Home again home again |
jiggity jog, as my father always says.Back in the city, feeling good. Yesterday I walked around for the first time since coming back, and three different men in the street - not even homeless people ...
Posted by on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 06:20:00 GMT |
Ah, comfort. |
You know, I was all thinking I was going to go native, just stay in Africa, which is exhilarating and fantastic and unbelievable and beautiful and hard.
But hey, gosh, it turns out I really really lik...
Posted by on Wed, 14 Nov 2007 22:30:00 GMT |
Still in Tanzania |
Got back yesterday from two days spent in Eloui, a Maasai village up on this mountainside near Kenya. Mindbogglingly beautiful, and a way of life at once intimidatingly difficult and alluring.&n...
Posted by on Thu, 08 Nov 2007 00:18:00 GMT |
Arusha |
So after a night spent in a Maasai village - singing and dancing and hyenas, but no cow blood yet - I am on my own in the town of Arusha for a day. I hemmed and hawed all morning about coming in...
Posted by on Sat, 03 Nov 2007 05:54:00 GMT |
Into the black. |
So I'm off to Tanzania now. Don't suppose I'll be much in contact for the next two weeks, so if anything wonderful or terrible happens... well, we'll all just have to wait to hear.
Everyone have...
Posted by on Sun, 28 Oct 2007 23:06:00 GMT |
Back in Kiev.... |
I just spent the day clothes shopping in Kiev. That is something I never thought I would have occasion to say.
Posted by on Sat, 27 Oct 2007 08:13:00 GMT |
Western Ukraine |
I can't write long, as I am on my host's computer, having kicked his new bride off. But I am here in Kolimiya, and all is well. Eating like a king, thanks to Vitaly the B&B owner's mot...
Posted by on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 01:10:00 GMT |
Feeling better, in an obscurely melancholic, Eastern European way. |
Ate goulash. Saw big statues and lovely autumnal parks. Watched the ballet. Feeling much more on top of things, though Cyrillic continues on mysterious. And tonight I ride on a...
Posted by on Sun, 21 Oct 2007 01:59:00 GMT |
The Cyrillic Starvation Diet |
I was on the plane 10 hours, got off starving. Can't find a restaurant anywhere, at least one I'm willing to go into alone. I have not been tempted to go into a McDonald's in more than 10 ...
Posted by on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:26:00 GMT |
Well, ladies and germs... |
... I am off on the big trip. Ukraine, Tanzania and Japan. The tickets are bought, the shots are had, the bags are packed (okay, that's a lie.) And I'm going.And I'm not bringing my computer.I will...
Posted by on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 04:41:00 GMT |
