What would travel be without a few comical anecdotes, right? If it isn’t missing your flight out of South Korea because your experienced drive missed the exit to Seoul (a big city with several exits, if your following along at home) then its sleeping in the Bangkok airport overnight (because you missed your on […]
Archive for March 5th, 2007
It seems we have some strong nay-sayeres in the camp.
I published a journal entry in my personal blog of our activities yesterday visiting the village and seeing first hand micro-finance in action.
Anonymous posted this comment a short while later:
“Anonymous has left a new comment on your post “breaking the cycle of poverty“:
This is quite frankly […]
We visited the statue of Buddha yesterday, very cool. It’s the tallest standing monolith, standing at 72 ft, and is placed on the rock of Gibraltar in the waters of the Hussain Sagar. It was built over a two year period, by about 200 sculptors. Very impressive.
However, the best part of this event was […]
Susan, Erin and I had our palms read yesterday…I was actually abit nervous. Palm reading was somewhat taboo in my upbringing…power of the self fulfilling prophecy and all that.
Anyway, I swallowed my anxiety, and for better or worse decided to proceed…it turns out that our palm reader might have been a ‘motivational palm-reader’ because it seems […]