Here & There...
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Our Humble Cottage on Boracay, after the Typhoon
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Top of Shwedagon Pagoda, Burma - Women are too impure to be allowed up. I don't make the rules.
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Looking out my back door, Boracay
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Well, You know where...
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Oldest Islamic Necropolis in Pakistan
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Typical Friendly Faces in Hyderabad, Pakistan
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Hitching from Darwin to Brisbane on a Road Train
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A Tree Grows in Africa
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Another former Indian village shop
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On the Road to Blantyre, Malawi
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Still the local social hub
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Typical Malawian Village Shop, after the Indian Shopowners were ethnically cleansed
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MDP Party Rally in Malawi, when Democracy was still banned
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A Dangerous Pro-Democracy Rally - Still Banned
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Carrying Fruit to Market, Salima, Lake Malawi
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The Malawian Dictator's Palace after his overhtrow, holding a gavel engraved "From His Royal Highness Emporer Haile Selassie to His Excellency The Life President of Malawi, H.E. Kamuzu Banda". Sometimes wish I kept it....
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Typical Aid Project Status
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Boracay - the island paridise you dream about
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Lucky the regional tractor was making it's monthly visit
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Broke down in Baluchistan, but made some new friends
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Another ancient, abandondend temple in Pagan, Burma
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On Holiday in Cambodia, The Killing Fields
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Boracay 15 minutes to walk the width, an hour to walk the length, no phones, no lights, no motor cars...
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Burmese Holy Man
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Three Princesses
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One thing you got to say for Mao - he ended Foot Binding. Still a lot of survivors then.
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Celebrating 30 like a Rock Star
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On the Banks of the Irrawaddy - the abandonded city of temples, Pagan, Burma
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Hardworking Party Member, when China was still the communist workers Paridise
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A Danish Fishing Village is not the worst place for kids to be kids
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I want to thank all the little people who made this possible...
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Queen Margrethe of Denmark. Didn't find that out until after our casual chat. They are quite informal over there.
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Inside Schwedegon
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Didn't catch much, but still seems idylic
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The end of a busy day
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Me & my buddies, Soviet Economic Advisers to Vietnam, the month before the Soviet Union collapsed. Who knew?
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Tevye, in the Lilongwe Drama Society's internationally acclaimed production of "Fiddler on the Roof". I was nervous the next day when I ran into the intimidating Head of Security for the Israeli Embassy, but she reassured me: "You make a very good Jew"
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Dringing Cobra Whiskey when Saigon was still dangerous
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Still Idealistic and about to end Poverty in Africa
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My Grandfather in the Cavalry in Texas, before heading down to Mexico in pursuit of Pancho Villa
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A Gangster & his Moll?
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Schwedegon Exterior - Pure Plated Gold
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Moon Mountain, Yangshuo District, China
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On the road to Mandalay, Burma
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Schwedegon Pagoda - still topped by the largest Ruby in the world. Even the British didn't have the nerve to steal it.
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Shaolin Monk - I wonder if he really is a Kung Fu Master?
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Disguised as Pakistani to sneak through the Khyber Pass
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Me & my adopted family from one of the Northern Thai Hill Tribes