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I'll be landing in Johannesberg on the 16th and am seeking any and all recommendations of budget food or accomodation or simply tips on living in Botswana without the bankroll of a fat safari-queen. Help urgently requested!
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19 January :: Johannesberg :: Fear of Fabio edition |
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19 January 2003
Travelogue :: Johannesberg :: Fear of Fabio edition
Touchdown, southern Africa. The flight began inauspiciously, with everyone within 3 rows around cringing and pretending to be invisible as a South African consular official berated, lectured and threatened the two Thai women seated directly behind me. She was obviously |
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23 January :: Gaborone :: The 6-months-in awards edition |
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23 January 2003
Travelogue :: Gaborone :: The 6-months-in awards edition
My occasional forays into going online these days inform me that it is awards season in the land of columnists, as a lot of my email seems to be dominated by forwarded best & worst lists for 2002’s books, movies, live televised |
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01 February :: Gaborone :: Post-theft update |
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1 February 2003
Travelogue :: Gaborone :: The theft edition
http://www.trekshare.com/members/apousson/
I was going to write a funny, possibly even heartwarming, update about my new living circumstances, the fantastically friendly denizens of the University of Botswana, and other day-to-day miscellany. It might have even verged into the territory of self-congratulation, as I was |
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15 February :: Gaborone :: Relevance of Feminism to AIDS edition |
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15 February 2003
Travelogue :: Gaborone :: Relevance of Feminism edition
A few words on why feminism is hardly ?irrelevant?
Today, someone sent me a link to Salon?s letter from 20-somethings, or whatever they called the piece. And it depressed me, of course, with how self-obsessed and awful the average writer-in-to-Salon seems to |
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17 February :: Gaborone :: Bad Line edition |
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17 February 2003
Travelogue :: Gaborone :: The bad line edition
How much do your principles sell for? A dollar? Ten? A hundred? It appears that mine go for about 50 Pula, or at least some part of them does. Don?t worry, I?ll explain.
I?ve always been the kind |
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01 March :: Gaborone :: Biltong & Chocolate Bar Edition |
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01 March 2003
Travelogue :: Gaborone :: The biltong and chocolate bar edition
It’s been pointed out that I’ve fallen down on my job of helping y’all vicariously eat your way through 4 continents, as I apparently promised to do sometime around Rio. And I admit it. In Thailand I was |
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