Don't get me wrong. Sacramento is a lovely place, particularly for those with a fondness for methamphetamines. For the meth-addled, Sacramento had conveniently placed a Greyhound bus station just yard...
No one who claims this to be a small world has ever flown across the Pacific.
Look for a wave shaped like an A. . Hmm. I saw and and . I saw the alphabet and the alphabet. I saw . I saw no . Finally I gave up, and chose the next wave that would have me, which turned out to...
The gift of sobriety is clarity and a sense of connection - and travel only enhances that.
Like many highly educated people, I didn't have much in the way of actual skills.
Like many air travelers, I am aware that airplanes fly aided by capricious fairies and invisible strings.
For what is life, a good life, but the accumulation of small pleasures?
It is often said that Americans have no sense of history. Ask a college student who Jimmy Carter was and they will likely reply that he was a general in the Civil War, which occurred in 1492, when Ame...
Seriously. There were three of them, all roughly in their thirties, and they spent their time traveling the world, putting together documentaries about the earth’s wonders. The on-screen talent, I lea...
There will be no fucking sunsets in the pages that follow.
If there is one indelible image from the Battle of Tarawa, it is a photo of dozens of dead Marines bobbing in the shallows just off what was called Red Beach II. I often launched my windsurfer from Re...
If you’re looking to see what the government of Kiribati finally decides to do, when do they wave the flag and say the last good-bye, I’m afraid I can’t help you. But look around, follow the news, Goo...
I too was very busy. Thinking. I had decided to write a novel. It would be a big book, Tolstoyan in scale, Joycean in its ambition, Shakespearean in its lyricism. Twenty years hence, the book would be...
I'm off to an island nation where formal wear consists of a leaf tired around a penis.
Nevertheless, while I may not have completely understood what Holy Communion was all about, Catholicism did allow me to see the nuances in cannibalism. Eating the flesh of another human being, I under...
Personally I regard idling as a virtue, but civilized society holds otherwise.
Christopher Hitchens once said that he drinks because it makes other people less boring.
Bwenawa brought my attention to two wooden planks raised about four feet above the ground. On the ledges were lagoon fish sliced open and lying in the sun, the carcasses just visible through an envelo...
1989 played out a little differently in China, of course. When thousands of students converged upon Tiananmen Square in Beijing to demand a little democracy--Hey hey, hey ho, Maosim has got to go--the...
The thunder and bombast of what passes for news programming today--Motto: All terror, all the time
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