I am in here.
Much of the Arab world, that which cares enough to send the very best, anyway, seems to have decided that it either has nothing to live for, or that, since it can’t be the most powerful civilization in the world, nobody else can either. Anyway… Gail pointed me to this… Crossing the Rubicon2: Kisses and … Continue reading The Arab attitude
Got in to Madrid just now, home of fancy modern hotels with free ethernet. Spent a few days after St. Jean-de-Luz (from where I last posted, though I neglected, I think, to say that) in the Picos de Europa area, a huge mountainous national park in central northern Spain, and today we spent yet again … Continue reading Back to civilization
Or maybe I could disappear in time. Our knowledge of the laws of physics doesn’t yet allow for this literally, but there are ways that are almost as good. Joining a dig – looking up that old friend from high school that became a Classics professor, perhaps. Sitting in the bottom of a muddy/dusty trench … Continue reading more travel
This is an island called Kerguelen. It’s a French possession, with a scientific base established on it – no town. It lies in the southern Indian Ocean, and is about as far from civilization as you can get, including the South Pole. The closes town of any sort is about 2,500 miles away. It’s so … Continue reading I need to get away
white pebble 