“Yeah, those rumors were false,” Lydia said. “But that’s part of the problem, no one can tell when something will pan out or not,” Gary added. As I believed the last opportunity to escape had slipped away, I grew angry, nervous, and frustrated looking for any stray strands of grass to grab, getting us outContinue reading “The Jaguar’s Bloodthirsty Smile***”
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Hà Nội Photo Fair 2025
Andy Solomon’s Continuum spans 30 years as he reported and then befriended on areas where he’d traveled. He returned many years later, returning copies to them decades later. https://travelasianow.net/andy-soloman-photographer-love-story-vietnam/ Dispatches From the Wet Collodion Frontline: “Day Dreams“, “Itinerant Vendors”, “Wanted” and Boris Zuliani’s newest “Mobile Photography” all part of his Timeless Reflections from his yearsContinue reading “Hà Nội Photo Fair 2025”
Project Photo Return – Huế, Vietnam 2015
Living in an Instant EVERYTHING world, we take for granted how the processes and thrill of taking and receiving photos, especially when your vision becomes reality as you’d imagined or seen in your mind’s eye. It’s hard for many today to imagine how people have never seen themselves, often even rarely in mirrors. When IContinue reading “Project Photo Return – Huế, Vietnam 2015”
…Boy Loses Girl ~ Throwbacks Thailand – Vietnam 2014
On Monday, February 10, 2014, 21:05, Lanier Carson <nomadcarson@gmail.com> wrote: Claudia, WTF? I went to the bathroom and you and that other guy were GONE! I hope you made it alright. We were all pretty gOnE. It was great meeting you, the first of two women I met within the day who knew Spanish, howContinue reading “…Boy Loses Girl ~ Throwbacks Thailand – Vietnam 2014”
Letters From The Road – Linhai, China – Sept. 2016
I’ve been in contact with The Knat a few times since April, but never anything substantive. Great to hear and chat with Bella, moving in with Claudia and working/studying like a Jamaican. I wonder where she gets that from? Things are actually going a little better than I’d anticipated, here in Linhai. Of course theseContinue reading “Letters From The Road – Linhai, China – Sept. 2016”
Anjali Farms Summer 2025 and Memories Galore
Get there! https://www.anjalifarm.com/about Little Bro, Emmett, with his lovely and talented wife, Lini and family offer clean, green, alternatives for summer fun. Vermont isn’t just for hermits! Chilling rivers, outstanding hiking, deep historical and cultural yaddi, yaddi, yaaaaaaas! Get there! You won’t regret it! https://icdt.osu.edu/abundance-future-better-you-think
Do Epic Shiiiiiiiiiit Hits 350
Challenging you to join me on this journey of a life of service, sharing time, knowledge and laughs, celebrating those who have sacrificed for us to be here as well as those who have made this life better in any way, Head Checks, Fun Shiiiits, International Sounds from every continent. Yes, the challenge is toContinue reading “Do Epic Shiiiiiiiiiit Hits 350”
Determination Meets His Goals Huế, Vietnam July 6, 2007
Sometimes things happen just the way they’re supposed to. Saigon, or Ho Chin Minh City, is a bustling, noisy, and very dirty place. If you can judge a place by its dogs, which Bri thought for sure she saw several skinned and beheaded ones were being loaded onto a cart outside a restaurant, Saigon’s inContinue reading “Determination Meets His Goals Huế, Vietnam July 6, 2007”
Biking Hangzhou #14 Scholars’ Bike Club July 2016
Jackson, one of my 100 Scholars that first year in China, invited me to join their ride one month before leaving school. I was honored to be asked by one of my most amazing Scholars to join them. I’d warned him, “even though I bike to work most days and Mr. Aton tried killing meContinue reading “Biking Hangzhou #14 Scholars’ Bike Club July 2016”
Christchurch 2011 ~ Post Earthquakes
Debbie Downers Dissin’ Down Under’s Neighbors OK, for all those bad-mouthing Chch, please get a map, TALK to anyone who actually LIVES here and learn that it is not a depressing, “Oh, woe is me,” city. For those looking for night life there Club 22 up on Papanui, the left just before The Phoenix. LowerContinue reading “Christchurch 2011 ~ Post Earthquakes”