The Turk Who Loved Apples (43 page)

Bao Ninh,
14

Barth, John,
34–35
,
75

Baudelaire, Charles,
105
,
177
,
178

The Beast Within
(Zola),
163

Being There
movie,
13

Belkhodja, Abdelaziz,
223–225
,
245

The Belly of Paris
(Zola),
164

Ben Ali, Zine El Abidine,
18
,
224

Berries (wild),
60–61
,
65
,
259
,
268

Billboard
magazine,
109

Black Hills of South Dakota,
76
,
240–241

Bodhi Tree café expatriates,
69–70
,
84
,
86
,
88–89
,
107

Bokor Mountain, Cambodia,
114–115
,
116

Bologna, Italy,
94–97

Bourbon,
78
,
81

Brehm, Klaus,
61

Bridgeport, Connecticut,
23
,
258
,
260

The Bridges of Madison County
movie,
103

Brotherly connections with Steve,
193–196
,
201–205

Buber, Martin,
262

Buchanan, Cassady,
63–66
,
90–91

Burma.
See
Myanmar

Calais, France,
157–163

Cambodia

   
arrival from US,
113–115

   
depressing Pailin,
238–240
,
244

   
film festival during political instability,
31
,
144–145

   
under Hun Sen,
148–149
,
151

   
millennium celebration by monks,
46–47
,
112

Car calamities,
11–12

Carthage,
223
,
225
,
262

Case, Neko,
75
,
76

Chatwin, Bruce,
262
,
264

Chez Trinh in Williamsburg,
40
,
41

Children as travelers,
22–25
,
187–189
,
205–206
,
216–217

Chongqing, China,
173
,
183–185

Chowhound.com
,
20
,
133

Columbus, New Mexico,
130–132

Columbus, Ohio,
113
,
206

Co'm bình dân
,
54–56
,
109

Concord, Massachusetts,
192
,
249
,
256

Confessions
(St. Augustine),
223
,
262–263

Copyediting

   
as employment,
228–229

   
in New York,
111–113

   
for
Viet Nam News
,
104–110

Costs of traveling

   
cheap traveling tips,
132–134

   
expensive destinations,
116
,
124

   
on limited income,
112–113

   
not as important as why, how,
135

   
prioritizing,
134–135

   
on story budgets,
22
,
117

CouchSurfing.org
,
18
,
19
,
83
,
132
,
224

Cu Chi Tunnels,
42–43
,
229

Cultural adaptation

   
to illness when traveling,
44–47

   
understanding how to eat,
40–42

   
to Vietnamese culinary world,
54–56

Cybercafés,
72
,
124

Cyclos,
29
,
104

Danielson, Dave,
68–69
,
103
,
227–228

Debord, Guy,
177–178

Denmark,
23–25
,
166–167

Diarrhea.
See
Giardia

Douglas (pseudonym)

   
introduced,
73

   
as big brother,
74
,
86

   
helps form writers group,
89

   
language skills,
229–230

   
in Phnom Penh,
144–146

   
post-Saigon life,
90

Dr. Who
,
23
,
24

Duong Thu Huong,
14

Duras, Marguerite,
253

Dylan, Bob,
76
,
85

ELT Lotus teachers,
68–69
,
101
,
103

England,
25
,
159–161
,
174
,
191

English as a foreign language

   
teacher training,
99

   
teaching employees,
69

   
teaching in Vietnam,
12
,
14
(
see also
ELT Lotus teachers
)

Ethical considerations

   
concealing/revealing
Times
identity,
32–33
,
65
,
90–91
,
127–131

   
the dilemma of severe poverty, prostitutes, beggars,
138–142
,
148

   
policies against press junkets,
125–126

   
of traveling in Third World,
7

Ethics in Journalism Policy (
New York Times)
,
125–127

European Frugal Grand Tour,
124
,
256

Expatriates

   
cafés in Saigon,
30
,
42
,
69

   
in Cambodia,
137
,
138
,
150
,
154

   
friendships among,
69–70

   
glamorous professionals in Saigon,
102

   
Lucy Hotel circle,
84–90

   
Saigon Writers Workshop,
89
,
109

   
as semipermanent vs. backpackers,
102–103

   
Somali,
160

   
in Tangier,
176

   
as
Viet Nam News
audience,
104–106

Exploration as purpose and longing,
73
,
134
,
229
,
253

Facebook,
8
,
18
,
19
,
83
,
133
,
250

Family

   
acceptance by in-laws,
207–209
,
212
,
216
,
217

   
and Asian public–private identity distinctions,
197–199

   
daughter (see
Gross, Sasha Raven
)

   
enjoyment of food,
48–49

   
father,
23–25
,
166
,
191–192
,
199
,
255
,
256

   
Grandma Rosalie,
12
,
249

   
Jean's family in Taipei,
196–197
,
200–201
,
205–208
,
215–217

   
mother,
15
,
48
,
191–193
,
195–196
,
199

   
siblings (
see
Gross, Nell
;
Gross, Steve
)

   
as travelers,
22–25
,
187–189
,
191–193

   
wife (
see
Liu, Jean
)

Family origins,
254–260
,
271

Farmwork.
See
World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms

Fasigyn (tinidazole),
57

Film festivals,
31
,
103
,
104–107
,
144–145

Fish, Stanley,
235–236
,
237

Fodor's Tunisia
,
17–19

Food passions

   
Bologna disappointments,
95

   
broadening the palate,
49–56

   
as connection to people, places,
54

   
frugal tips,
133

   
learning from A-Mui,
209–213

   
loss of appetite from giardia,
48

   
shared with brother Steve,
202

   
for Vietnamese food,
40–41

   
when hiking in German Harz Mountains,
58–61

   
writing gastro-tourist narrative,
245–246

Fox tapeworm (
fuchsbandwurm
),
60–61

FoxNews.com
,
111–112

France,
157–162
,
177–180
,
231

Freelancing,
110
,
113
,
126

French Indochina,
14
,
39

French language,
176
,
203–204
,
224

Friendships

   
of Bodhi Tree expats,
69
,
84
,
88–89

   
challenges in establishing,
68–69

   
with Douglas,
73–74

   
ephemerality of,
83

   
of Lucy Hotel circle,
83–90

   
as motivation for traveling,
134

   
needed for stories,
77

   
of refugees Roshan and Ahmed,
159–162

   
with single point of commonality,
66–67

   
with Tom of Tâm Tâm Café,
72–74
,
84

   
with Vietnamese people,
70–71

“The Frugal Traveler” column

   
introduced,
6–7
,
19–20
,
116–117

   
budgets,
117

   
cheap traveling tips,
132–134

   
cross-country (US) assignment,
75–77
,
124
,
130

   
early problems with round-the-world stories,
93–98
,
118–120

   
readers' comments, complaints,
81
,
120
,
134–135

   
story writing approaches,
124–125

Gastro-tourist,
245–246

Geissler, Christoph,
61

George, Don,
171–172

Georgia (country),
80
,
120
,
172

Germany,
58–61

Getting lost

   
childhood experience,
166–167

   
deliberately,
172–185