The social context for our time in Bhimavaram with the Byrraju Foundation is important: two western Professors traveling to rural Andhra Pradesh are VIPs. We…
Novelists have long known that time travel is easy: Take a look—a sharp, tell-yourself-no-lies look—then shut your eyes. Better yet, go away. Return with open…
Previous experience has taught us: India is a hot and dry country. Hot, meaning steamy tropics or blazing desert in many regions. Dry, meaning without…
How do we get ready for India? Train! How do we train? By Amtrak. From Portland to Vancouver, BC. What makes the Cascades line such effective…
In the last three weeks we’ve logged 1300 kilometers in long haul Turkish buses. While it isn’t as luxurious as Argentina’s, the Turkish bus system…
Finnegan and Anastasia had rented a donkey, loaded it with two paniers, and gone to visit Anastasia’s grandmother, the matriarch of the Demetriades. This was…
There is no sign. No conventional marking or advertising. The hours are not posted. It is like Brigadoon in this way: part of the magic…
Pizza. You have an image, don’t you? I write the word and a picture appears in your mind. Perhaps it is the family favorite from…
I first really noticed it on the prow of our ferry, the Kalliste, during our dawn docking in the Corsican port of Propriano. The sea…
If we have a transcendent experience at one cave, shouldn’t we expect a transcendent experience at the next? What if the next cave is a…
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