The first day had been a long day, but interesting, and the trip along highways and byways had already shown me a lot of diversity that is Japan. Following our day-long adventures in Matsuyama we prepared for the next day, when my plan included a drive along highway 494 from Matsuyama … Read more...
Continue reading...→I have for many years tried to travel outside of Thailand at specific times of the year, particularly during the April New Year or Songkran celebration, and at the end of December into early January. The trip in April is so I can miss the entire rowdy, drunken … Read more...
Continue reading...→As with many such things, memories from a quarter century ago are not easily retrieved, and although there are some things I do remember, I cannot for the life of me remember the name of the restaurant where we ate in Alice Springs. It was evening, and it felt like … Read more...
Continue reading...→As much as I had wanted to go to Russia when I was a teen, I also had big plans to visit the other end of the planet, and possibly as far away from Canada as one can get, by going to Australia. When I finished college and set off … Read more...
Continue reading...→A very dear friend was fluent in Russian; he spoke the language, wrote it, read it, and could rhyme off a long list of Russian authors and composers, all of whom he had read and studied and from which he could either quote passages or recall performance details of their works. It … Read more...
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