I’m a gypsy rover at heart
Adventures on the Colorado Wine Route
Twenty-five years ago Bob and I wrote Rocky Mountain Wineries; a travel guide to the wayside vineyards. When the book went to press in 1994 there were forty-nine wineries in the [...]
China’s Mother Road
..."You see," says Li... "We want to live. Right now we are just shengcun. We are just surviving. We want to shenghuo. We want to live! You know? We want [...]
Adventures in reading: Stories from Nagovisi
A Red Woman Was Crying by Don Mitchell My rating: 5 of 5 stars I stumbled upon this collection of linked short stories at a bookstore in Hilo and [...]
Weymouth’s First Maritime Literary Festival March 12-13 2016
I'm looking forward to attending England's first maritime literary festival and meeting up with many of my nautical writer friends and acquaintances, and hopefully making new ones. Organized by James [...]
Back to Havana
...On the fifth day of June we were clear of the treacherous straits, the entire fleet having come through the passage without damage. It was an incredible feat of seamanship [...]
Rollin’ down to old Maui, me boys…
Bob and I enjoyed a quick stop on Maui on our way to Oahu... On the west side of Maui, tucked in at the base of the emerald [...]
St. Nicholas Abbey, Barbados
The great house came into view, shabby and overgrown, yet elegant somehow. The outmoded parapets like white waves against the red shingled roof, the azure sky. Hounds bayed; I heard [...]
“Runnin’ down a dream…”
Yesterday I took a little road trip alone, mostly for the hell of it, to explore -- and to work out some details for a novel I'm working on. I [...]
Postcards from Tombstone
Tombstone, Arizona: A little history, a little kitch, and a lot of atmosphere. This once violent town attracted the resourceful, the greedy, the desperate, the lawless, the opportunists, the sociopaths. "Listen Mr. [...]