Yogyakarta
Central Java
May 22, 2005
Dear Family and Friends,
I had to leave Bandung. I wanted to stay a day or two longer. I was enjoying the sights and my new friends. But my chest was heaving, my eyeballs burning, my whole system in rebellion. The pollution so intense.
FORGET PHUKET...WELL, NOT YET….
Phuket
Thailand
June 7, 2006
Dear Family and Friends,
I am standing on the upper deck of the 27 meter motor craft “Kong Tong” – Golden Mountain – as the young deck hands weigh anchor from the bottom of Phang Nga Bay.
Jaipur to Bikaner
Rajasthan, India
February 24, 2007
Dear Family and Friends,
The phrase "Horn Please" is emblazoned in huge, colorful and artistic boldfaced letters on the rear end of every powerful, solid, steel-framed intercity truck. Or "Sound Horn" appears. Or "Blow Horn." My favorite is "Blow Horn." India is a nation of one billion horn blowers.
It is good form. Everyone is encouraged to sound his horn to alert the truck driver ahead that his rig is about to be overtaken. And, (and this is a big "and") every driver of every type of vehicle alerts everyone else of his presence and his insistence to proceed unimpeded according to some preordained universal master transport plan known only to himself.
Kaunas
Lithuania
September 19, 2014
The Eyes Cannot Answer “Why?”
The eyes. The eyes. Always the eyes!
The eyes remember. The eyes see. Do the eyes foretell?
The eyes know. The eyes teach.
The eyes know what happened.
Do the eyes know why?
Test map
Athens
Greece
April 24, 2015
My friends,
I suppose that when you think of Athens you think of Greek temples and marble columns and sculpture from centuries ago. And I am sure that very soon I will see those unique features of the city.
But on this first morning I head out from my hotel to Victoria Square. From the square I can take the subway to the Acropolis stop. But instead I decide to walk in that direction. I eventually arrived at the station but not at the temple.
