January 2012
1 post
After months of wavering, east coaster defects to...
Run, don’t walk to Hog Island Oyster Company and order the Manila Clam Chowder.
June 2010
14 posts
Japan is blowing me away.
Today, after being turned away at the check-in counter for China Airlines at Taoyuan airport in Taiwan for my flight to Seoul because my passport backing broke off from my visa pages, I mentally resigned myself to three more weeks of Shin Yeh and beef noodles. It wouldn’t have been that hard, except for my trip to Japan…
After being issued an emergency passport in about 3 hours (!),...
I got electrocuted again. It’s like a rite of passage for me when I travel.
“Something of this journey between the near and the far goes on in every life. Sometimes an old photograph, an old friend, an old letter will remind you that you are not who you once were, for the person who dwelt among them, valued this, chose that, wrote this, no longer exists. Without noticing it you have traversed a great distance; the strange has become familiar and the familiar, if not...
“It’s a sailor town, at least it used to be. The sailor spirit still lives on within the people there and so no one sticks around for very long. There are so many harbors to sail into in this world. And by harbors, I mean harbors.”
