All general blog entries
There wasn’t a mad dash to the airport, it was simply a taxi ride that got me to the airport in Tumbes on time to catch my flight. As we took off, heading for Lima, I looked down on the landscape passing below and recalled my very first trip to … Read more...
Continue reading...→I did a lot of motorcycle driving when I was at my post in Ratchaburi, but every so often I just didn’t want to deal with the hassle of staying out of the way of the lumbering ten-wheel trucks, or deal with the ever-present white-capped ninjas that … Read more...
Continue reading...→Despite all the information imparted about the wonderful places to visit in Ecuador during the hour-long conversation of the previous day, I could not change my plans, and I had to head to the bus station for the next phase of my trip, the ride from Quito to Tumbes in Peru. … Read more...
Continue reading...→I alluded to questions in one of the earlier entries of this blog dealing with Thailand, and of course the initial thoughts about writing a book with the title “20 Questions”. There are naturally other things besides the questions which a first-time visitor to Thailand might have to … Read more...
Continue reading...→Nadie pudo
recordarlas después: el viento
las olvidó, el idioma del agua
fue enterrado, las claves se perdieron
o se inundaron de silencio o sangre.
[No one could
remember them afterward: the wind
forgot them, the language of water
was buried, the keys were lost
or flooded with silence … Read more...
