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MIA in Thailand

June 16, 2012 – 11:39 pm

Last week I purchased a ticket for a flight to Bangkok. Flights were ridiculously expensive, since the airlines fatten their profits on the summer traffic. My itinerary had two stops. Tokyo was two hours, but Delta had scheduled a fifteen hours lay-over at SFO. I was cool with that length of time. My cousin Ty […]

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Stranded

April 17, 2010 – 6:22 pm

My great-grand aunt Bert sailed around the world in the 19th Century on her father’s sailing vessel, trading with the Orient in such ports as Singapore, Hong Kong, and Bangkok. The trip took over a year. My Irish grandmother crossed the Atlantic as a child of 12. The six-day stormy voyage so terrified my Nana […]

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