Leaf: This was the traffic jam Brendan & I got stuck in for an hour. Election fever in the blazing heat of an Indian summer! I ended up wetting my scarf and wrapping it around my head so that my brain wouldn't explode. (Varanasi, India)

Rae: I was sitting in a park one hot evening in Laos when a Vietnamese woman rode up on a bicycle carrying many plastic buckets and an old coke bottle full of water. When she offered me a manicure, how could I resist? (Vientiane, Laos)