Category Archives: Travel

March 6 1991 – Palu, Sulawesi – Journal

September 5, 2024 – 2:25 pm

After a week’s diving on Bunaken I was lucky enough to catch the KM Karuna from Bitung, the port for Manado, at the top of Sulawesi. The liner cruised the jungled shore heading east to Borneo. The German-built ship is spacious and only one other Mistah is aboard. A Dutchman. Even after fourhundred years of […]

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Welcome To the 20th Century – LIRR – MONTAUK

September 5, 2024 – 10:32 am

Tuesday afternoon the 2:45 PM train from Montauk to Jamaica was late. The EMD DE30AC locomotive crawls into the station of the dual standard gauge tracks stopping on Gate 1, as it does every day, although rarely on time. The locomotive was built between 1997–1999 by Electro-Motive Division in the Super Steel Plant in Schenectady, […]

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Long Island RR Crossing

September 5, 2024 – 10:09 am

on a LIRR train from Montauk. Racing through the southern tier of Suffolk county. Cars stopped at train crossings. The blank faces of commuters released from work___ I so wish I was one of them. Accepting my fate of 9 to 5 job monotony. If in a car Home only minutes away Wife or second […]

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Labor Day Travel

September 1, 2024 – 11:21 am

Written Sep 1, 2022 In 2008 my good friend Alan Vaughan called from Gary, Indiana. He was driving to Florida. I told him I was leaving Palm Beach for New England. We hadn’t seen each other in a good 6 or 7 years. “How you getting north?” “I’m hitchhiking on I-95. I figure it will […]

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July 20, 1994 – Penang – Journal

August 14, 2024 – 9:42 am

Knocking the door by the Chinese desk clerk of the Swiss Hotel. Danny tells me that I have a phone call. It’s 8:21 a.m. I had difficulty getting to sleep last night. For some reason garlic keeps me awake. I got out of bed wrapped the towel around my waist and walk down the corridor […]

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