Category Archives: Travel

Jowls of Death

January 31, 2012 – 7:22 am

Last Wednesday I crossed the Channel to the UK and for the last several days and nights I have been wandering around London; seeing the film FLANGAGAN’S WAKE at Bafta, visiting the National Art Gallery for a viewing of David Hockney’s exhibition, walking in Richmond Park, strolling through Putney and hampstead Heaths, drinking at the [...]

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Off To London

January 25, 2012 – 6:33 am

Leaving Mittel Europa in a Porsche headed to catch the Chunnel train underneath the Channel. Madame L’Ambassador at the wheel. She doesn’t trust me to drive. I wonder why. Ready Steady Go.

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TOO LATE FOR THE HAIGHT by Peter Nolan Smith

January 11, 2012 – 3:48 am

The bus from Sacramento crossed the Bay Bridge in light traffic. Most everyone in the Bay Area had off Memorial Day. The uniformed driver took the first exit to the Transbay Terminal and parked in the depot. I grabbed my bag from the storage compartment underneath the bus and entered the station. Holiday passengers were [...]

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TO THE DOOR by Peter Nolan Smith

January 6, 2012 – 9:37 am

I-5 ran south out of Sacramento. The day was getting hot in the Central Valley and AK cranked up the Torino’s AC. I turned around several times to be disappointed that Carol wasn’t in the backseat. A whisper of her rose attar fragrance clung to the car. She and her Joni Mitchell tape were on [...]

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THE Id LOUNGE by Peter Nolan Smith

January 5, 2012 – 3:42 am

The Rockies were blurring in the window of the Inferno Lounge. AK tapped me on the shoulder and I turned my eyes away from the distant mountains to the interior of Sterling, Colorado’s only bar. Carol was nowhere in sight and I was drunk for the first time since leaving Boston. “It’s time to go.” [...]

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