Category Archives: philosophical

Southeast Asia Travels – A Fractal Moment In Time

Posted on February 28, 2010 by Michael McGuerty

“We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.” T.S. Eliot The Little Gidding As I was cycling within the mystical … Continue reading →

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Postcards From Cambodia

Posted on October 1, 2009 by Michael McGuerty

(Writings from my recent Southeast Asia Travels, sometime in mid-March) Remember, when exploring Angkor Wat, it’s best to arrive at the crack of dawn. That’s the bewitching hour when the Khmer ancestral faces embedded in the temple rocks come alive! … Continue reading →

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Travel Postcards – Camp Columbia

Posted on September 8, 2009 by Michael McGuerty

(Writing excerpt from my South America travels) What I did on my summer vacation…. Completing my sixth week exploring Camp Ecuador, I decided with one week left before returning back to the States to venture north to Columbia….Camp Columbia. An … Continue reading →

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Postcards From Vietnam – Part II

Posted on July 22, 2009 by Michael McGuerty

( Writings from my recent Southeast Asia travels ) HIHO, HIHO, it’s down the Ho Chi Minh Trail I go! The journey south began on an overnight sleeper bus. Picture a train sleeper car, equipped with bunk beds, only inside … Continue reading →

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Postcards From Vietnam

Posted on July 22, 2009 by Michael McGuerty

(Writings from my recent Southeast Asia travels) Cliche or no cliche, after such a wonderful day I had yesterday cycling through the countryside waving to hundreds of Vietnamese saying “HELLO!” I’m unabashedly ready to proclaim, nay, open the bedroom window … Continue reading →

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TRAVEL – THE PAUSE THAT REFRESHES

Posted on February 22, 2009 by Michael McGuerty

…Thank you for stopping by. The Pecoskid is currently out of his cyber office. He has gone traveling. This time of year, in New Mexico, it is cold while in Southeast Asia, it is not. Need I say more. The … Continue reading →

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Peru – South America- A Traveler’s Journey

Posted on December 8, 2008 by Michael McGuerty

The following travel essay is an excerpt from my travel book South America – Pictures, Prose, and Poetry. I had a good conversation with a Peruvian gentleman on the bus to Puno, Peru. Sharing a common birthday we naturally struck … Continue reading →

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The Evolution Will Not Be Televised – Part II (The Revolution, However, May Be Videotaped)

Posted on November 7, 2008 by Michael McGuerty

“It’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.” Song verse by the band REM A few days ago, during an idyllic Indian summer afternoon, I was relaxing in my backyard, playing my guitar, soaking … Continue reading →

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Tahiti – French Polynesia – Paradise Lost, Found, and Reclaimed

Posted on September 4, 2008 by Michael McGuerty

The following travel writing essay is an excerpt from my travel book Tahiti –Pictures, Prose and Poetry I find traveling the greatest form of education an individual can obtain of the world we live in, and have a wonderful time … Continue reading →

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Epilogue To China

Posted on August 1, 2008 by Michael McGuerty

(This is an epilogue to my recent travels in China. For a review of the China travel journal I kept while on the road, please click my travel journal link located in the blogroll section: www.travelpod.com/members/pecoskid located on right side.) … Continue reading →

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