Category Archives: Travel

Welcome to Palestine

April 16, 2012 – 6:51 pm

An Israeli soldier has been suspended after video footage showed him hitting a foreign pro-Palestinian activist in the face with his gun during a bicycle rally in the occupied West Bank, according to the Israeli military. This weekend at dinner in Montauk Richie Boy addressed my old lead about the one-state solution for Israel. “Israel […]

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THE FIRST TEN MILES by Peter Nolan Smith 

April 12, 2012 – 12:06 pm

Early on a warm May morning my friend AK, a blonde BU co-ed, and I traveled by the trolley to Jamaica Plains, where we were picking up a 1973 Ford Torino station wagon to transport cross-country. Upon our arrival at the address, the middle-aged owner descended the tenement’s steps to the sidewalk. He tapped at […]

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UP HIGH by Peter Nolan Smith

April 9, 2012 – 10:15 pm

The afternoon sun hovered over the distant mountains to the West. I checked the clock over the Inferno Lounge’s bar. The hands of the old time instrument said 10:24. I pointed to it and the bartender said,?It?s been broke for years. The regulars like it that way.” I held out my hand to the gap […]

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Bonneville Salt Flats August 1972

April 3, 2012 – 11:02 am

In summer of 1967 I was a 15 year-old boy living on the South Shore of Boston. The newspapers and TV spoke about the youth people with long hair converging on San Francisco. These ‘hippies’ were the next step in the evolution of freedom. They preached peace and love. 3000 miles separated my body and […]

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Voyage to the Bottom of the Ocean

March 26, 2012 – 5:40 pm

James Cameron is one of Hollywood’s biggest earners. His two films TITANIC and AVATAR grossed billions and Avatar CS MONITOR. His 2010 income was reported to top $250 million and a man with that much money can appease his every whim. The famed director has answered the call of the deep ocean by descending to […]

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