Compassion for a being whose servitude I depend on is fruitless.
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The Best Day—and Weekend—Trips from Tokyo
Whether you enjoy views of Mt. Fuji in Yamanashi, bask in the warm sea breezes in Shizuoka or the straddle the boundary between past and future in Kanagawa, these excursions from Tokyo are trips through time, space and the very bounds of reality.
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Carp and Dragon in the Viper Forest
Travel always seems to lock stretches of my life in parentheses, but I’m never sure whether I’m inside or outside them.
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Phuket Is More Than Just a Beautiful Beach
Phuket boasts more than a hundred kilometers of coastline, but is much more than just a beautiful beach destination.
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Ghosts and Referenda
Yes: I shaved 13 days off a two-week trip, and flew halfway around the world (and back!) in two days so that I could make things right—and garden, bake brownies and watch the season finale of Veep—with the love of my life.
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Three Days in Hong Kong
Planning a trip to Hong Kong? Here are my suggestions on how to spend three days in Hong Kong, whether it’s your first trip here or your fiftieth.
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Hong Kong Comeuppance
Butterflies cannot allow themselves to be weighed down by memories of life inside the chrysalis.
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A Big Bangkok Surprise
I’ve been to Bangkok 14 times and stayed at dozens of hotels during those trips. So how is it that one of the city’s finest eluded me until now?
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Don’t Ride a Horse Into the Crater of Mount Bromo
Leave Your Daily Hell guest blogger Claudia explains why you should think twice before riding a horse into the crater of Indonesia’s Mount Bromo.
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Myanmar, I Hardly Knew Ye
I expected my driver to be shocked and amazed when I told him I’d visited his country more than five years prior, but all he seemed to care about was my nationality.
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