I WOKE WITH STOMACH PAINS and wondered if this was going to be a bad day for a bus trip. My girlfriend and I were headed for the Belizean town of San Ignacio, near the border with Guatemala. A five-hour ride. Fortunately the cramps eased as we drove inland past the Maya Mountains which rose…
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La Ruta Maya – Lamanai
PRIOR TO LEAVING FOR MEXICO I was constantly importuned by friends and family to be on my guard, to take extra precautions, to avoid standing out as a foreigner. These concerns had been stirred up by the media in the United States due to a spike in drug-related violence along the borders of the two countries. …
One Flew East…
THERE ARE TWO KINDS OF PEOPLE in the world; me, and all the lunatics. At least it can seem that way after a few months in Bangkok. Just the other day I was walking through the hotel lobby when my friend Jake called me over to introduce a fellow American he’d just met in the…
Malaise
WHEN I RETURNED to Bangkok from a dull weekend in Phetchaburi and realized that I had nothing to write about, I booked a train to Malaysia in a panic. With my girlfriend occupied at school and my friend laid up for a few days at the hotel from another night of excess there was nothing to keep…
The Food Critic
WHILE IN BANGKOK I was offered a job writing for an online “lifestyle magazine” based in Paris. I’d applied for the position even though their ad was short on details. It simply said, “Writers Needed”. In their contact e-mail they asked for a sample article of around 300 words. The problem was that they wanted me…
James Perry 