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By Lauren Girardin
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 Sign at Angkor Park | Photo by Lauren Girardin Before Todd and I left on our round-the-world trip, we debated whether or not we wanted to visit certain countries, concerned that money we spent would help support a repressive government or military. With the U.S. government's well-known evils, we certainly couldn't take a holier-than-thou approach, but we still wanted to minimize our traveling cash adding to the grief of anyone. We're hippies like that.
Places like Burma, China, Malaysia, and Turkey were all on the chopping block. Some countries made it onto our route. Others didn't. When it came to Cambodia however, we didn't even know enough to know to consider it. Now we do, so we want to share.
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By Todd Berman
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Thurs, September 3, 2009 |
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 And Kala Devours it All, Bangkok, ThailandSOLD, mixed media on paper, 8" x 10"
When my friend Travis commissioned a drawing of Bangkok, Thailand, he gave me an interesting assignment:
"What I remember best about traveling is observing the commotion of these places packed with other people going about their lives, but somehow feeling apart from it all, taking it in but not having to abide by the same daily routines or the shackles of time and place."
"I like the idea of the anonymous throngs of people in habitual motions against the backdrop of places, sights or scenes that a traveler or visitor would consider less ordinary."
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By Lauren Girardin
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Thurs, October 16, 2008 |
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 Voting for Obama from overseas | Photo by Todd Berman The California ballot for the November 2008 election is a doozie – seven pages long. As we mentioned a few months ago, we downloaded our ballots from the San Francisco Department of Elections website and will fax them from India (since they want 3.50USD per page here in Istanbul). Since we're making the complex effort to vote from the global road, we hope each and every one of you will vote on November 4.
> October 20 is the last day to register to vote in California! Slacker? Do it now.
We researched the candidates and issues online as best we could, relying mostly on the analysis presented in a variety of informed endorsement slates, including the San Francisco Bay Guardian, SPUR, and the San Francisco Chronicle (which we generally don't agree with on local propositions, but it's good to know both sides).
Over IM, one of our friends wrote "I want to hire someone smart to vote for me." Todd and I definitely dork out over politics. So, while we can't legally ask you to pay us for that service, we can share our opinion in case you would like to crib off our answer sheet. We certainly don't expect you to agree with each of our positions. To vote by fax, we had to give up our right to a private ballot, so we thought we'd really take the sharing to a whole new level.
Here's how we voted:
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By Lauren Girardin
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Sun, January 3, 2010 |
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 All night shopping in Hong Kong | Photo by Lauren Girardin
The social melee in Hong Kong’s Mong Kok neighborhood induces our first bout of culture shock on this trip. Most of the past three months we’ve traveled slowly overland through swaths of mellow and, relative to Hong Kong, underpopulated Southeast Asia. Here, we face a wall of people every way we turn.
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By Lauren Girardin
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Sun, March 1, 2009 |
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 Photo courtesy Joshua Berman Let's leave the rice noodles, fish sauce, and sweet pineapples of Southeast Asia for a moment to join Todd's brother Joshua Berman, guidebook and travel writer. Lately, Josh has been working as the location specialist on Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern's upcoming Nicaragua episode.
Zimmern's TV show led Todd and I to feast on an unusual salad in Hanoi (more on that in a future post) and inspired our friend Scott to try sausage pizza for the very first time. Everyone has their boundaries to break.
Both Joshua and Zimmern write about working on the "Bizarre Foods Nicaragua" episode, which airs on June 2, 2009. Unfortunately, this is just before Todd and I return to the States, so friends, you're on your own to host a "Bizarre Foods Nicaragua" viewing party complete with a casserole of bulls' testicles, armadillo surprise, and a several bottles of Flor de Caña.
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