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It is 10:30PM. Here in Albuquerque. Where I’ve been living for the last six weeks it is between 8:30 and 11:30AM. Travel, wonderful as it is and grateful as I am for the opportunity, has left me feeling a day late and a dollar short as the expression goes. Must sleep, can’t sleep. First issue. The doctor and tax bills that arrived in my absence were expected but still feel very unwelcome…. Read More
Home now. Happy to be here. Happy to have been a traveler for the last six weeks. Fell behind on my ‘reporting’ because of lack of internet access for the last couple of weeks. I’ll catch up this evening and over the next day or two with photo albums from Beijing, ferry to Seoul, Seoul and (maybe) a disjointed rant, “Delta Done” before I actually feel DONE. But now…back to Beijing. By… Read More
This was written a few days ago now, between Ulan Bator and Beijing. It’s another train story…and truly I do so love these long distance trains. One emerges a bit grumpy and grubby and banged around and exhausted and ever so pleased with oneself. Why is that? I LOVE THESE SNAKY BUMPY CREATURES. Another day another train another moment of gazing at world going by outside my window and being very very… Read More
Since I was Google-less in China (Have I complained enough about that now?) and couldn’t post pictures, here’s an album from the Great Wall and Ming Tomb Day. That perfect sunny day in and around Beijing, China. What are the odds, me who likes rain so much, actually getting to see the views from the Great Wall…which is indeed GREAT. Wow. As I said in a post somewhere it makes me want… Read More
Absolutely last album from Mongolia—an other-worldly place I should write a thoughtful piece about—the land, the experience, the issue of culture-clash that can happen with the best of intentions. I should write about my visit and “The Eagle Huntress.” Maybe I will at the end of my posts for 2015 and 2016.
Some extra photos of this strange out-of-the-way land. More horses and a trip to a monastery.
I was writing this on the last days in Mongolia. At the time I was somewhat stressed by an unfortunate disconnect with my guide which slightly colored the time in this incredible land. It was a bit of a love-hate relationship there for awhile. Now with that adventure less than a week past I’m already looking at my time in Mongolia as very special. So given this delay in posting I have… Read More
It is September 11th…I had forgotten the significance to the U.S. until waking up after a nap in my sweet little hotel in Seoul, South Korea to CNN coverage. I suppose we could remember all of the time in the form of ISIS/ISIL which was born out of our response to 9/11—the breaking of Iraq. But for now let me go back to Mongolia and the horses. WHEN I WAS A KID…PLACES THAT WEREN’T… Read More
Seoul, South Korea where I am drinking a very nice white wine and lovingly stroking the Google letters on my keyboard and looking forward to a night with Surfy in my spiffy upscale boutique hotel room with everything working and smelling really good and all this shit in life I suppose we really don’t need but we love. I am at the Hotel ShinShin in Seoul and everything has been amazing here… Read More
I DID IT. SIBERIAN TRAIN TURNS OUT TO BE A PIECE OF CAKE COMPARED TO MONGOLIA BUT THAT IS ANOTHER STORY. COMING TO YOU EVENING FROM HERE IN BEAUTIFUL DOWNTOWN UB. SIBERIAN TRAIN. DAY FOUR: AUGUST 31, 2015. READY FOR DRY LAND ONCE AGAIN. CREW HAS SCURVY AND I’M SURE I HEARD ‘MAN OVERBOARD’ AT LEAST ONCE LAST NIGHT. 1:55am The windows are now seriously dirty. It’s still overcast, gray. Chilly. Trees… Read More