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.The current inquiry follows one trail through the archive: food culture, metabolic health, Indigenous knowledge, and Suriname.
I have been thinking of Leticia on the Colombian Amazon, bordering with Tabatinga in Brasil as well as across the stream from Santa Rosa in Peru. I really want to…
Meet me in the evening of this coming Thursday at Parque Santa Lucia in Merida, Yucatan, said the message from my brother Yitzhak who lives in Portland, Oregon, USA. I…
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I usually travel alone but occasionally do share it with someone. I have a brother who lives in USA and we get to travel occasionally and in fact it was…
It is 31 July 2019 and I recollect pleasantly what a wonderful month of travel it has been for me Began the month of July in La Havana being well…
Many a travel writer would like to offer the differences in attitudes and behaviour of a tourist in comparison to a traveller and there are lists of differences that one…
Kerala follows me around ...? I do not travel to INDIA but paradoxically enough once every two months, Manolo the driver from Bristows Bungalow, the only hotel facing the ocean…
DAY 1 Brussels European Quartier Brussels Airport Diamond Lounge at Terminal A To Madrid on Iberia Rush to catch the connecting flight to London Comfortable ride to London Chaos at…
I am grateful whoever the person was, for introducing me to Moritz Thomsen, a beautiful soul, a peace corps volunteer in the 1960s, trying hard to make the life of…
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I am a Frequent Traveller and my world is Latin America, North America, Europe, Israel and Asia. Whenever I find a hotel or staff, I become attached to them, and…
Japanese nationals seem to be the luckiest ones, having far more countries to visit without bothering with VISA.. The second one is also no surprise, Singapore, which allows almost every…
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Today is 29th July 2018 and I am in Bentota, Sri Lanka. This month has been less than auspicious for travel with some misplaced trust and loss of innocence. August…
A tourist may arrive at a destination or a place, perhaps because of a PUSH factor in their life, failed romance or marriage; workplace, with difficulties with co workers or…
0 0 1 983 5608 Carl T. Curtis Health and Education 46 13 6578 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE THE PHYSICIAN ANTHROPOLOGIST TRAVEL AGENT I had…
0 0 1 420 2394 Carl T. Curtis Health and Education 19 5 2809 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE WHY FRIENDLINESS/FRIENDS MATTER WHEN YOU ARE A…
When you are travelling, and often, you become aware of all the people responsible for your pleasure of travel. There are people who are obvious, such as Pilots who take…
