Robert Durrette

Summer plans: I am currently on a 3-month long trip across the South and East of Asia. Check out summer travels for more info.



This is the personal website of Robert Durrette (Bobby). Here you'll find my résumé, portfolio, and blog when I travel abroad.

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And this country, one of those many that I have had the pleasure of visiting this summer, was towards the end of my trip. This proved to be more than appropriate, because there is a fascination with hammocks in Cambodia, allowing me to reflect on the entire journey whilst knocking back cheap Angkor beers. In traveling to all of these places, I have seen the best and the worst of Asia. I have seen laughter, everywhere. Toothy grins, children that jump on you only because they want to play with the westerner, the deepest levels of kindness, and a degree of fascination that nearly surpasses my own. Passionate and energetic cities, sleepy villages, man-made wonders, deeply-rooted spiritualism, raging features of the earth such as volcanos, waterfalls, rivers, seas, and oceans, and an effort to tame and modernize all of these things which reflects a level of resourcefulness unparalleled anywhere else on earth. I have, of course, been an outsider, and so I have also at times been a (mostly unsuccessful) target of cheats and scams. These did not deter me. And, bluntly, the good side of Asia has an unbelievable quality: once it pries you open, manages to slip inside you, and causes you to fall in love with its beauty, its people, and its treasures, you can only smile, laugh, and walk away from the bad. Moreover, you can sip on a cold, 30-cent beer while doing it.