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• The final chapter

  Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

  Some leave their heart in San Francisco. In The Philippines, I abandoned my bike in San Francisco. It’s about as far away from cack hole Manilla, as you can fly, ferry, and ride, in a few days visit.
  I had no preconceived ideas about the Philippines beyond the usual stereotypes. The reality of some of the […]

• East and West of the MEKONG… Thailand and Laos

  Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

  Fullmoon parties, pool parties, foam parties, black moon and half moon parties, reggae parties….anyone would think Koh Phangan in Thailand had something to do with parties.  They have a beach party on the fullmoon each month, that is indeed a bit of an international phenomena, and at the same time, same, same.

  By coincidence, […]

• w.w.double you > DUBAI.

  Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

  wwdouble you DUBAI.

  It’s a phenomenon of the times. It’s extraordinary in the extremes of all that is good, and all that is bad.

  It’s Dubai, or more accurately, it’s the UAE.  40C to 50C of camel depressing desert, which back in the ‘60s, hosted a few Arabs in boats, when up from the depths […]

• DRYCLEANING THE IRON CURTAIN, with Greece stains, mit Deutchland, a Turkey, and and Ostricha.

  Saturday, August 29th, 2009

   
  So, what else can you find in the world, since the Berlin wall came down?
  They say you can island hop from Greece to Turkey. So I caught the ferry from Mykonos to Samos, a Greek island, just 3k from Turkey. The Greeks have virtual ocean liners for ferries, most ‘70’s relics, from days before $50 […]

• WESTERN EUROPE…Liberte, Egalite and Fraternite?

  Friday, July 31st, 2009

   I could be hanging around auditioning for a part in the remake of a SOUND OF MUSIC, lying here in grassy fields below the Alps, but unless Julie Andrews is replaced by a singing porn star,  and unless I get back on track, the hills will likely never be alive with the sound […]

• Ireland

  Friday, June 26th, 2009

  The LUCK OF THE IRISH …is contagious

  The ferry that takes you from Wales to Ireland is kind of like a giant cafeteria bedeck with flatscreens and lower decks. All my preconceived ideas about the ferocioty of the Fastnet killing Irish sea, were laid to waste as the 3 hour crossing could have been across a […]

• ENGLAND…an’ me mota.

  Monday, June 8th, 2009

  ‘God save the Queen, Its a fascist regime’
  S. Vicious.
  The Sex Pistols 1975

  ‘Evening Sar…a, copy of the Daily Tele by any chance?’, twipped the ever so sweet, British Airways hostess, as I settled into a part of the jumbo I hadn’t paid for.  A tip here. Always be the last one onboard, and grab […]

• News of New York and Newport…

  Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

  The Disunited States of America

  I’ve wondered, once personally settling on the analogy that LA is the mouth piece of America,  what then, is the equivalent body part for New York?
  Is it the brains, or the sphincter? Maybe it’s the pineal, but with a bad blockage? I ain’t figured it. New Yorkers see it, […]

• Viva Colombia, Peru, Bolivia and Mexico…. from the Caribbean to the Andes, from cockpit, to handlebars.

  Thursday, May 7th, 2009

  From shipwreck, to Lama head-on….from Caribbean, to Andes, from yachts to bikes. The is a lot more to the Americas, than America. I take up, where I left off, washed up in Cartegena, Colombia.
  Cafe Havana. For me, that’s how Cartegena began, and, how Cartegena ended.  Bookmarks of character.
  After the gruelling negotiations and […]

• WASHED UP IN COLUMBIA.. chapta 5

  Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

  I’ve never been to South America before. Most people enter a new country through an airport ramp.
  I swam.
  Infact I almost made a habit of it.
  My tales of the happy shiny San

  Blas, are those below, but with some Laurence of Arabia script writing, let’s shift the end of this story to the beginning. Unlike […]