Michael M. posted an article on In My Opinion - An Independent Traveler's Guide Through The Galaxy - May 27, 2011, 6:56 pm
Is the daily work grind or the continual schoolwork bringing you down? Is your wanderlust inner voice telling you you’re ready for a travel vacation? Yet this year you want a different travel objective, not the typical vacation, designed around personal pleasure and leisure. This year you also fee...
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Michael M. posted an article on In My Opinion - An Independent Traveler's Guide Through The Galaxy - Apr 5, 2011, 2:14 pm
“From out of nowhere the smallest kid came. Nobody knew him, not even his name. These mean guys laughed and ripped the kid’s shirt but this little kid refused to be hurt. He stood and looked ‘em straight in the eye, daring those bullies to even come try. There was no way they could hurt his pr...
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Michael M. posted an article on In My Opinion - An Independent Traveler's Guide Through The Galaxy - Feb 28, 2010, 8:12 pm
“We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.” T.S. Eliot The Little Gidding As I was cycling within the mystical grounds of Suko...
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Michael M. posted an article on In My Opinion - An Independent Traveler's Guide Through The Galaxy - Feb 28, 2010, 8:12 pm
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Michael M. posted an article on In My Opinion - An Independent Traveler's Guide Through The Galaxy - Nov 12, 2009, 7:55 pm
( Writings from my South America travels ) Over the course of my journey to the Ecuadorian Amazon, I manage to shed the layers of civilization with each transitional form of transportation: first the hectic Quito taxi ride, then the flight that traversed the ecozone extremes, from the snow-capped A...
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Michael M. posted an article on In My Opinion - An Independent Traveler's Guide Through The Galaxy - Nov 12, 2009, 7:55 pm
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Michael M. posted an article on In My Opinion - An Independent Traveler's Guide Through The Galaxy - Oct 23, 2009, 1:59 pm
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Michael M. posted an article on In My Opinion - An Independent Traveler's Guide Through The Galaxy - Oct 23, 2009, 1:59 pm
(Writings from my Nepal / China Travels) “Is it not easy to be a wise man on top of a mountain”. W. Somerset Maugham —- from The Razor’s Edge My room was basic, quiet and achingly cold. Begrudgingly, I shuffled my body away from the warm multi-layered blankets and sleeping bag, turning my...
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Michael M. posted an article on In My Opinion - An Independent Traveler's Guide Through The Galaxy - Oct 1, 2009, 7:54 pm
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Michael M. posted an article on In My Opinion - An Independent Traveler's Guide Through The Galaxy - Oct 1, 2009, 7:54 pm
(Writings from my recent Southeast Asia Travels, sometime in mid-March) Remember, when exploring Angkor Wat, it’s best to arrive at the crack of dawn. That’s the bewitching hour when the Khmer ancestral faces embedded in the temple rocks come alive! While other tourists waited patiently in fro...
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Michael M. posted an article on In My Opinion - An Independent Traveler's Guide Through The Galaxy - Sep 8, 2009, 4:12 pm
(Writing excerpt from my South America travels) What I did on my summer vacation…. Completing my sixth week exploring Camp Ecuador, I decided with one week left before returning back to the States to venture north to Columbia….Camp Columbia. An auspicious beginning, the border crossing was pa...
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Michael M. posted an article on In My Opinion - An Independent Traveler's Guide Through The Galaxy - Sep 8, 2009, 4:12 pm
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Michael M. posted an article on In My Opinion - An Independent Traveler's Guide Through The Galaxy - Aug 20, 2009, 9:59 pm
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Michael M. posted an article on In My Opinion - An Independent Traveler's Guide Through The Galaxy - Aug 20, 2009, 9:59 pm
The August political doldrums have arrived, Congress is in recess and President Obama, after having already given us six months presidential service, has gone on vacation. What better time to evaluate his job performance, catching the politicians off-guard. If CNN can do it, so can I. After six mon...
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Michael M. posted an article on In My Opinion - An Independent Traveler's Guide Through The Galaxy - Aug 9, 2009, 5:18 pm
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Michael M. posted an article on In My Opinion - An Independent Traveler's Guide Through The Galaxy - Aug 9, 2009, 5:18 pm
(Writings from my recent Southeast Asia travels) The tour to the Hill tribe villages began innocently. We started our journey in Chiang Mai, chauffeured in a nice a/c minibus, watching the city limits gradually fade into a serene countryside. We were driving north to the mountains, an infamous regi...
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Michael M. posted an article on In My Opinion - An Independent Traveler's Guide Through The Galaxy - Jul 22, 2009, 4:29 pm
( Writings from my recent Southeast Asia travels ) HIHO, HIHO, it’s down the Ho Chi Minh Trail I go! The journey south began on an overnight sleeper bus. Picture a train sleeper car, equipped with bunk beds, only inside a bus; a dorm on wheels. China’s overnight buses are very similar. Since ...
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Michael M. posted an article on In My Opinion - An Independent Traveler's Guide Through The Galaxy - Jul 22, 2009, 4:29 pm
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Michael M. posted an article on In My Opinion - An Independent Traveler's Guide Through The Galaxy - Jul 22, 2009, 3:47 pm
(Writings from my recent Southeast Asia travels) Cliche or no cliche, after such a wonderful day I had yesterday cycling through the countryside waving to hundreds of Vietnamese saying “HELLO!” I’m unabashedly ready to proclaim, nay, open the bedroom window shutters and joyously shout, to a s...
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Michael M. posted an article on In My Opinion - An Independent Traveler's Guide Through The Galaxy - Jul 22, 2009, 3:47 pm
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Michael M. posted an article on In My Opinion - An Independent Traveler's Guide Through The Galaxy - Feb 22, 2009, 3:41 am
…Thank you for stopping by. The Pecoskid is currently out of his cyber office. He has gone traveling. This time of year, in New Mexico, it is cold while in Southeast Asia, it is not. Need I say more. The search for the endless summer continues. I have left the keys to the country with President O...
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