April 2011

Survey: Where Should Roving Gastronome Go?

by zora on April 27, 2011

Big news here at RG HQ: I think I’m getting more…mature. A little wiser. At least in the field of travel. After, oh, 20 years of slogging around the world being rigorously independent, I’m finally realizing there’s tremendous value in putting yourself in the hands of experts. In the last couple of years, I’ve had [...]

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Thailand, Let Me Count the Ways, part 2

by zora on April 25, 2011

So, all this, and I would love to say the Thais are my people, that I have found my true heart-home on the globe. And yet. And yet… I can’t. There is a connection that isn’t happening, some part of me that doesn’t throw off sparks when I come into contact with Thailand. I have [...]

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Thailand, Let Me Count the Ways, part 1

by zora on April 18, 2011

Ah, Thailand. The whole time I was there, I was making a mental list of all the ways in which I am totally down with Thai culture. The Thais and I—we are copacetic. For example: 1. Take your shoes off. Aside from appealing to my sense of hygiene and aesthetics, the no-shoes thing is great [...]

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Adventures with an Extrovert, part 2

by zora on April 11, 2011

(read Part 1) This trip to Bangkok, Peter proposed exactly three activities: 1. Stay at the Atlanta Hotel and maybe write a little at their funky old writing desks. 2. Eat at Soul Food Mahanakorn. 3. Go to that crazy market that the train goes through. I said, “OK, fine, but we have to go [...]

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