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My dear readers,<br /><br />It has become more and more difficult for me to adjust to settled life after the nomadic life of a traveler. Travel is addictive! I survive only with help of my non-prescription medicine, which I take on a daily basis: seventeen table spoons, at bed time with food. What medicine, you may ask? Here is the chemical formula of it: 40% solution of C2H5-OH in H2O.

SE Asia 2004 (part I)

Alex Mumzhiu
2006-03-22 19:06:55

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Yesterday a courier company called me and offered a last minute special courier trip to Bangkok for FREE. It will be month long trip. I do not plan to spend much time in Bangkok. I will go to Indonesia and will try to reach Indonesian province Jrian Jaya, on eastern part of New Guinea Island, next to Papua, New Guinea. The cannibals who live there, wear simple two pieces suits, consisting from tie and gourd, see attachment. I would love to send you my picture in such suit on bicycle.

I will fly at noon from JFK

Alex Mumzhiu
New York
7 am Nov 24 2004

Hello everybody,

According to your responses some of my readers still do not understand seriousness of decease called travel addiction. If you are one of them please take a look at interview with the best traveler of the year Hiromaca Ando. This Japanese man traveled across entire Russia on bike in winter: http://www.utro.ru/articles/2004/02/13/278672.shtml

CURRIER BUSINESS

The courier business is a funny business. They give you directions on how to navigate through the airport, where to meet their representative and what to do next. It is similar to the popular TV game "Amazing Race."

To make this game more interesting they put in their instruction some necessary and also some unnecessary steps and provide erroneous maps and incorrect sketches. It is always in rush, because their reps are always late. In Narita airport I was supposed to meet the courier rep. Map, they provided was wrong. My plane from NY to Narita was late. So after I gave the rep baggage invoices, I had to rush to the plane to Bangkok. Instruction manual told me to obtain Value Added Tax certificate. I do not think I need it, but instruction put it in BOLD. Eventually I found proper place in Japanese language only Narita airport and they told me that I do not need this certificate. I rushed through immigration and customs and jumped in my plane in the last minute, ...