Mar 15, 2026
A Journey from Paris to Miami on Air France
A travel note from Cochin to Miami, moving through cancellations, airports, and the calm of a familiar route home.
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.
Feb 15, 2026
A Wonderful Diverse World in Miami
A Miami evening of friendship, language, and human warmth beyond ordinary categories of nationality or identity.
Aug 15, 2025
The First Cuban Restaurant in Miami, with the Soul of 1960s Havana
A Miami food memory that connects Cuban exile, restaurants, nostalgia, and the soul of Havana.
Jul 15, 2025
Miami, Memory, and the Migration of Authoritarian Thinking. Miami, Memoria y la Migración del Pensamiento Autoritario
Miami, Memoria y la Migración del Pensamiento Autoritario. First in Spanish and then in English Soy australiano, pero mi vínculo con Miami, Florida, comenzó durante mis estudios de medicina y…
Jul 15, 2024
AN INTERACTION IN MIAMI.. CUBANS IN THE ISLAND OF CUBA ARE WELL AWARE OF HEALTH AND PHYSIOLOGY
I had gone to pick up my luggage at the Rimowa Store in Miami Design District. The attendant at the Valet parking station was a Cuban, who had arrived in…
Apr 15, 2024
THE BEAUTY OF MIAMI LIES IN ITS PEOPLE
THE BEAUTY OF MIAMI LIES IN ITS PEOPLE Miami may lack towering mountains or expansive rivers, but it boasts beautiful clouds and equally stunning people. Yesterday, at a Japanese Peruvian…
Apr 15, 2024
FLOWERS IN BLOOM AT THE FAIRCHILD TROPICAL GARDENS IN MIAMI FLORIDA IN MARCH APRIL 2024
Some flowers in bloom now at the Fairchild Tropical Gardens in Miami, Florida Poinsettia is a commercially important flowering plant (euphorbia) indigenous to Mexico and Central America Brazil Raintree, native…
Mar 15, 2024
HUMAN TOUCH WHERE YOU DO NOT EXPECT IT, EXCELLENT CARE AT THE OUTPATIENT RADIOLOGY CLINIC OF UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI
I had a fantastic encounter at the University of Miami Outpatient Radiology clinic, an experience that one could describe as truly exceptional in a medical setting! As part of my…
Jan 15, 2024
WELCOME TO MIAMI
WELCOME TO MIAMI When I am in the USA, I usually stay in Miami. I have always liked Miami, one of the main reasons being it is a Spanish speaking…
Mar 15, 2023
MIAMI TO HAVANA. SO CLOSE AND YET SO FAR AND DIVIDED
It is one thing to be in a polemic country as USA which is divided right through the middle .. 50% fascist leaning and 50% wanting a just society and…
Mar 15, 2023
43 HOURS FROM DOUBLE TREE HILTON KUALA LUMPUR TO MY FRIENDS HOME IN MIAMI FLORIDA USA. A STORY
It was bright and early when I appeared at the Executive Lounge and the Manager, Ms SS was waiting for me. Two promising things happened with breakfast. I have been…
Feb 15, 2023
A SLOW JOURNEY TO A JOYFUL DESTINATION. MIAMI TO KL VIA NEW YORK CITY AND TOKIO (AND JAKARTA)
Once you taste the benefits of higher levels of Frequent Flier Status, retaining it becomes a type of obsession. You begin to dream of impractical voyages and excuciating journeys and…
Jan 15, 2023
SHABBAT SHALOM FROM MIAMI BUT WITH A HEAVY HEART
As has been my custom for many years, on Friday Nights, regardless of where I am , Morocco, Malaysia or Miami, I would light candles and recite in Hebrew my…
Jan 15, 2023
THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY TO FLY FROM PARIS TO ANY WHERE, THIS TIME TO MIAMI, AIR FRANCE, WHAT ELSE ?
My journey began today at the AF Lounge at Terminal 2 E at Paris CDG Charles de Gaulle Airport. I was a little peckish but did not wish to spoil…
Jan 15, 2023
THE LONG BUT COMFORTABLE JOURNEY WITH OCCASIONAL STAIRS AT PARIS METRO FROM MIAMI TO QUIBERON
It was a good day to leave Miami. The food, the social isolation and the general dislike of Cubans vs Others, occasionally bordering on hatred was weighing upon me. Got…
Nov 15, 2022
SUNSET, ROYAL PALM, THUNDER AND CHANGO. ALL IN MIAMI IN THE EVERGLADES NATIONAL PARK
This is an ancient land and there are people living here whose ancestors had inhabited and fought the invaders who had come from Spain. Cuba was colonized first and the…
Nov 15, 2022
I AM GLAD I HAVE MIAMI IN BETWEEN MY TRAVELS .. always grateful to the NATIVE INDIANS
I just arrived back in Miami from South East Asia .. the drastic change (food and people ) is softened by the fact that Miami is as tropical spot, one…
Nov 15, 2022
GASTRONOMIC JOURNEY FROM COCHIN TO MIAMI IN 36 HOURS .. SPECIAL THANKS TO TRAVANCORE COURT HOTEL IN COCHIN AND QATAR AIRWAYS
I had an intense day in Cochin being with old and new friends both in Ernakulam and Mattancherry. and it was time to leave Cochin to get back to this…