Category Archives: Travel

Mad Rain

December 18, 2023 – 2:23 pm

In 2017 I was driving to Umphang a remote mountain town on the Thai Burma Border. Monsoons shrouded the peaks and created a a river torrent blocking the road. An intrepid pick up driver attempted a crossing and was swept away a hundred yards. We rescued him and then the truck was submerged by the […]

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ANDRETTA’S HAT – Video – 169 BAR

November 23, 2023 – 9:07 am

Sadly I lost that hat on a plane from Detroit in November 2021. Why Detroit. The Rolling Stones. Paint It Black you Devils

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TODOS SANTOS HORSE RACE by Peter Nolan Smith

November 1, 2023 – 4:02 am

In the autumn of 1992 I worked as a diamond salesman on West 47th Street for Richie Boy and his father, Manny. Business had improved under President Clinton and customers from around the USA traveled to New York for a good buy. That Christma Ms. Carolina had bought 2-Carat diamond studs in September. The blonde […]

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Cleveland Ho

November 1, 2023 – 1:02 am

In April of 2011 I drove south from New York to the Northern Fork in Virginia. Ms. Carolina was recovering from yet-another battle with cancer. Her husband thought my visit might cheer up the blonde beauty. The Potomac River was cold, but I jumped from their dock into the frigid water. Ms. Carolina laughed at […]

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Sleep Sweet Sleep

September 21, 2023 – 6:33 am

written Sept. 21, 2017 Tourists in Northern Thailand flock to the convergence of the Mekong and Mai Klong Rivers in expectation of experiencing the notorious Golden Triangle. Most express deep disappointment that there aren’t any opium dens from which they can watch the flow of the Mekong River. A few harass the riverside shop owners for a […]

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