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Make a Run for the Border: Getting Visas in Southeast Asia

By Robert Schrader on June 29, 2011 in Asia, Cambodia, Featured, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Photos, Singapore, Southeast Asia, Thailand, Vietnam

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Southeast Asia is an attractive region of the world to spend several weeks — or, if you have it, several months–of your time. Its nations comprise a huge variety of landscapes, from the jungle-covered hills...

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Butterflies, Lagoons and Magic in Vang Vieng, Laos

By Robert Schrader on June 8, 2011 in Asia, Laos, Photos, Southeast Asia

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Located roughly halfway between the city of Luang Prabang in the north and Lao capital Vientiane to the south, Vang Vieng is a town so small it doesn’t appear on most maps. In spite of...

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Preparing a Tandem Bicycle for the Andes and Amazon

By Claire Rogers on May 25, 2011 in Asia, Cambodia, Featured, Laos, Photos, Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet

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How To Rebuild a Rear Hub For Gonzo Touring This is what our tandem’s 8 speed cassette looked like after 3,000 miles in Asia; Tibet, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand. Now 3,000 miles is not a...

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Westmoreland, Abrams and Petraeus, Views of War

By Claire Rogers on May 2, 2011 in Afghanistan, Asia, Events, Featured, Iraq, Laos, Middle East, Photos, Southeast Asia, Vietnam

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General Westmoreland’s Vietnam War To give you an idea about the misplaced bravado that marked the first years of the U.S. military in Southeast Asia, Life Magazine quoted General Westmorland about the prospects for the war: “We’re going...

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Battle, Lam Son 719: Tchepone, Laos and the Hoh Chi Minh Trail

By Claire Rogers on April 20, 2011 in Asia, Featured, Laos, Photos, Vietnam

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We were more than a little nervous, as we rode our tandem up to the first security station at the border between Laos and Vietnam. Claire, a Western woman with a passport saying she was...

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Tchepone, Laos and the Southeast Asian War I

By Claire Rogers on April 8, 2011 in Laos, Photos, Southeast Asia, Vietnam

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In my lifetime, we’ve gone to war, and won or lost, in a disturbingly recurring pattern: The politicians, responding to world events feel the pressure from former military and patriotic citizens, to do something. A...

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Laos: Temples, Forces and Culture

By John Boivin on March 15, 2011 in Asia, Featured, Laos, Photos

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An ancient temple sits on top of Mount Phousey in Luang Prabang, the old capital of Laos. You climb the 300-odd steps (unhelpfully counted out by a sign half-way up) leading to the temple...

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Laotian Time Bombs: A War’s Explosive Environmental Legacy

By Claire Rogers on February 14, 2011 in Asia, Featured, Laos, Photos

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Maybe we didn’t focus enough on these deadly little guys in our many presentations of our In Search of Shangri-La adventure. We got lost for two days along a little traveled branch of the Hoh...

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Claire Rogers writes on cross-cultural adventure drawn from her travels across the Silk Road from Beijing to Istanbul, around Australia and of course, through Iceland–all by bike.

She’s currently traveling by tandem with her husband Bob, through southwest China, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand. Check out NewBohemians.net for more information on their travels.

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Make a Run for the Border: Getting Visas in Southeast Asia

Butterflies, Lagoons and Magic in Vang Vieng, Laos

Preparing a Tandem Bicycle for the Andes and Amazon

Westmoreland, Abrams and Petraeus, Views of War

Battle, Lam Son 719: Tchepone, Laos and the Hoh Chi Minh Trail

Tchepone, Laos and the Southeast Asian War I

Laos: Temples, Forces and Culture

Laotian Time Bombs: A War’s Explosive Environmental Legacy

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