In addition to maintaining my blog while traveling overseas, I was fortunate enough to be published as a weekly travel columnist for the Stamford Advocate, a 7-day daily published by Hearst Corporation with a circulation that reaches nearly 100,000 in Fairfield County, Conn. The following is the complete collection of PDFs of the 19-column series called “Passport: The World”:

Jan. 21, 2010: Flight to Thailand Begins the Grand Adventure

Jan. 25, 2010: Koh Phi Phi Holds Lessons for Haiti

Feb. 5, 2010: Good News from Thailand

Feb. 11, 2010: Welcome to the Jungle

Feb. 18, 2010: Without Water or ATM Card in Laos, but Plenty of Beauty

Feb. 25, 2010: The Alternate Universe of Vang Vieng

March 6, 2010: Discovering Kindred Spirits Half a World Away

March 12, 2010: Black and Blue, but Sans Regret

March 19, 2010: The History of Warfare Should Not be Entertainment

April 2, 2010: A Jewel Hidden Among Poverty

April 11, 2010: In Change of Plans, Southeast Asian Traveler Becomes (Temporary) Expatriate

April 22, 2010: A State of Emergency in the Land of Smiles

May 2, 2010: Tension Grows in Thailand

May 10, 2010: Visiting with Prisoners in Bangkok’s Immigration Detention Center

May 20, 2010: In Search of Reliable Tweets in Thailand

May 31, 2010: Eyewitness to a Dark Day in Thailand’s History

June 15, 2010: Worldwide, Food is Source of Comfort and Bonding

June 28, 2010: The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Traveler

July 5, 2010: The Final Stamp on the Passport