Jack Fisher

A woman combed her thigh length tresses on the flat roof of her house, while baboons clambered over her walls.  Below, young men bicycled through the narrow warrens of streets and looked up just as she vanishes towards the shadows.

I'm with India. The cliches are visible and it's hella disorienting. Did I write 'hella'? I must be going crazy. No 'Delhi belly' yet, but viruses and nasty buggers are all around – infections galore.  It's been four days since I&

Frankly, I've been to lots of 'poor countries' and while each situation demands a level of complexity that I can't give, how Egypt is doesn't excuse it's crappiness from my book because of it's poverty (see Asia).

You know what I get most angry about? When my anger is at peak?  When I realize that the world has too much, way too much, hypocrisy and arrogance. Arrogance -- the ignorance brought on by ego. Hypocrisy – the failure of an arrogant ego. Both are rooted in an evil overcompensation

6 or 7 Nubian men were dancing around a crackling radio.  Another felucca moored next to ours, and a woman peeped her head out and darted back inside the cabin when she saw me and the other passengers on our boat. She was naked.  A couple of Nubian men walked on the boat and then strolled back off.

If I hear another "Hey Japan!" shouted at me I'm going to knock someone out.  It's ok when a couple of people do it, but when kids on the streets start yelling "Hey Japan! Korea?" at me, and keep on shouting it at me when I say, "No, Vietnam" or "No, America" I'm really going to go crazy.