Knowing, I think, that I’d never be able to keep up a full journal, I decided to kill two birds with one stone: I would write letters and keep carbon copies of them in the journal.
Rereading a Thirty-Five-Year-Old Letter
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Travel
Around the World in 1984
Thirty-five years ago today, I embarked a trip around the world.
Petra, Day 1
I first encountered “Petra” as a college student, when I read Melville’s short story, “Bartleby, the Scrivener.” The story’s narrator makes reference to it when he goes to his law offices one weekend and discovers that his inscrutable scrivener Bartleby has been...
Africa Journal (II) – Amboseli
On our second day in Africa, we went to Wilson Airport in Nairobi to catch a Safarilink propeller plane to Amboseli National Park, where we stayed at the Amboseli Serena Safari Lodge. Amboseli is 2 degrees 40 ' south of the equator, so we were visiting during the...
Wildlife Near Where We Slept
At the Serena Lodge in Amboseli, Kenya, there were monkeys with bright turquoise balls roaming around ... At the Kichwa Tembo Tented Camp in the Masai Mara, Kenya, there were warthogs nosing around outside our tent ... ... and Harry the Hyrax in the woods raising a...
Africa Journal (I) – The Norfolk
One of the wonderful things about living in Abu Dhabi is its relatively proximity to places that are pretty remote if you’re living in New York. We’ve been lucky enough to do quite a bit of traveling in the past few months. My older son went to Ephesus in Turkey with...
Out from Under
On my last day in Australia, I did indeed leave Canberra behind for a jaunt down to the Tidbinbilla National Park in search of marsupials in the wild. On the way there, I made a brief stop outside the Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex ... where NASA is...
Down Under
When I first heard about the conference on cosmopolitanism being held by the Island Southeast Asia Centre (ISEAC) at Australia National University in Canberra. I jumped at the chance to add Australia to my list of continents visited. Only Antarctica remains,...