I was just in SE Alaska, where I noticed the satel...

2010-06-12T19:11:14.547-07:00

I was just in SE Alaska, where I noticed the satellite dishes pointed directly at the horizon, almost down.

Though it's too late, I know, a great read on Borneo is "Stranger in the Forest" by Eric Hansen. If you don't already know his stuff, you should get acquainted with it before you travel to too many more places, he's a hell of a travel writer.

Deep in Borneo - or anywhere there may be relatively intact indigenous cultures - is where the traveler gets so close to something so precious, but touching it may destroy it. It's hard to know what to do from there. A lot of us travel to see cultural authenticity, but there's a bit of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle in it - if we can see it, it's probably not what it was.

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I was just in SE Alaska, where I noticed the satel...