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New articles on Mainstreetok.com

06/26/09 8:40 A GMT+01
As of this week, I've begun writing articles for the Daily Oklahoman's online newspaper for the Oklahoma Panhandle, Mainstreetok.com. The first is a feature piece on traveling to North Korea.
Ashley Moore

The Misfits: Nomadism, Genetics and an Inability to Settle

07/16/08 11:45 P GMT+01
The past might not be through with us: nomadic genetics may account for novelty-seeking, food and drug cravings and ADHD in contemporary society...if evolutionary biology is to be believed. From the Economist
Ashley Moore

Postcards from Germany: I want to ride my bicycle, I want to ride my bike

06/09/08 9:54 A GMT+01
With gas priced at over eight dollars per gallon, traveling in Germany is necessarily unique.
Ashley Moore

[Photo Album] Dixieland II: New Orleans

05/25/07 10:13 P GMT+01
I had been warned by my family, who lived in New Orleans before Katrina, that the place still looked like a battlezone. Though the unheimlich should have quashed our revelry, we were not to be kept down.
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Ashley Moore

America the Beautiful

05/24/07 6:05 A GMT+01
The bluffs along the Buffalo River in Arkansas, the colonial architecture of Charleston, Brooklyn or the Appalachian Valley: America really is beautiful!
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Ashley Moore

Big Brother USA

10/22/06 10:46 A GMT+01
The US is issuing frigthening new passports with electronic chips that store personal information.
Ashley Moore

[Photo Album] North Korea before Asia's own July 4th fireworks

07/10/06 4:49 A GMT+01
We were handed ID badges to wear at all times and warned of the consequences of destroying them: If your badge is bent, you will be fined. If your badge is wet, you will be fined. If you destroy your badge in any other way, you will be fined.
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Ashley Moore

North Korea: Three Weeks to Launch

06/12/06 9:31 A GMT+01
My status as an American prohibits me from visiting Pyongyang, running into Kim Jong-Il and single-handedly solving the North Korean nuclear weapons issue, but at least I'll get in some good hiking when I head to Geumgang Mountains in North Korea.
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Ashley Moore

[Photo Album] Korean Sumo: Ssireum

05/23/06 2:59 A GMT+01
They call it ssireum, but it might as well be called Korean Sumo. Whatever the name, our students conned Zac into wrestling another teacher during our school's recent Sports Day celebration.
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Ashley Moore

[Photo Album] Trekking in Gangwon Province, South Korea

05/23/06 2:27 A GMT+01
Spring in Korea is gorgeous: the weather, the sights and the smells.
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Ashley Moore

[Photo Album] Dance Party ROK

05/07/06 4:50 A GMT+01
...the park was thumping with psychadelic techno music. The place was overrun with seniors (geriatrics, not the high school kind) high on soju. We found the source of the techno and its aged devotees, wobbling around an improvised dance floor.
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Ashley Moore

[Photo Album] Nineteen bucks

04/26/06 4:17 P GMT+01
In Korea, nineteen bucks will buy you a trip to the doctor/pharmacy or 40 small trash bags. Take your pick.
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Ashley Moore

[Photo Album] Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto

03/31/06 9:24 A GMT+01
We somehow lucked into landing in Fukuoka, Japan, right when the cherry trees were blooming and my senses were taken in.
Ashley Moore

Korean Sushi: Not for Pansies

02/21/06 2:33 P GMT+01
On a food experimentation scale of one to ten, one being "I'll play it safe and stick to McDonald's" and ten being "Bring on the monkey brains and chicken urine," I'm a solid seven. However, Korean sushi is not for pansies.
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Ashley Moore

[Photo Album] Camping on the Great Wall

06/01/05 7:55 A GMT+01
Sometimes living in China has its perks, like ready access to unrestored sections of the Great Wall with convenient little guard towers perfect for camping.
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Ashley Moore

[Photo Album] How to die fantastically, or Pandas in Chengdu

04/06/05 4:59 P GMT+01
So, if you're planning on dying anytime soon, may I suggest a visit to Wolong Panda Reserve in Sichuan Province? The pandas won't kill you--although that, getting squashed by a hay cart and being the victim of a bicyclist's road rage are also
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Ashley Moore

[Photo Album] Mexico, USA, PRC: Winter Vacation 2005

01/24/05 4:59 P GMT+01
This winter vacation was a whirlwind, but a VERY good time. Priscilla, her friend Michelle from Philadelphia and I went to Cancun for Prissy's bachelorette shindig and had way too much fun. We met some awesome people, went to some great parties a
Ashley Moore

[Photo Album] Thailand: October 2004

10/10/04 4:59 P GMT+01
Ah, Thailand! This place is like a black hole in the web of reality that could pull you into its center and never allow you to return to your normal life again. Ko Pha-Ngan, where I spent most of my time, is beautiful, serene and devoid of obnoxi
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Ashley Moore

[Photo Album] Cyndi Lauper at the Great Wall

10/05/04 4:59 P GMT+01
Check the concert listings for your favorite bands, any bands, and see if they ever come anywhere near Beijing. Yeah, a lot of acts play in Tokyo, but China is mostly totally off-limits...except to Hanson and the Backstreet Boys. I'm not kidding.
Ashley Moore

[Photo Album] Pingyao, China: September 2004

09/09/04 4:59 P GMT+01
Three coworkers and I took a weekend trip to Pingyao, a Chinese town made famous by the trading and banking systems that wealthy merchants in the area set up. The main attractions in Pingyao are the well-preserved city wall and the old merchants' hou
Ashley Moore

[Photo Album] USA and Mexico: July and August 2004

07/01/04 4:59 P GMT+01
During my second five-week vacation of the school year, I headed home to see my family and friends in Oklahoma and Alabama for a few weeks. My dad and I flew to Auburn, Alabama, and met my mom and sisters there. We had a great visit with my grandma
Ashley Moore

Xi'an Terra Cotta Warriors: May 2004

05/02/04 4:59 P GMT+01
One of the many great things about living in China is that they take three week-long holidays throughout the year. Over the May holiday, a coworker and I ventured out to see the Terracotta Warriors at Xi'an.
Ashley Moore

[Photo Album] Great Wall of China at Badaling: March 2004

03/01/04 4:59 P GMT+01
Holy meandering wall Batman. This place is amazing. Some people will dump on the commercialism and restoration process that has made it possible for this truly Great Wall to become a safe and thriving attraction, but independent of all of the "p
Ashley Moore

[Photo Album] This Chinese Life

01/01/04 4:59 P GMT+01
Here are some pictures from China that defy categorization. Click on the picture to read a description of what it is and where it was taken. Enjoy!
Ashley Moore

[Photo Album] Shanghai: October 2003

10/03/03 4:59 P GMT+01
Shanghai is like nothing that you'll see anywhere else in mainland China. Yeah, it's a big city that's been done before all over the western world, but it's an anomaly in China outside of Taiwan and Hong Kong. The architecture
Ashley Moore

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