In his book A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East, Tiziano Terzani recounts a scene in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, in which he is at a fortune-teller’s house, sitting in a dark room lit by an oil lamp. Over the door and written in chalk (and presumably in Khmer) is, “Carnal passion, jealously, […]
Connected To All Outside The Airplane Window
Travel long and far enough and over time you’ll have looked out several airplane windows. Through the oval frame you will have seen the glaciers of Alaska and the rice fields of Bali, the Pyramids of Giza and the temples of Bangkok. You’ll have gazed upon the White House in winter, the Eiffel Tower the […]
Constant Change In Cairo, Egypt (And Elsewhere)
If you are looking for Egyptian antiques in Cairo – and by antique I mean something from around fifty or one hundred years ago, not something from King Ramses’ bedstand in 1292 B.C. – you can find an array of items among the shops like the one above near the Khan el-Khalili bazaar. Egypt has […]
If You Want To Identify Me
On the road, one of the most common questions the traveler is asked is “Where are you from?” It is a fair question, but if you hear it daily for months in a row you may begin to wonder what it really means, just as you wonder what it really means when you answer “the United […]