Tales from the Waiting Room: San Francisco and Bangkok
Posted on August 15, 2008 - Filed Under Health Travel, Audio, Thailand | Leave a Comment
Last month I visited doctors twice: in San Francisco to have a spot of sun damage checked, and in Bangkok for a physical. As Mrs. Kuchenbecker, my sixth grade teacher said, “Let us compare und contrast.”
SAN FRANCISCO
I make an appointment, the doctor will see me in about a month. I show up on time, […]
Christmas in Fiji (with podcast)
Posted on December 15, 2007 - Filed Under Fiji, Audio, Holiday | Leave a Comment
Choirs, Coups and Long Canoes
Where do you go to find a spirited Christmas celebration? Give me Fiji any day. As the temperature teases the freezing tick on the thermometer and our two cats, Max and Moritz stalk the house looking for non-existent pools of light, my mind drifts on the trade winds to Fiji sunshine. […]
On Foot in London
Posted on December 6, 2007 - Filed Under London, Audio | Leave a Comment
As a Monty Python fan, London in my minds eye is a city of silly walks: eccentric lopes, tortured tangos and Teutonic goose steps. It is really quite opposite that, in fact. That’s why the Pythons were funny. Last week in London, Pat and I settled into an apartment off Fleet Street and toured […]
Read More..>>Democracy and Debauchery
Posted on December 6, 2007 - Filed Under News, Audio, Travel Biz, Culture, Misc. | Leave a Comment
Oh, we Americans are a wild and crazy bunch: toiling hard and productively, spreading democracy by day…partying hard by night. Or is it partying day and night? According to a new report on travel trends, we Yanks are binge drinking, G-string snapping “debaucherists,” longing for the eternal spring break.
This report, put out by the […]
Dancing With Extraterrestrials at Hat Creek
Posted on October 12, 2007 - Filed Under Audio, California, Tech & Science | Leave a Comment
Artist’s Illustration, Allen Telescope Array - Issac Gary
There are events from your early childhood that stick with you. My earliest memory was when at age four my mother, in a rage, tossed out most of my toys, which I had cast randomly about the house, an act that immediately erased any Oedipal urges.
The second was […]
