Vietnam: First Impressions
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Some funny video from Bob and Claire Rogers’ first week in Vietnam on their tandem bicycle. They are touring Asia from Tibet to Bangkok. Read the rest of this article…
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Vietnam: First Impressions
New Adventure Plans
Claire has been getting bored with same old same old exotic Laos, so now we’re headed off on a backroads, dirt roads, “shortcut” to the Vietnam border. It follows a branch of the old Ho Che Min Trail. That was just the thing to get her excited. It has something to do with her being born in Vietnam, and going back. We’ll be in Laos stll, but will be asking directions (sound familiar) and using the compass to make decisions. It could be easy. We’ll see.
Zippy Draws A Crowd
Chinese do not like to be photographed as a part of a crowd, and yet they always like to be a part of a crowd. I wonder if it has to do with how much they are under surveillance, or think they are? Read the rest of this article…
Shangri-la Backroads 2
Bill Weir and Alice and Andoni, cyclists we’d met way back in Almaty in 2005, suggested we take a back road to Tiger Leaping Gorge. Read the rest of this article…
Shangri-la; Journey into Myth, search for Reality
The British author James Hilton published a small novel in 1933 and set it in a Utopian kingdom in China. He was no doubt shocked at the widespread repute the location of his fictional sacred Utopian kingdom would achieve, and the misuse that would subsequently be heaped upon it. Read the rest of this article…
Bob and Claire Rogers, The New Bohemians
We chose the New Bohemians moniker as descriptive of our unique lifestyle: adventure travel, creativity, self-reliance and frugality. For twenty years, we have lived life as if our time here is limited, has an end unknown to us. Many give the idea fleeting thought, but fear the idea and push it aside. We embrace it.
We are not the anti-social hedonists many associate with the name Bohemians. Anyone who has followed our adventures knows we don’t avoid challenge or discomfort. We get our high by pushing our bodies and minds in pursuit of creative living, travel, and intimate connection with the World and it’s peoples. That is the New in New Bohemians. Many people searching for our site found instead a folk rock band, Edie Brickell and The New Bohemians, since they had the .com long before we conceived of a web presence. They’re a laid back group with a great sound and meaningful lyrics you can actually understand. Read the rest of this article…