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Pandemic travel memories:
1/ Jharkhand, Ranchi, India. One of the best chicken soups / shorbas I've ever had. A must-visit whenever I am back there!
1/ Jharkhand, Ranchi, India. One of the best chicken soups / shorbas I've ever had. A must-visit whenever I am back there!
2/ Jharkhand, Ranchi, India. My friend @kp1200 usually takes me to places with strange signs. Like this one.
3/ Indonesia, somewhere, probably. Trying to fit in as an amoi
4/ Story of my life a few years ago. Singapore, in a van, dropping Cookie off at 5am with my parents or some other babysitter.
5/ Banani, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Amar shonar bangla. I miss it.
Amar shonar bangla. I miss it.
6/ Between 2013 and 2018, I had a somewhat blessed life. I hopped around: Bandung, Jakarta, Dhaka, Yangon, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, with some frequency. Here was a macet / traffic jam when the local Bandung soccer team won something.
7/ Wherever I went, I harassed cats. This was... Delhi? Bombay? Who knows anymore
8/ For a few fun years, I lived in the Bendungan Hilir, a notoriously flood-prone part of Jakarta. It was also: very downtown!
I frequently went to the Mie Aceh restaurant to feel at home. My Indonesian, apparently, was more Malay than Indonesian, so Acehnese welcomed it.
I frequently went to the Mie Aceh restaurant to feel at home. My Indonesian, apparently, was more Malay than Indonesian, so Acehnese welcomed it.
9/ It was @drewrants I think, who made this collage?? Dog vs food and human vs food
10/ It has been a joy, in the last 7 years to be able to feed 80 children outside Ranchi, Jharkhand, whenever I go back there to see them. It still blows my mind that the cost to feed 80 kids a day is like, $30 or something ridiculous. I will continue to feed them all the time
11/ I enjoy spending time alone. Sometimes, I need to go somewhere alone to recharge, for a few days. When I lived in Indonesia, I had my pick of amazing places to do just that. Here, I did bus, van, motorbike, to lie down on the grass and sleep in a tent, alone. Glorious.
13/ I've gone to Jharkhand a few times a year for the last 7 years, except for this one. It's been amazing to see the kids I saw as 5 year olds become confident teens.
14/ Dhaka! Again.
15/ An assortment of Indonesia photos
16/ would i like to spend the remainder of the money I have got, on sleazy strip-teasy videos? I am not sure.
17/ Every week with @drewrants: he's grumpy, because he got to the airport at 5.30am. And I got there at 7am and got to sit next to him anyway
18/ I complain about Caltrain, but I have absolutely no problems wearing a poncho and riding on a motorbike for 3h in the rain. The rain.
19/ I have yet to find a claypot scene that I love as much. Lian He Ben Ji claypot rice, Chinatown Complex. Wash it down with a craft beer at Smith Street Taps
20/ Yogyakarta. Home to mie godhog and buntu
21/ Various modes of transportation
22/ Jalan Prawirotaman
23/ Lighting a fire, somewhere cold in Indonesia
24/ Burmese nights and days.
25/ Life itself
26/ Various mornings in Jakarta
27/ Surabaya cooling water photo
28/ Playground, rickshaw, bike and train.
29/ I have had back pains for a while. In Jakarta, I used to go to Haji Naim, Betawi pijat masters extraordinaire. It was glorious.
30/ Most confusing signs in Jogja
31/ Happy days in Koh Chang. 2005. One day, I swear, I'll be back @iamKohChang
32/ Bangkok always, always makes me happy.
33/ Chiang Dao, northern Thailand. A little piece of heaven. It still blows my mind that I could go to places like this when I was in college for... $30??
34/ Entalau, Malaysian Borneo. I lived for a week with this guy and his family. It was Hari Gawai, and I got way too much tuak into my system.
