Eight Tiny Reinyak: Audio Story
Posted on December 23, 2009 - Filed Under Holiday | Leave a Comment
A few years ago I took a night before the night before Christmas helicopter ride to where the spirits are high and the air is thin. This is a short excerpt from “Gone Astray” an audio book of my stories that will be released by PRX, the Public Radio Exchange on iTunes and on CD [...]
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Eight Tiny Reinyak [4:04m]: Cold Turkey in Heidelberg: Audio Story
Posted on December 17, 2009 - Filed Under Audio, Germany, Holiday | Leave a Comment
Heidelberg Castle ©Russell Johnson
What do you do when you are alone during a holiday, stuck in a place that doesn’t celebrate it? A few years ago I flew to Germany the day before Thanksgiving for a 1/2 hour business meeting. The meeting was a bust and alone, in a foul mood on a bone-chilling afternoon, [...]
Read More..>>Christmas in Fiji (with podcast)
Posted on December 15, 2007 - Filed Under Audio, Fiji, 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. [...]
Shopping for Valentines: The Kama Sutra, One Bite at a Time
Posted on February 14, 2007 - Filed Under Food & Wine, France, Holiday, Misc. | Leave a Comment
It is a mashup of Animal Crackers, Cracker Jacks, Willie Wonka and, uh, sex.
What ever happened to the idea of fun candy? As a kid I used to sit around with my pals biting the heads off of giraffes and the butts off hippos, giggling self-indulgently at my cleverness. Likewise with Cracker Jacks: one [...]
O Other Town of Bethlehem: Christmas on the Amazon
Posted on December 24, 2006 - Filed Under Video, Brazil, Cruises, Holiday, Photography, Places | Leave a Comment
A few years ago I flew from the real Bethlehem, in the Middle East, to Brazil’s Bethlehem, a town called Belem at the mouth of the Amazon where after some Christmas shopping at a funky, politically-incorrect market, I began a jungly yuletide cruise. Have a look at a Windows Media video and [...]
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Christmas on the Amazon [2:26m]: 
