Southeast/Southwest: The Journal 2002-2003
11/25/02Austin to Los Angeles,
November 2002
golden ages of walking... 'some sort of pilgrimage'... saying goodbye (ga'awn)... 'i want to teach children or save hollywood'... welcome to the continuum.
12/01/02Jakarta to San Francisco,
8-12 November 2001
spiralling to earth... 'in half a second, it's gone'... dollars and english (buying the sacred cow)...
'what about america now?'
12/08/02San Francisco to the Hopi Reservation,
13-14 November 2001
best coffee in california... history of borax... GAQs (great anasazi questions)... 'faith-seeking days'.
12/22/02Hopi to Holbrook,
15-17 November 2001
'all hopis lost' (kachina ka-ching!)... el morro & inscription rock... 'sleep in a wigwam!'
12/29/02The Winslow, Arizona Christmas Parade,
17 November 2001
navajo tacos... 'you're worth waiting for'...
eve's secret anorexia... and another fallen woman.
01/06/03The Winslow Christmas Parade, Part II,
17 November 2001
'a tribe of many feathers'... the car bashing pit... 'endless infertile terrain'... the meaning of antiques?
01/14/03The Leonid Meteor Shower:
Near Winslow, Arizona,
18 November 2001
'grapeshot of light'... milton's astronomy...
hitchhiking hopi... the two smartest people i know... ˇagainst thanksgiving!
01/20/03Laos Redux,
19-20 October 2001
in louang prabang... 'this darkness light'...
hunger as clarity, solitude as travel...
'quiet, mortal communion with the world'.
02/03/03Cambodia Redux:
Bangkok to Siem Reap to Phnom Penh,
20-26 October 2001
dropping angkor, or, who owns the stones?...
'the tyranny of money'... lijsa (love in the ruins)...
by speedboat to phnom penh... 'a mobility of souls'.
02/11/03Sihanoukville, Cambodia,
27-30 October 2001
'holiday in cambodia'... eve keeps bringing it...
'the taste of boredom'...the menace of guidebooks.
02/18/03Sihanoukville to Trat to Bangkok,
30-31 October 2001
'travel bug' redefined... the great bangkok airport halloween hoax... 'resilience is the finest quality'... ˇagainst apologies!
02/27/03Layover: The World's Deadliest Disease
'the lonely mind hatches terrible fantasies'.
03/11/03Jakarta, November 2001
'yankees go home'... running with the expats...
'this is not the door' (a bait & switch).
03/20/03Eulogy: Amanda Davis, 1971-2003
diver
03/31/03San Francisco Redux,
November-December 2001
'fresh wind, bright sky'... mocha at caffe trieste...
across the US by car... 'headlong & half-blind miles'.

Southeast/Southwest: The Dispatches, Southeast Asia 2001
9/11/01Jakarta #1
traffic, vermin, street food, and being bule.
9/12/01Jakarta #2
papuan tribal dancing & indonesian disco...
four roses on the rocks...woolf's
the waves.
9/25/01Lombok
island life... getting there is 1/2 the un-fun... my 1st snorkel & 1st mandi... how to shop indonesian.
10/17/01Laos
'i go where i am led'... rafting downriver & trekking up mountains... 'a vital, ravaged, sad, livid place'...
by bus to louang prabang.
11/04/01Cambodia
phnom penh... killing fields & tuol sleng...
'what to do with the dead?'... by plane to angkor...
'same same but different'.