaching in an elementary school and teaching future flight attendants at a university | ||||
Korea Forty Years Later | February 16, 2014 | A former Peace Corps Volunteer on then and now | ||||
Moving On, Part 4 | September 30, 2013. | My teaching in a private, for-profit language school | ||||
Teaching in Kangnam, Seoul | February 2, 2013 | At a middle school | ||||
Moving On, Part 5 | October 16, 2013 | Me at a Dongguk University, language and culture | ||||
A Lecturer in South Korea | August 3, 2012 | A comparison of US and Korea working experience | ||||
Sitting above the Green Elephant, Part 1 | October 9, 2010 | Me at the same Buddhist university, language, culture and textbook wriging | ||||
Sitting above the Green Elephant, Part 2 | November 19, 2010 | Many years at the Buddhist university | ||||
How to Succeed at Languages without Really Trying | January 30, 2010 | My best student on teaching himself the language and culture | ||||
China | Moving On, Part 3 | September 13, 2013 | My experience | |||
Four Chinese Cities, Part 1 | August 16, 2012 | Teaching English in Shenyang and Zhengzhou | ||||
Four Chinese Cities, Part 2 | September 13, 2012 | Teaching in Shanghai | ||||
Four Chinese Cities, Part 3 | September 27, 2012 | Teaching in Shenzhen | ||||
Asking Questions of Chinese Women | March 12, 2012 (interview in 1986) | ). Research on the status of women | ||||
First Year, Second Year | July 24, 2010 | Me on teaching at Xiamen University in 1984-86 | ||||
Japan | A Year and a Half in Japan | December 24, 2014 | ESL in a cram school and a high school | |||
Inside and Outside the Japanese Classroom– | June 7, 2013 (interview in 2006) | ESL to Japanese at home and in the US | ||||
Middle East | Bouncing around the Middle East, Part 1 | September 9, 2014 | Teaching in Kuwait | |||
Bouncing around the Middle East, Part 2 | November 4, 2014 | Teaching in Oman | ||||
Bouncing around the Middle East, Part 3 | November 19, 2014 | Teaching on the West Bank | ||||
Toughing It Out, Part 1 | July 9, 2013 | Teaching in Saudi Arabia. | ||||
Elsewhere in Asia | EFL in Afghanistan, Part 1 | September 11. 2017 | A private university in Kabul and a public university in Heart | |||
EFL in Afghanistan, Part 2 | September 11. 2017 | Girls’ education and research on distance education | ||||
A Teacher in Rural Thailand | June 1, 2014 | A contented American |
Tagayyay physical therapist
Health care
Philippines | Having “Urgent” but not”Emergency” Surgery in the Philippines, Part 1 | April 1, 2015 | Excellent care in Manila, but with a few cultural difficulties | |||
Having “Urgent” but not “Emergency” Surgery in the Philippines, Part 2 | April 15, 2015 | Struggles with the US health insurance provider | ||||
BodyTalk in the Philippines | May 11, 2013 | A practitioner on Body Talk Access | ||||
The Eye Thing | November 4, 2010 | Me on having Lucentis injections for macular degeneration | ||||
Korea and Japan | An Unintended Adventure | December 10, 2016 | Life after a terrible accident | |||
China | Robert’s Appendix | August 26, 2009 (Interview in 1896) | An appendectomy under local anesthetic |
One of Galang’s neighborhood groups at a meeting
Human rights/Politics
Philippines | From a Squatters’ Village to a Housing Project | February 3, 2014 | Involuntary relocation | |||
Galang = Respect for Filipina Lesbians, Part 1 | An NGO on living situations , the law and movement for change | |||||
Galang = Respect for Filipina Lesbians, Part 2 | ||||||
Sunshine Joe through Our Eyes | March 15. 2014 | Aida Aspiras and Imelda Marcos on Marcos’s press secretary, Joe Aspiras | ||||
Scrap Pork | December 10, 2013 | Network against corruption | ||||
Portrait of a Filipina Feminist, Part 1 | February 2, 2013 | Story of a political activist | ||||
Portrait of a Filipina Feminist, Part 2 | February 17, 2013 | Reproductive Health Bill. | ||||
A Writer on Sexual Health, Part 1 | July 6, 2011 | Issues of sexuality in this very Catholic country | ||||
A Writer on Sexual Health, Part 1 | July 18, 2011 | |||||
Filipine Reproductive Health Bill, Part 1 | June 8, 2011 | Why the bill is necessary | ||||
Filipine Reproductive Health Bill, Part 2 | June 21, 2011 | A proponent satirizes the opposition | ||||
Sunshine Joe through Our Eyes | March 15, 2014 | Jose Aspiras as seen by his daughter Aida and Imelda Marcos | ||||
Korea | A South Korean Prisoner of Conscience | January 31, 2012 | A student demonstration leads to 18 months in prison | |||
Looking Back, Part 1 | September 29, 2011 (interview in 2007 | Korea and the assassination of Park Chung-hee | ||||
Looking Back, Part 2 | October 14, 2011 (interview in 2007) | |||||
Looking Back, Part 3 | September 29 and October 14, 2011 (interview in 2007) | |||||
A View of the Korean Women’s Movement | June 20, 2010 (interview in 2001 with supplements). | A professor of women’s studies and others.
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A Priest’s View of Human Rights in Korea | May 9, 2010 (interview in 1989). | The military dictatorships of Park Chung-hee and Chun Doo-hwan | ||||
A Skeptic’s View of the Korean Student Movement | April 25, 2010 (interview around 1991). | An American student’s perspective.
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China | Last Days in China, Part 1 | August 17, 2011 (interview in 1990) | a student of Sino-American relations on the 1989 pro-democracy movement in Tiananmen Square | |||
Last Days in China, Part 2 | September 9, 2011 (interview in 1990). | |||||
In a Chinese “Model Village” | December 17, 2009 | My look at at the new Responsibility System in 1986 |
Feast in Iloilo
Lifestyles
Philippines | Filipino Squatters’ Tales, Part 1 | December 6, 2012 | Living with the threat of demolition. | |||
Filipino Squatters’ Tales, Part 2 | January 22, 2011 | Another home, living conditions and fears | ||||
Filipino Food | January 22, 2011 | Iloilo with Filipino friends, plus a recipe | ||||
Korea | In the Bathhouse— | November 12, 2011 (interview in 1989 | Experiences of a young Englishwoman bathhouse.
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Korean Births, Deaths and Marriages— | September 24, 2010 (interview in 1997) | Observations of a Catholic priest | ||||
Confucian Ways of Life and Death.
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January 17, 2010 (interview in 1989). | Deference and traditional funeral practices | ||||
At a Village Wedding | At a Village Wedding | Traveling north and observing the wedding |
Skarlet Brown (Myra Ruaro)
Music
Philippines | Ryan Villamor on Music | Forthcoming | ||||
Jireh Calo Graduates from Berklee | Forthcoming | Music school study and prospects for the future | ||||
Baihana’s First Album | September 23, 2016 | Mel Torre’s update on the group’s success | ||||
A Filipina Jazz Singer in Japan, Manila and Hong Kong | April 22, 2016. | The singer on the yakusa, men bearing gifts and audiences. | ||||
A Filipino Jazz Musician and Jazz Journalist | September 8, 2015 | Richie Quirino, author of the documentary Pinoy Jazz. | ||||
Benefit for a Filipino Musician | August 5, 2015 | Heart of Music, an NGO for musicians needing medical care | ||||
Jireh Calo, A Filipina Musician on Her Way | February 14, 2015 | A student at the Berklee School of Music in Boston. | ||||
A Filipina Vocal Group at Tago Jazz Cafe | December 3, 2014 | Baihana, as individuals and as a group | ||||
The Only Place for Jazz in the Philippines | September 4 2014) | Jazz club owner on non-commercial jazz | ||||
China | Mother and Musician, Part 2 | March 26, 2011 (interview in 1986) | Performing American folk music in China.
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Little boy gets stuff. in Zambales
Offering Help
Philippines | Filipino Volunteers Help the Disadvantaged | March 29, 2016 | At the Go Volunteer Expo | |||
Making Donations in Rural Zambales | July 18, 2015 | The soup kitchen man on donations to a remote elementary school and church | ||||
Puzzle Gourmet Store and Cafe, Serving a Special Need | May 31, 2015 | Employment and therapy for people with autism and Downs Syndrome | ||||
Love Surge for Haiyan/Yolanda Victims | October 20, 2014 | . A celebration of survival with a book, song, poems and inventions | ||||
The Man behind the Soup Kitchen, Part 1 | April 15, 2014 | A mission to feed the poor | ||||
The Man behind the Soup Kitchen, Part 2– | April 29, 2014 | A mission to feed the poor | ||||
Among Filipino Mountain Tribes– | January 20, 2014 | Theatrical exercises and native myths among tribes | ||||
Skateboarding in the Philippines– | January 6, 2014 | Supporting skateboarding facilities for the poor | ||||
A Marine in Tacloban | December 23, 2013 | A US Marine on the relief effort after Typhon Yolanda | ||||
A Family Journey to Tacloban and Leyte | November 27, 2013 | After Yolanda, three family members check on relatives | ||||
At a Filipino Soup Kitchen | July 3, 2012 | A photo essay of shopping, cooking, waiting and distributing food | ||||
A Personal Crusade | March 29, 2012 | Feed the homeless and making donations to local schools | ||||
Korea
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Becoming Useful | February 3, 2014 | A Korean-American neurosurgeon on training surgeons in developing countries |
Children in BASECO
Photo essays
Philippines | Photos of BASECO on Manila Bay– | August 28, 2016 (photos from 2007). | Bob Barton’s photos of a squatter community | |||
Hanging Out in Tagaytay | March 31. 2013 | Some spots in Tagaytay | ||||
Korea | A Winter Walk up Gyoungju’s South Mountain | January 11, 2010 (Photos from the 1990,) | Confucian tombs and Buddhist images | |||
A Photo Tour of Bulguk Temple | February 22, 2010 | Kyongju area Buddhist temple, one of the three most famous in Korea | ||||
China | A Walk in a Chinese Port Town | August 19, 2009 | Xiamen, Fujian in 1985.
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Dougherty family at their party
Relationships
Philippines | American Man, Filipina “Wives” in Court | Forthcoming | Two court battles with the women he thought he’d married | |||
Korea | Korea and the Reluctant Expat Male | June 6, 2012 (interview in 1989) | An American s confrontations with Korean sexual mores | |||
American Wife, Korean Husband, Part 1 | February 7, 2010 (interview in 1988). | The wife on cultural differences inside her marriage.
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American Wife, Korean Husband, Part 2 | February 13, 2010 (interview in 1992). | Another woman on cultural differences inside a marriage | ||||
Korea and Japan | What Went Right and What Didn’t, Part 1 | November 9, 2012 | Marriage, work and cultural adjustment | |||
Japan | What Went Right and What Didn’t, Part 1 | November 9, 2012 | Marriage, work and cultural adjustment | |||
A Family Man in Japan | June 26, 2013 | A British freelance translator takes about marriage, children and contentment | ||||
My First Japanese Family | January 17, 2012 | An American woman on the the extended family of her first Japanese husband |
In the Chogye Temple in Seoul
Religious/spiritual Practice
Philippines | A Monk from the Matayog Health and Wellness Center | September 29, 2017 | A “universal monk” with Hindu training on practice and behavior | |||
Synchronicity | April 14, 2013 | A Filipino on his practice of Tibetan Buddhism and his trip to India | ||||
The First Heal-Om Festival | October 26, 2012 | Photo essay of an event on healing, spirituality, natural products and disaster survival | ||||
First 10-Day Vipassana Meditation Retreat | April 29, 2012 | Me on the retreat and a comparison with temple stays in Korea | ||||
The Korean Mountain Spirit | April 27, 2013 | The spirit and its connection with spiritual/religious practices | ||||
A Meditation Teacher’s Last Talk | April 15, 2012 | A Buddhist monk on meditation and finding one’s path in life | ||||
Buddhism at a Cultural Intersection | February 7, 2011 (interview in 1992) | A Buddhist Center to teach foreigners about Korean Buddhism | ||||
The Man behind “Spiritpower,” Part 1 | December 10, 2010 | A former Buddhist monk on the meditation process | ||||
The Man behind “Spiritpower,” Part 2 | December 18, 2010 | |||||
An Apprentice Temple Painter | December 6, 2009 (interview in 1992). | How he learned his craft
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A Look at Korean Shamanism | November 23, 2009 (interview in 1993) | An anthropologist on Korean shamanism | ||||
China | A Monk’s Tale | January 5, 2010 (interview in 1986) | a Buddhist monk in Hong Kong on his ordination, life, and trip to the PRC | |||
Japan | Japanese-style Meditation Practice | February 13, 2012 (interview in 2005) | Meditation in Japan and outside San Francisco |
Photo introducing the first chapter
Transitions/Cultural differences
Philippines | From Metro Manila to Cavite Province, Part 1 | May 4, 2017 | My my move to Tagaytay. | |||
From Metro Manila to Cavite Province, Part 2 | June 1, 2017 | Adjusting to life in the province | ||||
Moving On, Part 6 | October 31, 2013 | My decision to retire in the Philippines | ||||
A Charmed Life | January 3, 2013 | One form of expat lifestyle | ||||
Becoming an Expat | November 13, 2012 | A civil engineer finds here what he could not find at home | ||||
The Last Big Move | July 19, 2012 | My 2007 move from Seoul to Quezon City, Metro Manila | ||||
The Great Flood, Part 1- | October 11, 2009 | Our experience of Typhoon Ondoy | ||||
The Great Flood, Part 2 | October 19, 2009 | What we lost and what we gained | ||||
The Great Flood, Part 3 | October 22, 2010 | A follow-up a year later | ||||
Philippines and Korea
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The Best of Three Worlds, Part 1 | July 1, 2014 | A Filipina on her life in the Philippines, in Korea, and in the US | |||
The Best of Three Worlds, Part 2 | July 4, 2014 | A continuation of the story | ||||
Korea | A Vision List | August 4. 2016 | The changes in a woman’s life before and after moving to Korea. | |||
Silvia Wilson Moves to South Korea (a memorial post of “A Mainer Goes to South Korea” | March 28, 2014 and November 29, 2010 | Finding employment and contentment in Korea.
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Return to Korea | June 20, 2012 | My feelings on a trip to Seoul | ||||
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Military Linguists, Part 1 | March 29, 2010 (interview in 1995) | A serviceman fluent in Korean discuss his life in Korea and his wife’s life as a Korean orphan | |||
Military Linguists, Part 2 | April 5, 2010 (interview around 1995) | Culture shock, language and cultural differences with his Korean girlfriend. .
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Military Linguists, Part 3 | April 12, 2010 (interviews around 1995 | Cultural differences—an American and a Korean in the US and ROK armies | ||||
An Irishman’s Culture Shock | January 24, 2010 (interview in 1992 | Personal and work experiences of a long-time resident.
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The Story of a Korean War Baby | October 27, 2009 (interview in 1999 | Life of a Korean and-African-American woman | ||||
Japan | From Japan to North America, Reverse Culture Shock
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October 31, 2016 | Returning from three stints in Japan, totaling twelve years.
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Almost a Japanese Housewife | May 11, 2012 | An Australian on her life in Japan
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China | “Mafan” or Chinese Hassles | “Mafan” or Chinese Hassles | Two bizarre, everyday happenings in China.
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On the Court in Xiamen, China | November 27, 2011 (interviews in 1986). | Two tall foreign students on playing basketball on university teams.
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Finding Contentment in Mainland China | September 16, 2011 | A Canadian on teaching English in China | ||||
An Englishman in the People’s Republic, Part 1 | April 23, and 24, 2011 (interview in 1986) | A foreign student on sex, sexual repression and lack of privacy in the PRC | ||||
An Englishman in the People’s Republic, Part 2 | May 17, 2011 (interview in 1986) | The student on food, drink and hashish.
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An Englishman in the People’s Republic, Part 3 | May 24, 2011 (interview in 1986) | The student’s experience with health care | ||||
Mother and Musician, Part 1 | March 18, 2011 (interview in 1986). | The mother of a white baby interacts with curious Chinese | ||||
At the Friendship Hotel | 2010 (interview in 1986). | Foreign ghetto life in Beijing in 1979-80 | ||||
Elsewhere | Moving On, Part 1 | August 11, 2013 | My life in the US and in Europe. | |||
Moving On, Part 2 | August 24, 2013 | My life in the US and in Europe. | ||||
Toughing It Out, Part 2 | July 23, 2013. | Staying in Nepal after the theft of money and passport |
Travel
Philippines | Journey to the Philippines, Part 1–May 15, 2016 | May 15, 2016 (guest post) | A trip to the author’s birthplace and childhood home | |||
Journey to the Philippines, Part 2–June 3, 2016. | June 3, 2016 | Returned for a wedding and more family history | ||||
Following the Plan through Southeast Asia, Part 2 | May 17, 2014.
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China | The Traveling Economist, Part 1 | August 8, 2010 (interview in 1986). | Business, the black market and assorted thieving | |||
The Traveling Economist, Part 2 | August 14, 2010 (interview in 1986 | Taveling and talking to people under harsh conditions | ||||
In the Mongolian Grasslands | December 10, 2011 (interview in 1986) | Traveling in minority and off-limits areas | ||||
The Second Journey into Tibet | March 17, 2010 (interview in 1986) | A long journey on the back of a truck with 23 Tibetans, following Alexandra David-Neel | ||||
In Xinjiang on the Old Silk Road | September 28, 2009 (Interview in 1986) | Tensions between the Uighur population and the Han government | ||||
Elsewhere in Asia | Following the Plan through Southeast Asia, Part 1 | May 1, 2014 | Misadventures in Asia | |||
In Indonesia among the Damudani | July 7, 2017 | Encounters with a remote tribe in the highlands |