Category Archives: Travel

May 9 1990 – Kathmandu – Nepal – Journal Entry

November 10, 2024 – 11:57 am

Published on May 25, 2023 Kathmandu is a magical city filled with pilgrims traveling to the city’s holy shrines and temples of the pantheon of Asian religions. I haven’t seen a single church and with good reason. Jesus might have traveled to Kashmir after his crucifixition, but no one here worships him here. Certainly not […]

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May 16, 1990 Langtang Glacier – Nepal – Journal Entry

November 10, 2024 – 11:10 am

Published on: May 28, 2023 We have reached Langtang Village. 3500 meters. This is the highest I’ve been in this life. The porters and cook are busy smoking cigarettes and drinking hot tea heavily dosed with yak butter for strength and sustinence. Breakfast on the trail had been mostly oat porridge, eggs, chapati, pancakes with […]

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May 30 1992 – Bangkok – Journal

November 10, 2024 – 10:49 am

Two mornings ago I making a call at the overseas phone booth in the Malaysia Hotel. A young bearded man entered the lobby. We had last seen each other in Kathmandu 1990 after a trek to Lantang Glacier. Upon departure westward to Europe I had told Dice, if he was in Bangkok, then you should […]

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On The Road – Kerouac – July 2022

November 7, 2024 – 7:45 am

Route 6 – The Bear Mountain Bridge Every trip begins somewhere. PAGE ONE – ON THE ROAD I’d been poring over maps of the United States in Paterson for months, even reading books about the pioneers and savoring names like Platte and Cimarron and so on, and on the roadmap was one long red line […]

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Cleveland Ho

November 1, 2024 – 1:02 am

In April of 2011 I drove south from New York to the Northern Fork in Virginia. Ms. Carolina was recovering from yet-another battle with cancer. Her husband thought my visit might cheer up the blonde beauty. The Potomac River was cold, but I jumped from their dock into the frigid water. Ms. Carolina laughed at […]

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