The Turk Who Loved Apples (45 page)

   
visiting Jean,
231

Patricia,
81–83

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

   
cafés, bars,
149
,
151

   
film festival,
144–145
,
229–230

   
lifestyle,
114–116

   
prostitutes,
137–138
,
145–147
,
149–153

   
searching for Lina,
153–157

Ph
,
41–43
,
56
,
70
,
230

Phuoc (Ms. Thanh's student),
27–28
,
70–71

Pine Ridge Indian Reservation,
240–243

Police encounters,
11
,
65–66
,
87
,
90
,
242–243

Portishead
Dummy
album,
68
,
73
,
75
,
76

Poverty

   
ethical dilemma of beggars, prostitutes, street kids,
138–142
,
148

   
of Third World,
7

Prostitutes and prostitution in Southeast Asia,
137–138
,
142–143
,
145–148
,
156–157
,
222

Psychic challenges of travel

   
introduced,
6–7

   
feeling disoriented (for some),
164–165

   
friendships and loneliness,
68–69

   
poverty, beggars, prostitutes,
138–142
,
148

Ramen,
21–22
,
252–253

Ranthambore National Park, India,
232–235

Rapp, Tom,
72–73
,
84

Refugees in Calais, France,
157–163

Reversal of Fortune
movie and book (Dershowitz),
117–118

Rome,
125
,
231
,
237–238

Roshan (Sri Lankan refugee),
159–162

Round-the-world trip stories,
32
,
93–98
,
118–119

Saigon, Vietnam

   
background, context,
12–14
,
27–30
,
39

   
copyediting for
Viet Nam News
,
107–110

   
as model for facing travel anxieties,
7–8
,
231

   
Pham Ngu Lao Street,
28–30
,
102
,
227

   
departing, returning to US,
110

Saigon Café,
30
,
37
,
68–69
,
101

St. Augustine,
223
,
262–263

Sandra,
79–81
,
232–235

Saveur
magazine,
4
,
180

Shoot
magazine,
111

Siddhartha,
34

Sidibé, Malick,
231
,
266

Sightseeing as an obligation,
104
,
232–236
,
244

Sihanoukville, Cambodia,
153–155

Skateboarding,
26
,
30
,
67
,
69
,
194

Skinny-dipping,
21
,
64

A Small World,
18
,
19–20
,
223
,
224

Snowboarding,
112
,
116

Solitude and isolation

   
craving companionship,
80–83

   
of cross-country US trip,
75–77

   
of hiking in Harz Mountains,
59

   
needing a soundtrack,
68

The Sorrow of War
(Bao Ninh),
14

The Sot-Weed Factor
(Barth),
34–35

Southeast Asian Film Festival, Phnom Penh (1997),
144–145
,
229–230

Spin the Globe story of Tunisia for
Afar
,
15–19
,
37
,
221–226

Star Wars
movie,
15
,
226

Starfish Project,
137–138
,
153–156

Steve (Lucy Hotel friend),
85
,
86
,
88–90

Strawberry Hill, Jamaica,
128–129

Street kids,
45
,
140–141
,
153–155

Superfudge
(Blume),
49

Tabula Peutingeriana,
169–171

Taipei, Taiwan trips,
113
,
196–198
,
205–207
,
209–213
,
267
,
270

Taiwan,
88
,
215–217

Taj Mahal,
234–235

Tâm Tâm cybercafé,
72–74
,
84

Tammy,
11–12
,
88
,
144

Tangier medina,
173
,
174–177

Teaching

   
English as a foreign language,
12
,
14
,
69
,
228

   
literature at Open University,
98–100
,
143

Ted (Bodhi Tree café expatriate)

   
introduced,
69
,
84

   
helps form writers group,
89

   
at
Viet Nam News
,
107–109

   
post-Saigon life,
90
,
135

Texas hill country,
244

Thailand,
4
,
112
,
116
,
206

Thanh, Le Thi,
14
,
27–28
,
51–52
,
53

Third World countries,
7
,
44
,
139

Time
magazine,
39–40

Tivoli Gardens, Denmark,
25
,
166–167
,
174

“To Be Young and Hip in Bangkok” story (Gross) in
New York Times
,
118

Tokyo, Japan,
21–22
,
117
,
252–253

Tolkien, J.R.R.,
24
,
167
,
262
,
264

Tourist–traveler dichotomy,
227–238
,
244–246
.
See also
Sightseeing as an obligation

Tourons,
139
,
226–228

Train trips

   
to Kaohsiung, Taiwan,
206

   
to Marijampolė, Lithuania,
259

   
from Sawai Madhopur to Agra, India,
79

   
from Urumqi to Beijing, China,
83
,
123–124

Travel + Leisure
magazine,
113

Travel agents,
8
,
19
,
112
,
261

Travel and world perspective

   
antagonism toward tourists,
139
,
227–228

   
connections between disparate points,
5–6
,
8
,
34

   
experiencing getting lost,
166–167
,
171
,
172–185

   
exploring and making friends,
77
,
123
,
134
,
185

   
inexpensive approach,
112–113

   
intertwined with living,
236
,
271

   
loneliness,
68

   
memories of failure vs. memories of successes,
6–8
,
36–37

   
motivations (
see
Motivations to travel
)

   
travelers vs. tourons vs. living in/knowing a country,
226–231

Travel preparation

   
intensive vs. serendipitous,
20–22

   
maps,
167–168

   
shifting frame of mind,
250

Truro, Massachusetts,
208
,
247
,
248

Tunisia,
18
,
221–226
,
245–246

Tuoi Tre newspaper
,
108

Turkey,
121–123
,
264

Tuyen (Lucy Hotel friend),
84–90

Twain, Mark,
237
,
262

Twitter,
18
,
224

Urumqi to Beijing railroad trip,
6
,
83
,
123–124
,
260–261

Venice, Italy,
94
,
97
,
98
,
173

Vienna to Budapest trek,
31
,
47
,
254

Viet Nam News

   
copyediting/writing in Hanoi, Saigon,
104–109

   
film festivals,
103
,
144–145

Vietnam

   
first impressions,
26

   
film festival,
104–107

   
food world,
40–42
,
54
(
see also
Food Passions
)

   
government restrictions on press,
106–108

   
as model for living in/knowing a country,
229–231

   
preparing for,
12–15

   
departures,
110
,
247

Vietnam Investment Review
,
85
,
103

Vietnamese language,
13
,
71–72
,
143
,
229–230

Vince (Jean's cousin),
211–213
,
217