During our travels, we’ve witnessed a number of upsetting scenes featuring cruelty towards animals (skip the rest of this paragraph, if you’re sensitive to animal cruelty). We’ve seen Couscous, our favorite Laotian dog, beaten until he whimpered for chewing at his casted, broken leg. We saw a monkey indefinitely tied to a tree in aContinue reading “Animal Cruelty: Seen and Unseen”
Category Archives: Musings
Morals and Culture
Anna and others want me to contribute to this blog, but writing about travel is hard when you rarely even trek down to the real world. As such, I invite you to come get tangled in the neurons of Aaron’s Brain, Chiang Mai, Thailand, Earth. Disclaimer for family, this post contains very personal and possiblyContinue reading “Morals and Culture”
On the Unexpected
I knew it would happen eventually. No big trip could happen without (at least) one. It’s basically a law of nature: the unavoidable logistical nightmare. Sometimes it’s lost luggage, or a stolen bag with your passport in it. Sometimes you’re too sick to make your flight, or the hotel lost your reservation and is bookedContinue reading “On the Unexpected”
On Journeys
Joseph Campbell thought that every great story was, at its essence, a story of the Hero’s Journey. A protagonist receives a call to leave his ordinary world for a journey into a scary and wondrous land, his subconscious manifest. He finds friends and foes, tempers his character in the fires of inevitable tribulation, achieves hisContinue reading “On Journeys”
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