It’s Saturday. I’ve been fasting for over twenty-four hours. My last meal was back on Wednesday evening. However, my statement is truthfully a lie. Last night, for a final supper in Paris before heading back home for the holidays, I forced a small bowl of pulsed vegetable soup down my throat. I wasn’t hungry, but I knew I would have disappointed Madame Joffres by skipping out on my final Parisian dinner of the year. So, I went light and broke my fast—going all day Thursday into Friday, until an evening’s bowl of soup. Now today: Saturday afternoon. [View Full Entry]

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It is one thing to be by yourself. It is another to be together. It’s one thing to have only yourself to turn to. It’s entirely another to have others there with you. It is one; the loneliest number that could ever be. It is one multiplied by any number other than itself; friendship, companionship, support. Traveling can be extremely difficult, especially while on the solo track. You find yourself confounded by a deep-seated loneliness and you discover you have nobody, nothing—no idea of what to do, how to do it, and when you end up there, wherever there migh [View Full Entry]

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It’s as though someone is chiseling at your chest. After the work, the strain, the arduous momentum to bring yourself to the present moment of your journey—of all things!—now this: You’re strapped down, inclined by force, and your eyelids are wrenched open in an undefined spaciousness. Someone, something, is chiseling at you. It’s strikes your rib cage, prying towards your heart. It’s searching for something more, and as it pounds, the sensation is everything but painful. In fact, what holds you down and stretches the eyelids is your own volition. [View Full Entry]

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Travel, and the immersion into its inner experience, begets more and more—and more—travel. It’s not an addiction. Nor is it a habit of escapism. It is a transformation of lifestyles. True travel is a place of opening your self to the processes of inner journeying. It is a lying down of the arms of ordinary life and undertaking a new style wholly involving oneself and the world abroad. Absolute travel is a return to recognition of who you are, where you came from and where you’re going within the mass of global evolution. Number One…Or Number Two? [View Full Entry]

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I thirst for her. Her image is far, her reality existing elsewhere other than mine. Closing the eyes, I can see her skin—green, brown, yellows and autumnal oranges. She is silent in the patterns of passing weather. I can feel the wildness within her. Open again, after the quick flashes of rapid eyelids, I’m in my cell grasping aged iron bars within a grand structure of concrete, brick and stone. I’m in jail and all I can think of is her. Days and weeks pass strolling my paved limits, but finally I escape, digging through the noise and business, opening the [View Full Entry]

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It was early in the morning. A black sheen glared into my eyes under the mellow lit lamps. Their yellow cast stretched over a moistened street from the evening’s dew where shadows continued to play in frozen momentum. With unseen grace, the figures within their alternate world crept infinitesimally upon the asphalt. It was an easterly direction where shops were grated and the boulangeries, patisseries and brasseries were dark with their interiors. The sun was yet to rise. Within the early hours of the city, only the busying street cleaner in baggy green jumpers wi [View Full Entry]

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Venice; silent but for the jabbering tourists, the water taxi and ferry engines and the timid yapping dogs trailered by a thin flora leash. Nights upon the isles were mesmerizing as the gypsy coin jinglers of Florence felt like a gossamer memory of youth. Amidst the city, some four hundred gondolas made their rounds, kicking off the enclosing walls for guidance. In their adept grace and good humor, the stillness simply added to a hypnotic state found upon the lands of the Venetian lagoon. Albeit, even the temporal state of a traveler’s enthrallment comes with a price. The fee for [View Full Entry]

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The tracks clicked out of Roma Termini. The receding Italian capitol held our endless pace of exploration where a cocktail mixture of excitement and energy from the reunion of three traveling family members, kept us fueled. We were together again in a foreign land. From the high walls of neoclassical architecture within the heart of Rome through the suburban sprawls of modern blocks of concrete, lines of pastel clothing hung from windows. They sagged under the weight of earth, air and water, and oddly, each smiled tranquilly above the fray. Each wall wore a face. They were smiling mout [View Full Entry]

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I turned into We. One of the world’s most romantic cities in all of Europe, Rome was indeed lonely. Sights of couples and families teased my silence; smells tingled the senses. Five days and four nights with the clouds hovering low like a reflecting blanket of isolation, I wandered toward the Tiber, away from Vatican City and into the Ghetto to a marketed Campo de Fiori alone in waiting. Again, loneliness of one man, one traveler, caught in the conquest of romance upon a land dedicated to the life of comfort in sociability. In the highlights of a city without a [View Full Entry]

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Athens, like a titillating treat savored for a moment on the traveler’s cycle. It’s a city oozing with the sweets of today’s past, circumnavigating the present world; and with continuous force, persisting to inspire the evolution of mankind. Locked in a prison of Socrates’ mind, the city is that grain of rice, that morsel of bread, that last lick of ice cream to those who choose to linger and explore the many flavors of Athens. From the headaches of navigating the souvenir shops within the alleys of Plaka, through to the markets of Monastiraki and into the culture of [View Full Entry]

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