Category Archives: Travel

On the Trail Of The Leopard

January 20, 2015 – 8:24 pm

Prior to the New Year my English friend Sara and her two daughters flew out to India to tour the subcontinent from the Himals to Goa. They landed in Delhi, traveled out to the Taj Mahal and the ghats of the Ganges before flying west to Rajahistan, the exotic desert province bordering the expansive and […]

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Bridges and Typewriters

November 22, 2014 – 6:15 am

In Jan. 1982 a french magazine ACTUEL hired me to work the work at their Paris nightclub, Le Rex. I bid good-bye to New York and flew from JFK to Heathrow with one bag of my best clothing and an Olivetti typewriter. After a brief visit with friends in London, I boarded a train at […]

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Sad Day for the Vikings

October 13, 2014 – 12:35 pm

Each end of promenade on Boston’s Commonwealth Avenue honor heroic personages. The only one I can remember is Leif Erickson, the Viking outlaw reputed to be the first European to set foot in the New World. The Norsemen were great sailors ranging from Byzantium to Vinland. The owner of Jenny Bar on Soi Xcite in […]

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Coastal Pit Stop / Laem Mae Phim

September 21, 2014 – 5:38 am

Last Thursday my two-year son, Fenway, his mom, and older cousin hit the road early Thursday morning for a road trip from Sriracha to a small village near Ta Phyara on the Thai-Cambodian border. I had rented a Toyota Altis 1.6 with good AC. Mam wanted me to straight-line to see her two older kids, […]

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The Catoosa Blue Whale

September 9, 2014 – 3:49 pm

Whales are everywhere. Even on Route 66. Why didn’t Chuck Berry sing about the Catoosa Blue Whale?

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