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I watched the first game of the world cup in Hong Kong. We stood outside of a bar watching it on a tv in the window. 100 or so people gathered in the street with us; beers were aplenty. Other pedestrians hurried through us as they made their way to some other drinking hole to [...]
Filed by ryanroth at June 28th, 2010 under General Radness, Life, Our World
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That is what Jay labeled Hong Kong. A little rough around the edges, but the remains of British control are evident everywhere. In HK the folks drive on the left side, spitting is outlawed, and English widespread. Lines exist, the people are a little heavier, littering frowned upon (steep fines), and the beaches clean. It [...]
Filed by ryanroth at June 28th, 2010 under General Radness, Life, Our World
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China is wet down here in the south. The past ten days or so we have been in Guangxi province. Guilin, Ping’an, Yangshou. All are awesome in their own respect. And because of that I’ve been had little time to write about my experience. I’ll get some of that taken care of on the train [...]
Filed by ryanroth at June 10th, 2010 under Life, Our World
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Many of my most interesting experiences in China occur while en route to our destination. Not exhilerating or glorious, interesting. I just got off of a bus that took me us from Tankou, Anhui Province to Tanxi, Anhui Province. Just as when we traveled via bus from Hangzhou to Tankou the other day when we [...]
Filed by ryanroth at June 2nd, 2010 under Life, Our World
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When we first stumbled out of the clean confines of the international terminal in Taipei I was shocked by the preponderance of scooters and the seeming disregard by all vehicles for any sort of traffic rules. I may have mentioned this before – my first impressions were wrong. There are rules for the vehicles, especially [...]
Filed by ryanroth at May 26th, 2010 under General Radness, Life, Our World, Politik
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Taiwan is filled with scooters. They fill the streets, ride in packs, and get special treatment on the roads. It seems that scootering if life here, so naturally we decided to get in on the action. About that in a bit.
After escaping Taipei via a three hour train ride we (Kristen, Taylor, Jay & I) [...]
Filed by ryanroth at May 22nd, 2010 under General Radness, Our World
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Taipei reminds me of Okinawa. The jungle, the temperature, the density, the smell, the cars, and even the people.
Kristen and I took different flights and arrived one hour apart. Public transport (bus & train) delivered us to our hostel by 8 am; the train was more crowded than I have ever seen before.
Some other [...]
Filed by ryanroth at May 18th, 2010 under General Radness, Life, Our World
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Filed by ryanroth at October 16th, 2008 under Our World, Politik
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So I just drove home from buying some honey, coffee, and red peppers from whole foods (circa 8:00 pm, read: dark). I turned onto my street to see three teenage boys turn and stare at me from the sidewalk as my headlights shined on them. They were walking a dog and looked pretty scared of [...]
Filed by ryanroth at September 27th, 2008 under Life, Our World
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Yep. That’s coming from a guy who has never even smoked a cigarette. Our prohibition policy (click me!) is just plain stupid, economically and socially.
The United States spent > $13,000,000,000 last year on the drug war alone. Hmmmm, if we repurposed that money, could it be used to cover healthcare for all of our citizens [...]
Filed by ryanroth at March 31st, 2008 under Dijyano, Our World
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