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Gora in Lahore-a Day 21: Practicalities
Posted on January 16, 2012 by Gary BUTTERWORTH
LAHORE, PAKISTAN Lahore is a modern city in every sense of the word. In fact, “modern” in the developing world sense might be even more modern than in the western sense. Lahore has a little bit of everything and is probably about as representative of Pakistan as a city like Washington, DC, is of the [...]
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Gora in Lahore-a Day 19: Safety and bragging rights
Posted on January 14, 2012 by Gary BUTTERWORTH
LAHORE, PAKISTAN With Colombian and now Pakistani entry stamps in my passport, I feel like I’ve finally earned some serious travel cred. The thing is, Lahore really doesn’t feel edgy enough to warrant bragging rights. Yes, this is the post where I’ll talk about safety, and the short version is that I feel very safe [...]
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Gora in Lahore-a Day 5 (pm)–The Traffic
Posted on December 31, 2011 by Gary BUTTERWORTH
LAHORE, PAKISTAN Ya Allah the traffic! You have this mental image of developing world traffic, particularly in Asia. But friends and coworkers have told me time and time again over the years that that’s not Pakistan. Egypt, India…sure. But not Pakistan. I took their word for it. Now that I’m here, people are still telling [...]
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Gora in Lahore-a: Day 5 (am)–The Small World Cliché
Posted on December 31, 2011 by Gary BUTTERWORTH
LAHORE, PAKISTAN Aside from pilots, does anyone really like to fly? I read an article a few weeks ago that suggested that going for walks has psychological benefits. The gist was that since the human mind evolved with walking as its only means of transportation, the brain essentially works at a walking pace. By going [...]
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Chicago and Milwaukee Trip Recap in Pictures
Posted on September 7, 2008 by Gary BUTTERWORTH
Stratford, NJ, USA Better late than never? Before I head off on my next trip, I thought I should finally find time to post the pictures from my last trip. From July 27-30, I was in Chicago. I mainly went to see a baseball game. But it was my first time in the Windy City, [...]
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Nana: 20 monthiversary–Random Pictures Edition (Wedding and birds)
Posted on July 20, 2008 by Gary BUTTERWORTH
STRATFORD, NJ, USA I haven’t posted much recently, mostly because I haven’t had much to talk about. But today marks 20 months since I moved in with my grandmom, so I’ll do my usual little monthly update about her life and mine. Nana My grandmom, quite frankly, is not doing very well. Although the back [...]
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Soccer: USA-Argentina international friendly at Giants Stadium
Posted on June 14, 2008 by Gary BUTTERWORTH
STRATFORD, NJ, USA I’m a little late in writing about this, but last Sunday my mom watched my grandmom while I went up to North Jersey to watch the international friendly between the national soccer teams of the USA and Argentina. It was the second part of my weekend of sports day trips, and I [...]
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Priceline for DC hotels
Posted on June 7, 2008 by Gary BUTTERWORTH
STRATFORD, NJ, USA In addition to last week being my grandmom’s 90th birthday, it also marked six months since I returned to the (part-time) workforce. You probably know by now that I spend every Wednesday night in DC, while we pay a woman to take care of my grandmother in NJ. As I’ve said a [...]
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