I was a dedicated diary writer from 1985 to 1990. I am slowly transcribing about 1000 pages of those scribblings, which include almost two years as a vagabond wandering in Asia, Europe and North America. I was pretty broke much of the time, so I had to take occasional jobs: some were engineering projects, but…
Category: Vagabond
Tales of travel and explorations – usually aimless (the travels mostly, not so much the tales)
CV as Random Walk
Curriculum Vitae means the “course of one’s life”. Mine has not been a linear course but a random walk – one step in that direction, the next step in another. As I sketch below, the trajectory has been a sometimes tortuous, often aimless path, composed of surprise life lurches with many detours. Curriculum Vitae means the “course…
Jam, honey, bread, syncline
Browsing through the March pages in my 1986 diary, I found a tasty entry. I had just finished a horrible job at Bandar-e-Taheri, on the Persian Gulf, in Iran. I was there to supervise drilling exploration for a proposed oil terminal. The job was horrible for several reasons, none of them due to being in…
Painted Doors/Painted Ladies
Wallace, in the Silver Valley, in the Coeur d’Alene district of the Idaho Panhandle used to be a very special place for me. Come to think of it, anywhere that blends heart and panhandle and silver should be special and certainly, Wallace has a special place in mon cœur.