The Turk Who Loved Apples (44 page)

   
nongeographically,
176–177
,
182
,
183–184

   
for people with no sense of direction,
171–172

“Getting Lost” treks

   
Chongqing,
183–185

   
Las Vegas,
180
,
182

   
Mediterranean Odyssey,
180–182

   
Paris,
177–180

   
Tangier,
174–177

Giardia (
Giardia lamblia
),
42–48
,
54

Giardia: A Model Organism
(Luján),
56–57

Giardia vaccine,
56–58

Gone with the Wind
(Mitchell),
53

Google

   
maps,
167

   
for researching activities, trips,
19–20
,
133
,
184
,
236

Görgün, Kemal,
10
,
121–123

GPS mapping,
169
,
174
,
184

Graceland
album (Simon),
191
,
215

Greece, getting lost in,
180–182

Grosmütz family name,
256–260
,
271

Gross, Jean Liu.
See
Liu, Jean

Gross, Morris,
255
,
258
,
271

Gross, Nell,
192
,
193
,
195
,
216

Gross, Sasha Raven

   
birth of,
129

   
as an intercontinental traveler,
187–189
,
205–206
,
216–217

   
plays with Mai's child,
89–90

   
with stay-at-home dad,
267

Gross, Steve

   
complex relations with brother,
192–196

   
Montreal trip,
201–205
,
213–215
,
217–219

Guidebooks

   
inadequate,
15

   
traveling without,
10
,
173
,
174

   
See also
Fodor's Tunisia
;
Lonely Planet guidebooks

Gulf Islands of British Columbia,
21
,
63–66

Gypsies,
20–21
,
249–250

Hannity,
83
,
130–131

Hanoi International Film Festival,
103
,
104–107

Harissa
chili paste,
18
,
221
,
245

Herzog, Werner,
105

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
See
Saigon, Vietnam

Ho Chi Minh Open University,
27
,
28
,
98–100
,
143

Home

   
in context of wanderlust, foreign “homes,”
248–252

   
as disappointing,
113

   
as life intertwined with travel,
236
,
271

   
stasis becomes normal,
266–270

Horseback excursion in Kyrgyzstan,
31–34
,
37

Human trafficking,
115
,
148
,
159

Illness

   
flu in Cambodia,
46–47

   
giardia,
42–48
,
54

   
possibility of fox tapeworm,
60–61

   
severe close calls,
47–48

   
when traveling,
6

Independent traveling

   
as alternative to sightseeing,
235–236

   
by default,
8–10

   
inspired by solitude,
80–81

   
provides built-in drama,
126

India sightseeing,
79–81
,
232–236

Indian circus,
235

Indians, American,
241–243

Innocence vs. ignorance,
34–35

International Herald Tribune
newspaper,
109–110
,
230

Ireland,
31
,
177
,
235
,
256–257

Italy,
94–98

Jamaica,
90–91
,
116
,
127–129

Japan,
21–22
,
50
,
74
,
169
,
252–253

Jean.
See
Liu, Jean

Jed (Bodhi Tree expatriate),
69
,
84
,
89

Jewish identity,
69
,
199
,
257–260

Johns Hopkins University,
26
,
111
,
112
,
198

Johns Hopkins University Bologna Center,
95–96

Jost Van Dyke island,
36

Journalism.
See
Writing

The Jungle Always Wins
(Gross),
113
,
114
,
238

Kampot, Cambodia,
116
,
168–169

Kentucky,
78
,
82–83

Khmer language,
115
,
138
,
147
,
155
,
156

Khmer Rouge,
115
,
144
,
238

Khuyen, Cong Nguyen,
104–105
,
106–107

Kills Crow, J. T.,
241–243

Kite surfers of Mui Ne, Vietnam,
116

Kopilevich, Regina,
254–259

Kyrgyzstan,
31–34
,
37
,
172

La Belle Étoile in Calais, France,
158
,
161

Language.
See under specific languages

Lariam (mefloquine),
43
,
45

Las Vegas, Nevada,
173
,
180
,
182

L'Assommoir
(Zola),
164

Laurentian Mountains snowshoeing,
213–215

Legoland in Billund, Denmark,
24
,
25

Leigh Fermor, Patrick,
254
,
263

Lina,
137–138
,
149–157
,
161
,
162

Lisbon and Galicia, Spain stories,
97
,
98

Lithuania,
255–260

Liu, Jean

   
introduced,
111

   
conflicts with parents,
200–201

   
family visits in Taipei,
113
,
196–198

   
and
Fodor's Tunisia
,
16–18

   
marriage moratorium and marriage,
206–209

   
prepares for trips by shifting frame of mind,
250

   
pre-Sasha,
189–190

   
as traveler,
80
,
112
,
189–190
,
231

Liu, Kan-nan.
See
Liu family

Liu family (Jean's parents, relatives),
196–197
,
200–201
,
206–208
,
215–217

Lodging tips,
132–133

Loneliness

   
and friendship in strange places,
68

   
as an outsider,
75

   
succumbing to,
6
,
7

   
and Westerners' fear of rejection,
80

Lonely Planet guidebooks,
15
,
30
,
102–103
,
122
,
227

Lotus.
See
ELT Lotus teachers

Lucy Hotel, Saigon

   
accommodations described,
28
,
54
,
109

   
circle of friends, expatriates,
83–90

   
owner,
84
,
87–90

   
staff,
28–29
,
87
,
143
,
230

Luján, Hugo,
56–58

Lu'o'n nu'ó'ng mia
,
40
,
56

Mai (Lucy Hotel friend),
85
,
86
,
89–90

Malaysia foodie road trip,
83
,
118–119

Mali,
231
,
266

Manhattan's Lower East Side,
110–112
,
253

Map reading and directional sense,
167–172
,
179

Marijampolė, Lithuania,
255
,
257–260
,
271

Marxist-Leninist literary thought,
100–101

Mediterranean Odyssey,
180–182

Metronidazole,
44
,
57

Mexico

   
Jean's travel experiences,
189–190

   
Mercado Central, Mexico City,
231–232

   
and traveling with giardia,
47–48
,
112

Money

   
earned in Vietnam, Cambodia,
101–109

   
injected by tourists into economies,
245

   
See also
Costs of traveling

Montana,
6
,
173

Montreal, Quebec trip,
201–205
,
213–215
,
217–219

Motivations to travel

   
overview,
260–263

   
exploration and making friends,
77
,
123
,
134

   
flowing naturally into lifestyle,
112–113

   
risks and adventures,
26
,
31–34

Museum of American War Crimes,
75
,
229

Myanmar (Burma) trip,
1–4
,
5
,
242
,
266

Nana
(Zola),
164

New York.
See
Manhattan's Lower East Side

New York
magazine,
112
,
113

New York Times

   
bans press junkets,
125–126

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

   
Fish's piece,
235–236

   
Travel section editors,
93
,
97–98
,
114
,
116–124
,
174
,
184

   
See also under specific destinations, assignments, and
“The Frugal Traveler”

Newport, Rhode Island,
117–118

Novel Without a Name
(Duong Thu Huong),
14

Odysseus,
180–182
,
249

Oglala Lakota Sioux,
241

Oklahoma City,
244

Pailin, Cambodia,
115
,
238–240
,
245

Paris

   
getting lost in,
173
,
177–180