travel – Gecko's Bark

A Month In a Bucolic Paradise (9/11/2016)
Arriving in Nong Khai, Thailand (9/5/2016)
Of Politics, Facebook and Nong Khai, Thailand (9/3/2016)
A Belated So Long and Farewell, Isara Foundation (8/20/2016)
Pseudo Soi Dog (7/9/2013)
Photo a Day: Fallen Idol? (7/8/2013)
Picking Up the Slack: Slight Return … (7/7/2013)
The Slack Has Been Picked Up (7/6/2013)
Photo a Day: More Portrait Professional (6/30/2013)
Soi Dogs? What About Cafe Cats? (6/28/2013)
Photo a Day: Pigeon of Doom (6/27/2013)
Photo a Day: Babe in Arms (6/26/2013)
Time Lapse Photos and Video in Photoshop CS6 (6/25/2013)
An (Old) Boy and His Dog (6/24/2013)
Sala Keoku: Sewer Bass Feeding Frenzy (6/22/2013)
Sala Keoku: the Need for a Polarizing Filter (6/21/2013)
Sala Keoku: an Asura (6/20/2013)
Down and Out with a Head Cold (6/19/2013)
We Interrupt Sala Keoku for Soi Chaiyapoon (6/16/2013)
You Just Can’t Have Enough Giant Snakes (6/15/2013)
If a Tree Growing Out of a Buddha’s Head Falls … (6/14/2013)
Sala Keoku: Seven Heads Better than One (6/13/2013)
And Yet Still More Sala Keoku (6/12/2013)
An Indiana Jones Set Piece: Sala Keoku (6/11/2013)
Photo a Day: Thai Gargoyle? (6/10/2013)
It’s Not the Size of the Immigration Building … (6/9/2013)
Photo a Day: Um, What? Giant Skeleton? (6/8/2013)
Photo a Day x 3: Big Ass Bonus (6/7/2013)
Rank Hath Its Privileges (6/4/2013)
Photo a Day: Head on a Stick Edition (6/3/2013)
More from Sala Keoku (6/1/2013)
Potted Plants as Sculpture (5/30/2013)
Soi Dogs? What of Soi Cats (5/29/2013)
Photo a Day: Hella Rad Graffiti (5/28/2013)
‘Til Death Do Us Part (5/27/2013)
Photo A Day: Tree Altar (5/26/2013)
Once Again, Ladies and Gentleman, Kiyomizu-dera (5/24/2013)
Photo a Day: Escargot On My Stoop (5/22/2013)
Highways Are Like Airports (5/21/2013)
Fountain and Reindeer Head in HDR (5/20/2013)
Photo a Day: Under the Boardwalk (5/19/2013)
From the Archives: Kiyomizu-dera, Kyoto, Japan (5/18/2013)
Down on Da Shore, Yo! (5/17/2013)
Siam Paragon Gravity Well (5/16/2013)
Soi Dogs: 7-11 Edition (5/15/2013)
Day of the Dildo Triffids (5/14/2013)
Photo a Day: Another Soi Dog (5/13/2013)
Photo a Day: Keep Truckin’ On (Your Towel) (5/11/2013)
Photo a Day: 2 for 1 Sunset (5/9/2013)
Stinky Photo a Day: Durian Edition (5/8/2013)
I’m No. 1. It Says So Right There (5/7/2013)
Ever Vigilant: Photo a Day (5/6/2013)
Soi Dog at the Beach (5/4/2013)
Photo a Day with Est: Phoning it In (5/3/2013)
Bangkok ‘Hood in HDR (5/2/2013)
Documenting a Drinking Problem (5/1/2013)
Photo a Day: Soi Dog No. 1 (4/30/2013)
Photo a Day: Wood Sprites (4/29/2013)
Weather’s Here, Wish You Were Nice (4/28/2013)
Submitted, Without Comment: Photo a Day (4/26/2013)
Suset Photo of a Day (4/25/2013)
Photo a Day: Rainy Day at the Beach (4/24/2013)
Photo a Day: Back to Thai School Edition (4/23/2013)
Photo a Day, Bangkok ‘Hood Edition (4/21/2013)
Coconuts in the Sun: a Photo a Day (4/20/2013)
Inaugural Photo A Day Entry (4/19/2013)
Saint Patrick’s Day Parade a la Pattaya (3/19/2013)
On This, An Anniversary of a Mother’s Death (1/22/2013)
And Yet I Cannot Forget, Dad (12/21/2012)
No, Really: I’m Still Here, Still Teaching (9/14/2012)
In Which the Gecko Barks About Books (4/19/2012)
ESL: Teenage Boys & Freudian Obsesesions (3/28/2012)
Karma Chameleon, Karma Quadriceps (3/27/2012)
Damn My Quadriceps, I’m Walking (Sort Of) Home. Through the Park, Even (2/24/2012)
It Sucks! It Sucks! It Sucks! (2/16/2012)
(What’s So Funny About) Nick Lowe, Elvis Costello and ESL Anyway? (2/14/2012)
Enduring the Mood Swings of a Quadriceps Tendon Tear Recovery (2/7/2012)
Wallowing in Despair: Did I Tear My Quadriceps Tendon or My Mind? (1/28/2012)
Getting Bent: It’s A Quadriceps Tendon Tear Milestone (1/15/2012)
Wah My Leg Hurts. Wah Life Sucks. (1/9/2012)
My Quadriceps Tendon Torn Asunder (12/25/2011)
Looking Back on a Father’s Death (12/16/2011)
Back in ‘Nam … and the Classroom (11/29/2011)
Living Abroad: It Ain’t Vacation (6/1/2011)
Yearning to Travel Abroad (Again) (5/31/2011)
Entropy and Douchebaggery (5/17/2011)
Teaching Barefoot: Shoes are Bunkum (4/19/2011)
Pizza, Burritos and Guinness, Oh My! (4/14/2011)
In Which I Screw Up Bad (2/17/2011)
Oh Noes! The Foreigner! Dun Dun Duh! (1/31/2011)
Puzzlement Abroad: the Mysteries of Expat Life, Like Garbage and Monkeys (1/6/2011)
Expat Life Passes One Year Mark (1/1/2011)
Depression, Banking, Cycling: A Day in the Expat Life (12/10/2010)
Back to Being a Freelance Writer (Slacker). It’s Deja-Vu All Over Again … in Viet Nam (11/23/2010)
Saying Goodbye to an Old Friend (11/8/2010)
Saddle Up, Effendi. We Ride! (11/3/2010)
Mene, Mene, Tekel u-Pharsin. Or, Dammit, Jim, I’m a Teacher, Not a Clown! (10/25/2010)
The Tokay Crooned at Midnight (10/8/2010)
Essence of Chicken: Thais are Fatist (10/7/2010)
Bat-Shit Insanity: Initial Thoughts Upon Leaving Thailand (8/26/2010)
Sabai Dee Phi Mai Krab! (4/13/2010)
May You Live in Interesting Times (in Thailand) (3/18/2010)
Tête-à-Tet, And Various Other Miscellanea (2/22/2010)
DWA: The Boy Who Lived (1/12/2010)
She Was Looking Out For My Dong (1/10/2010)
If Only Graham Greene Were Here With Me … (1/5/2010)
You’re Gonna Move Where to Do What? (10/26/2009)
And Then the World Changed (10/21/2009)
On the Road at 3 a.m. with Bobby and Beth (8/12/2009)
Spooky Cookie (7/24/2009)
Is Someone Trying to Tell Me Something? (4/14/2009)
“Travel is the enemy of bigotry.” (11/19/2008)
It’s the end of the world as we know it … (9/15/2008)
Quoth the raven: hypocrisy kills kittens and makes baby Jeebus cry (5/31/2008)
You know you’re in SoCal when … (4/10/2008)
“It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.” (1/10/2008)
Addressing GRE-phobia (12/8/2007)
Carrying (Historically Accurate) Pictures of Chairman Mao (3/29/2007)
Disembarking from the Love Boat (12/4/2006)
Carnival Glory Cruise: Set a Course for Adventure (11/27/2006)