News from Jupiter
Aspiration Celebration
October 25, 2015
I know, I know, I said I’d keep a daily score, but I suddenly ran into huge IT problems and it’s taken all week to clear it up. Anyway, here’s the great news. The week started with a flurry of donors and well-wishers, enough to convince me that you like what I am trying to achieve. So here’s the tally to date. Since last weekend […]
More Aspirations
October 17, 2015
This is a rather special week for me. For many years now people have been telling me how Jupiter’s Travels has changed their lives, and of course I am very proud of that. On my website I am offering you a chance to change MY life and at the same time help returning Jupiter’s Travellers to tell us the truth about what the world is […]
Aspirations
October 10, 2015
I forgot to mention last time that I was going to France for a month to look for a house, although I did talk about it on Facebook. Well, I’ve been and I’m back. The search did not start well. I’d booked and paid for two weeks in a rural place in the area where I thought I wanted the house to be, on the […]
Housekeeping and other stuff
August 9, 2015
It’s Sunday and for the moment the smoke has cleared from the valley, thanks to those 3,500 amazing fire-fighters struggling with the Rocky Fire just fifty or so miles away. But this morning it’s more about smoke and mirrors. I’m in the grip of a dilemma. I have an email list I use to send snippets of information, but it’s too long to send as […]
How I spent my summer
July 13, 2015
Almost forty years ago, on the plains of northern India, I watched in amazement as four bare-foot Indians in pale blue gowns trotted past me on a long, dusty road carrying on their shoulders the two poles of a litter. On the litter sat a young man, cross-legged, dressed in blazer and slacks, wearing an old school tie, smoking a cigarette, and gazing languidly over […]
’tis the season
May 14, 2015
A season of meetings and rallies and reunions with old friends. The Overland Expo starts on Friday in the upper reaches of Arizona and I’m working overtime to finish a film that I hope to show. Well that’s a lie – I’m not working overtime, it’s my friend Mark Ordway who’s thrashing away at the Final Cut Pro machine while I look helplessly on. May […]
Samballistic
February 4, 2015
We’re off to Rio on Sunday – Lida and me, just like proper tourists, and not a motorcycle in sight. We’ll be there for Carnival and, to tell the truth, I’m pretty damned excited. I’ve only been to one carnival before, in Bahia thirty years ago, and it was wonderful, but the Rio Carnival they say is beyond description. We’re very lucky. We have somewhere […]
Interruption
August 11, 2014
The meeting at Gieboldehausen is not happening. I’ve been going there quite regularly since the nineties, when it was quite small. Even though it has grown to be much bigger it still feels just as relaxed and easy-going as ever, but it depends on the Hotel Niedersachsen and sometime in the last months the manager said “Schluss!!!”, posted the hotel keys in the mayor’s letter […]
As the world turns . . .
August 1, 2014
Just in case you’re interested I’m on a bit of a whirligig this year, just trying to cram as much in as possible before the world as I know it flames out. I’ve already been to India (January), England and Spain (June). In May I lavished my own particular brand of nonsense on a batch of lovely students in Pittsburgh, and in July I inflicted […]
The Indians are coming – Hurrah, hurrah!
March 8, 2014
Back in 1976 I was riding up the West coast of India towards Goa when I came to Karwar, an interesting fishing port with boats that might have sailed there from 18th century England. I stopped for a meal at a truck stop and the cook asked me where I was going. I told him. “Ah,” he said, “Goa going. Nice place. My from is […]