Jul 15, 2025
My Way of Travel
A personal reflection on travel as a life priority, offered as one person’s path rather than advice for everyone.
Stories
Field notes from the road
Medicine, culture, travel, food, healing, and human stories from my archive. Start with a trail, search for a memory, or move by year.
Roads, meals, clinics, and human encounters.Archive into inquiry
These field notes are not only memory. They are the ground from which my new field inquiries begin.
The current inquiry follows one trail through the archive: food culture, metabolic health, Indigenous knowledge, and Suriname.
Mar 15, 2024
A WONDERFUL NOWRUZ TO ALL FRIENDS AND LOVERS
A WONDERFUL NOWRUZ TO ALL MY FRIENDS WHEREVER YOU ARE, WHETHER YOU ARE IRANIAN OR NOT.. SPRING IS BEING PROMISED BY UNCLE PIRUZ All lovers of Iranian cinema would be…
Jan 15, 2023
ALVARO MUTIS, THE TRAMP STEAMER’S LAST PORT OF CALL, MAQROLL EL GAVIERO JUDIO, SOY YO
I am writing this at a largely faded but glorious suite of a hotel built in 1914 in the French Art Nouveaux style in the city of Tunis which once…
Dec 15, 2022
TRAVEL GUIDES/COMPANION NEEDED FOR THE FOLLOWING CITIES .. 2023
Anytime I see a List of places to visit in 2023 or something similar, I know those are the places to avoid. Yahoo Lists are hopeless written by people who…
Sep 15, 2018
ISRAEL : A LOVE STORY
I have been lucky to visit Israel three times so far in 2018 and more importantly to be present there on 1 Tishrei 5779..the beginning of the Jewish New Year.…
Jul 15, 2018
SHABBAT SHALOM ON POYA DAY IN SRI LANKA
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May 15, 2013
THE AGELESS MAN OF KUALA TRENGGANU
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE THE AGELESS MAN OF KUALA TRENGGANU For those who hide behind their identities and the exteriors of themselves and their skin as…
Mar 15, 2013
EUROPEAN AUSSIE TOURISTS SEEN AS BEGGARS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE EUROPEAN/AMERICAN/AUSTRALIAN TOURISTS TO ASIA SEEN AS BEGGARS Last year an astonishing one billion (nearly one out six humans on this planet) took…