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"Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.'" Kurt Vonnegut

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  • dancing and dinner with a Romany (gypsy) family in Romania
  • paragliding over Neuschwanstein Castle south of Munich
  • roadside chai near New Delhi
  • getting trapped inside nepal cut off from all communication (cell phone, email, etc.) when the king closed the borders and shut down phone lines (02/05)
  • running into an old friend from India on the streets in Budapest
  • camping on the banks of the ganges
  • Halong Bay in Northern Vietnam - most beautiful and otherworldly place I've been
  • stumbling upon a buddhist monastery outside of Hue by scooter - the trees sounded like wind chimes as we approached
  • sharing chai and rice at a sikh community centre center near agra
  • after having been mildly assaulted by a drunk serbian war vet on the train to belgrade, two young serbian musicians helped me find my hotel and restored my faith in humanity
  • left my passport on the island of korcula. A nice local fisherman retrieved it, returned it to me in Dubrovnik and asked me to only share a bottle of croatian wine for payment.
  • finding Au fil des saisons restaurant in paris
  • standing on the observation deck at the World Trade Center in 1978
  • getting drunk in a hostel with my sister in Venice and passing out on the stairs
  • eating gelati in february in florence in the middle of the first snow in 15 years
  • erin getting mistaken for alannis morissette by schoolkids at the Uffizi in Florence - I egged them on until she was signing autographs and singing a capella
  • hiding out in Prague with erin for 3 weeks
  • oscar wilde at pere-lachaise in the rain
  • denise and joachim at hotel mozart in vienna
  • all buskers and street musicians of the world
  • my porn actor/coffee friend/tour guide in budapest
  • all the inspiring, heartbreaking, brilliant, hysterically funny, emotional and so very young artists I have met in my travels, especially ben
  • mad and eniko
  • the varanasi ghats
  • many magical dinners offered by strangers everywhere
  • belgrade after-hours
  • charles bridge at sunrise in prague
  • the cemetery at vysehrad
  • climbing an alpine mountain in slovenia and recording my name
  • cafe nights ih Ljubljana
  • jude law asking me for the time as he stepped off a yacht on the island of hvar in croatia
  • my dad stopping at every "giant ball of twine," "hanging judge," random americana roadise attraction that we asked him to on a drive from California to New Jersey and back in 1977
jun 25 2007 ∞
jul 15 2007 +