Vietnam's Mekong Delta (I) - Hot, Wet, Green
"Ceaselessly the river flows, and yet the water is never the same, while in the still pools the shifting foam gathers and is gone, never...
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edgardavidboshart
Dec 10, 20184 min read
Vietnam Redo: Emperors and Gods
(Hue, Vietnam, part 2) Emperors and gods are sometimes (usually!) indistinguishable. In Asia, and especially looming China, central...
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edgardavidboshart
Dec 5, 20183 min read
Vietnam Redo: The Way to Hue ("way")
The Perfume River (Sông Hương or Hương Giang; 香江) crosses the city of Huế, in the central Vietnamese province of Thừa Thiên-Huế Province....
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edgardavidboshart
Nov 30, 20183 min read
Vietnam Redo (part 7): Sailin' Ha Long (on the Bay)
I’ve spent a night on Halong Bay, on the coast of North Vietnam, twice. Both times, I thoroughly enjoyed the experience — (1) hauling...
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edgardavidboshart
Nov 23, 20183 min read
Vietnam Redo: Water and Buffalo in the North Country
It is finally time to leave Hanoi, the city, for a gambit in the countryside. But it takes time, as the metropolis is far-flung, hanging...
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edgardavidboshart
Nov 6, 20182 min read
Vietnam Redo: Post-War Flowers, Fruit and Rice
Vietnam today is, of course, a different place than in the previous century. Changes have been significant in government,...
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edgardavidboshart
Nov 2, 20185 min read
Vietnam Redo (part 4): War Paint
At one time, in the last century, Americans dabbed charcoal-tinted war paint on their faces and attempted to subdue a combined imperial...
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edgardavidboshart
Oct 26, 20182 min read
Vietnam Redo (part 3): Long and Tall
I have always wanted to ask a puppet, in private, what it is like to be enslaved and forced to do its master’s bidding, subject to being...
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edgardavidboshart
Oct 24, 20183 min read
Vietnam Redo (part 2): Peace and Mayhem
Hanoi (Ha Noi, “river’s inner”) is a large sprawling beehive(s) of activity, spotted with large construction projects and relentless...
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edgardavidboshart
Oct 18, 20184 min read
Vietnam Redo; 2018 (Intro)
I visited North Vietnam the first time roughly 10 years ago. The country then had already moved on from the previous century of...
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edgardavidboshart
Oct 12, 20183 min read
Bight of Kennebunk: Travel Destination
“The swallow has set her six young on the rail, and looks seaward.” James Lee’s Wife (1864, pt 3 st.1), Robert Browning Before Autumn...
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edgardavidboshart
Aug 31, 20181 min read
Off to Southeast Asia (Again)
Tomorrow I leave for another visit to Vietnam and Cambodia for a couple of weeks. It has been 10 years since I was in these two...
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edgardavidboshart
Jul 11, 201820 min read
The Cuba Connection: A complete travel summary
Cuba Connection — 2018 (*Photos have been selected at random) A Metaphor Walking the streets of Havana in March 2018, I spied a man in a...
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edgardavidboshart
Jun 1, 20186 min read
Columbus Sailed the Ocean Blue and Discovered Cuba Too (but not North America)
Cristobal Colon (Christopher Columbus) never set foot or planted the flag for the Crown of Castille on North America. However, he found...
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edgardavidboshart
May 18, 20184 min read
Cuba 2018, Still Embargoed
A Metaphor Walking the streets of Havana in March 2018, I spied a man in a white T-shirt watching a spontaneous soccer match below his...
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edgardavidboshart
May 18, 20181 min read
Cuba: Cars Imprisoned; Car Finds Jesus
Even before touring the city of Havana proper, I am enthralled by the alternating flow of shiny and rumpled, rusting metal objects on the...
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edgardavidboshart
Mar 19, 20184 min read
Iran: 21rst Century Perspective
Before leaving Iran, it is only fitting in a way that I/we step away from the beauty and progressive qualities on display in the country...
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edgardavidboshart
Mar 16, 20183 min read
Palaces of Isfahan
On the western side of Isfahan’s grand square looms the Ali Qapu, a towering pavilion topped by pillars, under reconstruction, and behind...
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edgardavidboshart
Mar 9, 20184 min read
Between Earth and the Universe: Isfahan's Royal Mosque
It's early morning, late September. I stride across Meidan-e Shah Square (the massive Royal Square) in old town Esfahan (or Isfahan),...
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edgardavidboshart
Mar 2, 20183 min read
Half of the World: Isfahan
In the wilderness about 200 miles south of Tehran is a place called “Half of the World.” Ishfahan, twice the capital of Persia, was the...
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