Category Archives: Travel

Biloxi Wintah January 1975

March 25, 2025 – 9:37 am

A gray Monday morning in Clinton reminiscing on a drive across the USA. Biloxi Wintah January 1975 An hour after sunset we passed through Ocala. Old Bill was the co-pilot. I was at the wheel. The cowboy town looked mean and I drove the speed limit. Florida was a big state at 55. We joined […]

By Peter | Also posted in semi-fiction | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

A Hotel Room Off The Highway 1985

March 20, 2025 – 10:44 am

A little after midnight I pull the Pontiac LeMans Off the interstate Before Flagstaff Onto Route 66___ Kyla sleeps against the door Not knowing we are stopping for the night At a motel The Flamingo Motel Hotel Red sign bright neon I pull up to the office Get us a room Kyla wake “Where are […]

By Peter | Also posted in Poetry, The West | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Lhasa-Nepal 1995

March 16, 2025 – 2:38 am

I spent early September- late October of 1995 in Tibet. I traveled around Lhasa visiting various monasteries. Sera, Drepung, Ganden and the Tsurphu Monastery, home to the Karmapa rinoche. I prayed at each one for my baby brother’s departed soul. Michael had died of AIDS that summer. I especially liked the Jokhang. There was no […]

By Peter | Also posted in 90s, Asia, photo-romans | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

South From Tibet 1995

March 13, 2025 – 8:22 pm

In early November 1995 I had hitched a ride from Shitgatze, Tibet south on my way to the Nepali border after spending a month in Lhasa. After a few hours on the Friendship Highway I was dropped at the t-intersection of two dirt roads; National Highways 318 and 219. The van disappeared west and I […]

By Peter | Also posted in 90s, Asia, peace, Poetry | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Singapore Air NO NO 2013

February 24, 2025 – 6:06 am

Back in the 1950s more adventurous western travelers to Singapore frequented Bugis Street to view the Pearl of the Orient’s notorious cavalcade of beautiful transvestites. The laissez-faire atmosphere of the sex entrepot was an affront to the city-state’s puritanical President and by the late 1980s Bugis Street had been sanitized of perversion and by the […]

By Peter | Also posted in 60s, Asia, Sex | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)