Trip Around the World #3, December 2002
Purple sky
in Ghana
With Gloria
at pool party #1
With Gloria
at pool party #2
Bangkok
skyline
View of
Bangkok Grand Palace #1
View of
Bangkok Grand Palace #2
View of
Bangkok Grand Palace #3
View of
Bangkok Grand Palace #4
Posing with
one of the guards at the Grand Palace (They made me wear hospital pants over my
shorts to show respect to Thai royal family)
View of
Bangkok Grand Palace #5
Typical gold
statue inside Grand Palace
Posing in
front of a door at the Grand Palace
Cat takes a
nap inside his dragon cousin at Grand Palace
View of
Bangkok Grand Palace #6
Favorite photo of all---Statue in courtyard of Bangkok's Wat Po
Jolly
Buddha at Wat Po
King Cobra
let loose
Sunset in
Bangkok
Thai
Backstreet Boys perform
Thai Boxing
#1
Thai Boxing
#2
Thai Boxing
#3
Sitting
on the back of a Motorcycle in Bangkok
My Thai
friend June also poses on the motorcycle
June
visits my hotel room
June and I
go out on the town
June
and I shop at Tokyu department store #1
June
and I shop at Tokyu department store #2
June speeds away on the back on a motorcycle
From
the Bangkok Post...this is proof that women in Thailand tend to be quite
beautiful!
Ancient
Buddhist temple in Chiang Mai, Thailand
Jade Buddha in
Chiang Mai
Words of
Wisdom in Chiang Mai
A Buddhist monk
in Chiang Mai
Waterfalls
are everywhere around Chiang Mai
Beautiful northern Thai countryside
Tallest
mountains in Thailand are around Chiang Mai
Looking out
over the mountains
Buddhist
shrine on mountain
Flowers in
full bloom in December
My
encounter with an elephant
Another
elephant shows off
Elephants show their artistic side by painting
The result of the elephant's work
New
skyscraper goes up on Hong Kong Island
Standing by
the Peak Tram
Hong
Kong at night #1
Hong
Kong at night #2
Sunset over
southern Hong Kong island
Hong Kong
sunset and me
Guangzhou,
China, famous Five Goats statue
Pond in
Guangzhou
Chinese
people tend to be quite racist towards blacks--they think they still belong in
the minstrel show!
Trip Around the World #2, September 2002
Read my Journal Entry about my September visit to
Ghana
View of
Paris #1
View of
Paris #2
View of
Paris #3
View of
Paris #4
View of
Paris #5
Standing on top
of the Arc de Triomphe
View of
Accra, Ghana
Bill
Clinton in Accra!
Standing in
front of some fantasy coffins; a Ghana specialty!
The bad
roads of Ghana!
Our
fearless leader Hugh tries some local gin
After
Hugh survives his dose, I drink some gin
Boats in
eastern Ghana
Selling tomatoes along the highway in eastern Ghana
View of Cape
Coast, western Ghana #1
View of Cape
Coast, western Ghana #2
View of Cape
Coast, western Ghana #3
View of Cape
Coast, western Ghana #4
Cape
Coast Castle (former slave trading port)
With
Lucy #1
With
Lucy #2
View of
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
The
Petronas Twin Towers, the tallest skyscrapers in the world (for now)
Standing in the Menara (a giant TV tower) with the Petronas twin towers behind
me
Having
dinner with my guides in Kuala Lumpur, Alyssa and Zia
View of
Kuching, Malaysia #1
View of
Kuching, Malaysia #2
View of
Kuching, Malaysia #3
Despite
amazing economic growth, there still is absolute poverty in Malaysia!
Malaysian
sculpture (not a painting) #1
Malaysian
sculpture (not a painting) #2
Sunset on
the River Kuching
View
of the South China Sea
Dense
Rainforest Everywhere in Bako National Park, Island of Borneo (Malaysia)
Rare
Bearded Pig in Bako National Park, Island of Borneo (Malaysia)
Rare Probicis
Monkey #1 in Bako National Park, Island of Borneo (Malaysia)
Rare Probicis
Monkey #2 in Bako National Park, Island of Borneo (Malaysia)
View of
Singapore #1
View of
Singapore #2
Old palace
in Seoul, South Korea
Old pagoda in
Seoul, South Korea
With my
guide in Seoul--Jee-Hyun
Korean
national cemetary
Korean kids
line up
Autumn in
Bukhansan National Park, Seoul
Trip Around the World #1, June 2002
Sierra Leone Journal Entry #1
Sierra Leone Journal Entry #2
Group of
Amputees #1
Group of
Amputees #2
Mr. Jaloh, a
double amputee
John
Koroma, protocol officer at the Ministry of Finance and a great guy
Mohammed,
my friend from the beach
View of
Freetown city #1
View of
Freetown city #2
View of
Freetown city #3
View of
Sussex area #1
View of
Sussex area #2
View of
Sussex area #3
Sunset at
beach at Aberdeen
War damage
to the old Ministry of Finance building
Before
boarding helicopter to take us to the city
Read my journal entry about Ghana, China, and Japan
View of Amsterdam
#1
View of Amsterdam
#2
The Tropical
Sky of Ghana
My
Ghanaian friend Bridget Kotey #1
My
Ghanaian friend Bridget Kotey #2
My
Ghanaian friend Bridget Kotey #3
Beijing--inside the Forbidden City #1
Beijing--inside the Forbidden City #2
Beijing--inside the Forbidden City #3
Beijing--tree split at base within Forbidden City
Beijing--Inside the Great Hall of the People
Beijing--Walking through the Great Hall of the People you are required to put a
blue shampoo-cap type thing over your shoes
Beijing--traditional homes, called "hutongs"
Beijing--girls who met me on the street and took me to McDonalds
Beijing--modern building #1
Beijing--modern building #2
View of
Beijing #1
View of
Beijing #2
View of
Beijing #3
View of
Beijing #4
View of
Beijing #5
Standing
Tall in Tiananmen Square
Great Wall
of China #1
Great Wall
of China #2
Great Wall
of China #3
Great Wall
of China #4
Conquering
the Great Wall of China
Tokyo--Imperial City #1
Tokyo--Imperial City #2
Tokyo--part of skyline
Tokyo--a Shinto memorial
Tokyo--Tokyo
Tower
Tokyo--Ueno Park #1
Tokyo--Ueno Park #2
Tokyo--Sitting in Ueno Park
Tokyo--my Capsule Hotel
Tokyo--inside my Capsule (see what $37 gets you in downtown Tokyo, nothing
more than a 4'x4'x6' room!)
Around DC
Standing next to the
FDR figure
Near the flags of
the Washington Monument
College
buddy John visits DC #1
College
buddy John visits DC #2
College
buddy John visits DC #3
My office at the
IMF
A typical night
on the town for a young, virile guy like me
San Francisco, March 2002
Here's an
embarrassing moment--Haley in the shower!
But I'm not
the only one with something to hide--Josh started an intimate
relationship...with our rental car!
After
visiting a park used in the opening credits of Full House, Andrew
declares: "John Stamos was here!"
Josh on the
beach in Santa Barbara, CA
Picture me
Rollin'!
View of San
Francisco #1
View of San
Francisco #2
View of San
Francisco #3
View of San
Francisco #4
View of San
Francisco #5
View of San
Francisco #6
San Francisco sea
lions
The Gambia and Senegal, West Africa, February 2002
Read my news article about The Gambia
View of The
Gambia #1
View of The
Gambia #2
The election
was some time ago, yet the President left his signs standing
My
co-worker Rania and I pose under this unusual tree
At the
crocodile pool, we were warned what not to do
IMF
staff believe in taking risks, like touching this live croc!
Taking a
tour of a bean processing plant #1
Taking a
tour of a bean processing plant #2
On my way
to a baby-naming ceremony, sitting in a fast-moving Jeep
Holding
Karamo's baby #1
Holding
Karamo's baby #2
These
fruit-selling girls were outside our hotel every single day
View of
Senegal #1
View of
Senegal #2
View of
Senegal #3
My Senegalese
friend Adam
Another
Senegalese friend Therese, a.k.a. "The Senegalese Connection"
Close-up of
Therese
Atop an old
WWII gun turret
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