The Legacy Cycle

World traveler, anthropologist turned economist, & author of Travels in the Land of Hunger & the sci-fi/fantasy novel Dark Legacy: Book I - Trinity.

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Travels in the Land of Hunger is now available on Amazon.

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The Kindle version is ranked #1 in the "New Releases in Far East Asia Travel" category!

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This week brought one of those moments that make the long hours worth it.

EZ NOMICS has officially reached 10,000 YouTube subscribers! 🎉
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I am deeply grateful to the EZ community!

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Passage from Travels in the Land of Hunger: A backpacker's earthbound journey from the East to the West 🌏📖

Friday, May 21, 2004
Upon the walls of Angkor Wat and many other temples, I saw stone reliefs of ...
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Passage from Travels in the Land of Hunger🌏📖

The Temples of Angkor Wat
Friday, May 21, 2004
Upon the walls of Angkor Wat and many other temples, I saw stone reliefs of dancing, bare-breasted Khmer women wearing elaborate headdresses ...

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Passage from Travels in the Land of Hunger🌏📖

The Temples of Angkor Wat
Friday, May 21, 2004
Perhaps over 1,000 temples in varying states were built between the 9th and 15th centuries ...
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Passage from Travels in the Land of Hunger 🌏📖
The Temples of Angkor Wat
Friday, May 21, 2004
The size and scale of this urban complex are considered the largest in the preindustrial world ...
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Friday, May 21, 2004
I have never encountered another archaeological marvel, such as the Khmer Empire capital city of Angkor. The size and scale of this urban complex ...

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Friday, May 21, 2004
... About a half hour later, we left our hotel with our moto-taxi drivers to catch the sunrise over the sandstone towers of the temple complex of Angkor Wat ...
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Passage from Travels in the Land of Hunger 🌏📖
Tuesday, May 20, 2004
... At the top of the stairs and across a flat open plain stood the impressive walled pyramid temple ruin of Phnom Bakheng, composed of five levels.
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Passage from Travels in the Land of Hunger 🌏📖

Tuesday, May 20, 2004
Many tourists and backpackers gathered at this site to hike and climb Phnom Bakheng, a Hindu and Buddhist temple built in the 9th century, to view the sunset from its peak ...
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Tuesday, May 20, 2004
Leonardo and the other driver took us to Prasat Trapeang Ropou. Many tourists and backpackers gathered at this site to hike and climb Phnom Bakheng ...
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Passage from Travels in the Land of Hunger🌏📖

Tuesday, May 20, 2004
I backtracked and decided to walk east out of town on the main road, and along the way ...
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Passage from Travels in the Land of Hunger 🌏📖
Tuesday, May 20, 2004
Walking, I saw many thatched homes built on stilts and the occasional affluent home. I also found a small library a Japanese woman had founded.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2004
We finally entered Tonlé Sap Lake. The lake was massive, but the crew started to worry as we began crossing it because it was becoming shallower ...
#travelmemoir #cambodia #cambodiatravel #tonlesaplake

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Passage from Travels in the Land of Hunger 🌏📖

Tuesday, May 19, 2004
I descended the ladder and saw my wooden boat filled with locals and bags of vegetables, baguettes, and other goods to be transported to the local markets around Tonlé Sap Lake ...
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Passage from Travels in the Land of Hunger 🌏📖

Tuesday, May 19, 2004
... I decided to pass on breakfast since I didn’t think they had enough time to prepare it. Instead, I took a brief morning stroll through Battambang.

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Passage from Travels in the Land of Hunger 🌏📖

Tuesday, May 18, 2004
We arrived at the crocodile farm, composed of pool pits and high walls. I walked along the tops of the half-a-meter-thick high walls, looking down into the pits, and saw that all the crocodiles ...

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Tuesday, May 18, 2004
When we returned to the base of the mountain, I ... hopped onto the back of the scooter with my driver, and away we went down the dirt road that soon layered my glasses, shirt, and shorts with dust. #battambang

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Tuesday, May 18, 2004
... The boy led me down into a cave pit, which served as the entrance to one of two locations on the mountain that were killing sites during Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge reign from 1975 to 1979.

#killingfields

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Passage from Travels in the Land of Hunger🌏📖

Tuesday, May 18, 2004
We arrived at a few small, old temples. The boy led me down into a cave pit, which served as the entrance to one of two locations on the mountain that were killing sites during Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge reign ...

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Passage from Travels in the Land of Hunger 🌏📖

Tuesday, May 18, 2004
At around two in the afternoon, we arrived in Battambang, the second largest city in Cambodia, but to my Chicago and Tokyo eyes, it was a tiny town ...

#travelmemoir #backpacking #Cambodia #killingfields