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I thought long and hard......but I had to write it...true ? The joys of traveling alone...u can do what you want when you want . Eg. Man: what would you like to do tod...

Goodbye my lover....... goodbye my friend. You have been the one for me....

A Tiny EventIt was happened on a rainy day . I took a subway with my long umbrella. The travel needed one hour to go, so I wanted doing something to kill the...

In to the wildI have been in the wild for some days. Ocean on one side but acres and acres of thick forestry all around. My temporary abode. https:...

travelA story I wrote today. A molosce was clinging to a rock at low tide when a seagull came down. "oh don,t eat me seagull i,m alone but if your hung...

Sinking Of RMS Titanic In Real TimeApril 14 / 15, 1912. Abraham Lincoln was shot the night of April 14 & died the morning of the 15th, 1865 - Exactly 47 years prior to the sinki...

Chinatown in Kansas CityI was in Kansas City last week. My second trip there. Both times not with Art but a fellow Malaysian girlfriend, PL. I left all the decision makin...

Planning a vacation...I'm planning a vacation for sometime in April to see my brother in Dayton, Ohio. If I do the scenic route and go by car, part of me says catch a few...

I chased an ambulance tonight...I'm not an accident attorney nor do I play one in a TV series! On the way home I was in the outside lane behind someone slow to start away from a red...

Eleven places I would like to visit in the future!Once this whole pandemic is over, I would like to travel again. Jump on a flight somewhere for a week or two. While we have been in lockdown, I have w...

Today NASA landed a rover on the surface of MarsHere was what was a live feed of the event;...

time travel ...we all experience some form of time travel , no matter where we are on the planet ,it can be summer in one country and winter in another ,the same app...

Already thinking about my next travel adventure.I know it might be a while before we are allowed to travel abroad again, but that has not stopped me from thinking about my next trip. At this moment,...

Solo-trekking in China - Longsheng Titian (Rice terraces) - (3)So up to the very peak then down then up. And again. Going down sideways, right foot first, going up by hopping off the right foot. Slow, but I made...

Solo-trekking in China - Longsheng Titian (Rice terraces) - (2)The two children continued pulling hair and biting scratching over and around the fire, whilst I became aware of something going on between the 'guide...

Solo-trekking in China - Longsheng Titian (Rice terraces) - (1)2012 I returned to Guilin, planning to go trekking for 3 days in the Longsheng rice terraces. By bus perhaps two hours to the park entrance. I left m...

After almost 4 months, the new US Passport arrived today.Adventures. Once again. Once more. Almost gave up. So very unlike me. If all goes well, the new ones will be of dual citizenship. Muito obrigado....

Big 10 inches for you ladiesYeah ladies. If you come to NJ tomorrow you're going to get it. What ? We're expecting a noreastern storm. 10 inches of snow expected. S...

C M E..{ Summerville..tag.} $cience x illumination Infinite Rider on the big Dogma / Nesmith ..Marquee moon./ . television. Staring at the sun./ TV on the radio. ....

A diversion - UlaanbaatarA new student today, my first ever from Mongolia, a software developer for a Paypal-like product dealing in USD-AUD-MNT (Mongolian tögrög) first time...

Today is Double-nine day in China - Chongyang jieThe Double Ninth Festival, 9th day of the 9th lunar month is also known as Chongyang Festival or Lao ren jie or in our parlance as the Senior Citizens...

My experience of EnglandYou cannot criticise this - it is what I recall, my experience We flew over the north pole, from LA to London, I could see the distant ice in the d...

pH [ potential hydrogenTag.}...mene...mene..tekel..... .. writing on the wall... In honor of the 130th year since publication... 1890..the ] gift...) Strong radio net.©...

These days, visiting the PRC---NOT!...Spent a fair amount of time there almost three decades ago,....both of us staying mostly in hostels, backpacks on, using public transport, (including the Wuhan-Shanghai cruise, before closing of the gorgeous g...

Sandy or Snowy?...Venezuela is definitely a land of contrasts... A land blessed in every way... "Médanos de Coro" in the state of Falcón... Our own mini "Sahara"......

Catatumbo Lightning"The Catatumbo Lightning in Venezuela has captured me from the first moment I set foot in Ologa, the fishing village in the heart of Lake Maracaibo. W...

"The Most Beautiful Place I've Been""This is the most amazing view I've ever had"... "It's so beautiful that it's kind of difficult to explain with words"... "It's a bit tricky to get...

"One of the Caribbean’s best-kept secrets""One of the Caribbean’s best-kept secrets. Off the coast of Venezuela the small group of islands offers one of the clearest waters you’ve ever seen."...

La Tortuga Island"La Tortuga Island (in Spanish: Isla La Tortuga; "La Tortuga" means "the turtle") is an uninhabited island of Venezuela, the largest in the Federal De...

Visiting Old ______I was born in New York and wondered what it would be like to visit Old York. I'm thinking, if there's a New York, they're must be an Old York... kinda...

New Vacation hot spot - CHAZAmerica's newest vacation hot spot has everything you ever wanted....And it's FREE !!!!!...

One thing i'm learning in this crisis - be generous with yourselfSo the broccolini is $3 a bunch? You want it, buy it. The double brie is not on special, $64 per kilo? Buy it, what is $8 per 125gm when you are dead...

Communist consumer technology.When we were globe trotting in Russia, after the same in China, I and she who must be obeyed, via the trans Siberian train, just after the country dis...

Fresno [ mood muse..Tag: rhymes w/ buffalo. Buffalo gals / Springsteen .. Bethlehem steel / Grant Lee Buffalo Darkest darks, Lightest lights / white buffalo For wha...

Wuhan airport: Open your backpack he saidspread it on the floor he said why have you come to China he asked to study, said i a slight sneer of disbelief I saw of the white and green pi...

I have a dreamI had the dream again last night; the same dream I have had for countless nights; the dream that haunts my waking hours. I am on a packed rush hour...

Presidents, prime ministers and kings....and rats/cockroaches....... The next world centers of the pander demic may well be NYC, LA, NOLA and SF. Bluer than blue, all, and more and more unlivable, after decades of D...

Economics101 and pander demic commercial air travel..........Cheap guys like me are used to travelling to Portugal several times a year, for under USD 500, RT. And on some great carriers, just by booking ea...

New York Trip Preparations - Part 4As you might know by now, I am set to go to New York in less than two months. I have run into a small complication: The person I am supposed to visit,...

The International Civil Aviation Organisation on virus outbreakEmirates airline has asked staff to take voluntary paid and unpaid leave as the effects of the coronavirus across the world ramps up. The Dubai-bas...

Chancer, meet U.S.A (or U.S.A, meet Chancer)Well. A trip could be on the cards? I'm floating the idea out there. The idea appeals to me. The only state i've been to is Florida - which was a so-s...