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Karben4 Brewery in Madison Reviewed
Since coming back from Asia, Megan and I have been peppered with questions. One in particular has recurred quite frequently: “What did you miss the most while living abroad?” The right answer, of...
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A Good Durian Is Hard to Find
Durian is the Limburger cheese of fruits, the most divisive fruit on the planet, either the crème brûlée or the booger-flavored jelly bean in Jelly Belly’s Harry Potter series. Depending on whom you...
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Lopburi, Monkey Capital
Monkeys were everywhere in Lopburi. Lithe, hideous creatures, all tawny and conniving, were climbing the chain link fence early in the morning, right outside our bedroom on the third floor of the...
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Khao Sam Roi Yot: Peace Beneath the Mountains
I’d been doing a lot of work for a travel company, writing about restaurants, nightlife, and shopping, editing thousands of hotel descriptions, and adding travel tips for Southeast Asian destinations...
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A Saturday at the Dane County Farmers Market
There is a neat and trim list of recommended activities for travelers visiting central Wisconsin. The outdoorsy might enjoy a trip to Wisconsin Dells or Devil’s Lake State Park; the indoorsy might want...
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A Quick Update
Hey, you! Yes, you: How’s it going? I hope you’re well. We certainly are. Since we’ve been stateside, we’ve visited Wisconsin, Indiana, Florida, and, broadly, the states between Wisconsin and Montana,...
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Americana and Beer at Missoula’s Tamarack Brewing Company
Missoula has no shortage of breweries. There’s Big Sky at the vanguard of Missoulian craft beer. And there’s Kettle House, a rising role player whose occasional brilliance suggests future stardom, like...
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Seeing the Dentist in Thailand
Thailand: Fun Fun Dental! The chair tipped back slowly, as if slipping into quicksand. Fluorescent light shone in my eyes. My jaw was clenched tight, upper teeth gritting against the lower. I was...
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Paradise Lost on Koh Phi Phi
Charred twisted fibers filled the air with the stench of kerosene. At 4 am, when mosquitoes and house music woke me up and I went out to run along Ao Lo Dalam, on the northtern side of Koh Phi Phi,...
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Pai Land
What was there, what did we see in Pai? We saw everything. Pai had it all. There were India-green rice paddies, 100cc automatic motorbikes, hirsute legs, wild and natural armpits; there were 30-decibel...
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