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Posts Tagged ‘Travel’

Update: Where in the World is “miandering”?

Friday, June 12th, 2009

SMITH community member miandering continues her global trek, detailing her path (”Senmonorom. Sanctuary for elephants. And me”), impressions (”Phnom Penh. Caution: No traffic laws”), experiences (”Teaching teenage girls challenging, exhausting, rewarding”), and travails (”Visa expired again. Another Vietnam border-run”), in a series of six-word memoirs, many with accompanying images. Then there’s my personal favorite: “No [...]

A Travel Diary, Six Words at a Time

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

SMITH community member who goes by the name Miandering is taking six-word memoirs across the world, writing a new one with every country she visits—greeting the likes of Thailand with these six words: “Sticky rice at every meal. Yum.”
Like so many of the six-word memoirs, her bite-sized dispatches reflect a rollercoaster ride of emotions [...]