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It will have to be three (1)Boat trip on the Sangker River from Battambang to Siem Reap, Cambodia (12 hours)during the dry season.(2)Marching around the foot of Edinburgh Castle with 10,000 other pipers and drummers at Millenium pipefest (3)Driving from Luang Prabang through the Hmong mountain-top villages to Phonsavan and the mysterious Plain of Jars in North-Central Laos.

borrowed quotes:
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime. ~Mark Twain (from Malena23)

"From childhood's hour I have not been as others were
I have not seen as others saw
I could not bring my passions from a common spring
From the same source I have not taken my sorrow
I could not awake my heart to joy at the same tone
And all I loved - I loved alone"

E.A.Poe (from Aquedita)


BREATHES there the man with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
'This is my own, my native land!'
Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd
As home his footsteps he hath turn'd
From wandering on a foreign strand? - sir walter scott