- 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 +