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Posts from July 2006

The Trip Home

The Trip Home

By Charlie World travelers take note: Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in Taipei, Taiwan has free wireless internet. Or at least Terminal 2 has free wi-fi. Hookup to the SSID “HTY_FREE”. So here we are for the next three hours, waiting for the China Airlines plane that will finally take us to America, The Greatest Country […]

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Wrapped Up

by Rachel Well, we are done. We had our last official Luce dinner this evening, and everyone has started to scatter. Some folks are staying in Asia, some are traveling for a few months, and others are heading back to start school and jobs. We fly tomorrow from here to Taipei, Taiwan to San Francisco […]

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A Snow Leopard in Penang

A Snow Leopard in Penang

by Raduga Meow and hello. My name is Raduga and I am a snow leopard. My new owners, Charlie and Rachel, brought me here to Penang, Malaysia far from my native Mongolia. Even though the climate is very different, I see it as a learning opportunity. We are staying at a big resort hotel on […]

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The Epic, Mongol Style

The Epic, Mongol Style

By Charlie Well, it’s done. We left Mongolia about 36 hours ago. The Korean Air flight left on time, at 1:20 AM on Sunday, July 16. With the national Naadam Festival concluded, the flight was predictably packed with Koreans and other non-Mongolians fleeing the Land of Khan. I love to fly, even if I am […]

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