These refer to lists of entries explicitly observing one aspect or another of the countries I visited.

Australia

Canada

China

France

Japan

Malaysia

Thailand

United Kingdom

USA

Vietnam

Australia

The original itinerary specified, as specifically as my itineraries ever get--which is not very--spending three weeks in Australia, another couple or three weeks in New Zealand and then finish up with three months in SE Asia. Heck, the only reason I went there originally was to attend my sister's wedding. Instead, I extended my three-month Oz visa and spent the entire four months in Australia. I left then only because of a promise to officiate as Best Man at a friend's wedding back in Michigan. A couple of months after that saw me back Down Under for another two months.

And I never did make it to Tasmania, or the Kimberleys, or the Gulf of Carpentaria, or . . .

The lessons come early...

Feeling right at home...

No place like home, except New South Wales.

The Outback Looms

FW: Since when do dirt roads have toll boths?

Waltzing Matilda

Dead skunk in the middle-a-the road.

Engine failure on the InfoBahn

The Australian Media & Communications Scene

A day in Brisbane

Canaway Downs

An Australian Juggernaut at The Commonwealth Games (Part I)

On the road again. . .

Anaconda II (Part I)

Katrin & Stan.

Gone Bush

Engine failure on the Australia Bahn

Into the Top End

Kakadu I

THE OUTBACK EXPERIENCE

Dreamtime I

Coober Pedy's dry.

Dust in the Wind

Ants in yer . . .

The Kalkadoon and the Mitakoodi

We of the Never-Never

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Canada

I did spend some time at home, or just thinking about it. And even a little while cycling and driving and ferrying through it.

Mile Zero

Don't these things pull into 7-11s?

Back home

A place to hang my hat for a while

 

Hee Haw, Moose Jaw!

Vive la Quebec Libre!

Basking in Saint John

Escape from NJ - Part I

 

Haida Gwaii

Catchin' Up

On Being Supple

Queen of the North

Gwaii Hanaas

Ten Rules of the Canoe

Pretty Stone Beach

It Begins With the Art

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China

Six and a half months, six thousand kilometers on a bicycle. There's perhaps not a more intimate way to experience a country.

Following the Tao

Seeking Harmony in the Middle Kingdom

Harmony Found

Getting to Taian -- Part I

Flying in Formation

Wrath of the Gods

Jay

Shanghai'd in Shanghai

Arrival: Beijing.

Bicycle Country

Go fly a kite.

Back in the Saddle

Mother Nature, the flirt.

Pingyao

Hotel lobby encounters.

Black Mask Valley

The Wheat Was Ripe And It Was Sunday

Lost and Found

The English Teacher

The calm before

It's a fat red line on the map!

A rainy day in the life of small town China.

Abandond Ship!

Prayer Wheels

Getting to Linxia

We used to dream of living in a corridor!

R&R

Mogao Ku

Some things Tangy

Crossings -- Part I

Another one rides the bus. Part I

A little more Tang

KASHGAR!

Dirty Laundry

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France

Can anyone really say anything accurate about the French?

Vive la difference -- drivelathon part two

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Japan

Japan confounds all expectations, except for the expense of visiting it.

Turning Japanese, I really think so.

Sugar Queen

Ree - 'oh - can.

Meandering through Kyoto.

Kobe

Pika-don

A White Road

Nozomi Shinkansen

On a park bench beside the A-bomb Dome.

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Malaysia

Malaysia was my introduction to Eastern culture, philosophy and people. Other than visiting various Chinatowns throughout the Western world, I'd never experienced anything like I was about to discover here, Marco Polo's first stop in the East.

Scattered thoughts in scattered places.

Life just got a whole lot more interesting.

Beyond Here There Be Dragons

Coming up for air.

Insomnia is a writer's ally.

Cat City . . .and beyond

Visiting a longhouse in Borneo

Bat City . . .and beyond. (Part I)

Mount Kinabalu I

Other Malaysia sites on the Web.

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Thailand

 

The King and I.

Days of brine and Islands.

Film at Eleven

Wat's up, Doc?

There's no place like. . .

I wouldn't do that if I were you.

Vipassana Climber.

TAT seeks Internet porn clean-up

Tha Tien.

The Accidental Farang. (Part I of The Farang)

Farang Redemption. (Part II of The Farang)

The Alien Within.

Baseball, hot dogs, apple Pai and Suzuki. (Epilogue to The Farang)

WHOOPS!

Buddha PARTIES!!!!

On the River Kwai.

Risking Dukkha.

United Kingdom

I didn't get any tan while standing in the English rain; but then I'm not The Walrus either...

And the lesson today...

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Vietnam

Great place. Wonderful people.

The sun also rises

Hanoi Jane never stayed at The Hanoi Hilton

When the lights go on in the city.

Jane and Uncle Ho.