My Close Encounter With Obama in Hawaii By Pico Iyer
Posted on November 5, 2008 - Filed Under Culture, Misc. | Leave a Comment
One of the worlds most insightful and sensitive travel writers comments on his encounter with Barack Obama.
From Time Magazine
Rational Exuberance: The Optimistic Traveler
Posted on November 1, 2008 - Filed Under Culture, Misc. | Leave a Comment
REVISION: The elections are over and for the first time America has a president that represents all of America and will do so to the rest of the world. I was at an election night party last night where we all toasted with pride that we could now go anywhere in the world and be […]
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Posted on February 8, 2008 - Filed Under Misc. | Leave a Comment
R.Johnson Veterans Day Shrine - London (Inset enlarged from frame)
I have never been very much for boxy things: Humvees, large suitcases, Wagnerian contraltos. I own two boxy cameras, both antiques: a 1950s Brownie movie camera and a vintage Crown Graphic, a bulky machine with bellows once favored by cigar chomping, flashbulb-popping guys who sat at […]
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 […]
Weighty Matter
Posted on July 28, 2007 - Filed Under Taiwan, Tech & Science, Photography, Misc. | Leave a Comment
Went to the 87th floor of Taipei 101, the world’s tallest building, and saw this little item. Would hate to have it land on my toe as it weights 730 tons. This damper weight, designed the keep the 1,667 foot tower from swinging too far in a storm or earthquake, is said to […]
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