Chris had me as his guest on the Amateur Traveler, we talked about… Hawaii. Lanai and Molokai, specifically and I don’t sound like TOO much of an idiot. Have a listen.
Amateur Traveler Episode 206 – Travel to Molokai and Lanai in Hawaii
I’m delighted to tell you that my audio piece about ukulele diplomacy is up at World Hum. And the uke you hear in the background? That’s me. Go here to listen.… continued…
Several years ago at a book sale in a small and pretty town in Austria, I bought a stack of Baedeker’s red guidebooks. I have four of these fragile, red cloth bound little volumes. I also bought a Flaxman Hand-Book of English and German Conversation. The Flaxman’s is from 1907, the Baedeker’s are also from the early 1900s. I think they all belonged to the same person, a Doktor Ernst Fuschig of Scharding am Inn, a town near the current border between Austria and Germany — the Doktor’s name is rubber stamped in slightly smeared ink inside the cover of each book save the phrase book — that appears to have spent a bit of time at an antique book store in Vienna, Franz Malota on the Wiednerhaupstrasse in the fourth district.… continued…
Camp Long is an uncrowded park off 35th in West Seattle. It’s got trails that wind through tall trees, some attractive ponds, a handful of cabins, a climbing wall, a very cool WPA era visitor’s center, and a big meadow for events. I was in an imaginative state of mind while walking through there with my pal B, there was something about the mossy rocks and bright green color of the water, something about the magical early fall light, that made me feel like we were walking around inside a Miyazake animation.… continued…
Glacier National Park knocks the breath right out of you and replaces it with sheer wonder.… continued…
