Travels

Old man, prostrate underneath bridge, why is your daughter leashed and forced to hold out your hat for money?  What happened, what is your story?  She can't be more than five and already, you have taught her how to stand on her head and do backflips.  Will she

One afternoon in Nanning, I walked through a winding mud-spattered street, south of the stream on Chaoyang Lu (Street), ogling the generous display of ingredients and dishes.

Beijing is grand in the largest of ways and humble in the smallest of ways.  Like an aging actress who refuses to bow out, the city hovers between desperate modernity and the crass awkward displays of a bumbling sycophant.

I am beginning to love this life. I am stuffing my face with Doritos and will proceed to gobble down a Dominos pizza -- all with the advice from Ink that I'll be losing weight on the road anyways.

Feels like I'm in limbo – not really living in NY any longer but not in any way am on the road yet.

10 days to go before I step on that plane.  Still have to pack, make lists, sell off furniture and hyperventilate.  But it'll be ok.