№ 335. Vintage Americana

Santa Monica Sunset

Budget Mozart in Central Park

№ 304. Mulanay Through Square Lenses

Field trips are fun. I haven't joined one in a while--- for about a year.

Fellow hunters of good angles, light, food and laughs.

Happy feet are feet on field trips.

№ 271. Looking for Nakata's Keystone

I'm narrating in reverse as I recall the trips to Kyoto and Nara last March. No rules. No words.

№ 270. Mt. Inarii

"Myths are like a reservoir containing every story there is." - Haruki Murakami

Old LPs & Keystones 

Here we stand: Backpack
Stuffed with metaphors;

Talismans to ward

№ 262. Palawan

Palawan is the Philippines's last frontier. It's the island of 1,001 beaches or maybe even more.

Here's why....




Bento Box: 

Start from topmost part of the island and work your way downward to end in Puerto Princesa, the capital.

(a) Coron, Calauit and Culion
(b) El Nido and the islets and coves
(c) The stops in the long land trip between El Nido and Puerto Princesa
(d) Puerto Princesa and other spots.

Go. Now.

№ 254. The Reading Club

Here's a good Friday find:

If you put all the books you own on the street outside your house, you might expect them to disappear in a trice. But one man in Manila tried it - and found that his collection grew.

№ 87. Entablado

The theater is a window and a mirror.

First, one peers at some unfamiliar reality outside himself and immerses his next minutes exploring the wonderland. Second, he sees a reflection of some familiar bedfellow and risks pages of emotions and memories from the epiphany.

Theater can be hazardous.