News from Jupiter
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 […]
Greece: A Slippery Adventure
January 3, 2014
Although Khatmandu is many thousands of miles away I think of it as being next door. I have been there twice, important things happened there and I know the road. When I remember it, follow the streets in my mind’s eye and see the faces I knew, the immense distance from there to here simply melts away and I feel I could slip effortlessly across […]
How to get the book!
January 2, 2014
Just like Obama I’ve been struggling with my IT. I’ve never tried selling a book this heavy before and it introduces postage problems. Here’s how things stand. I have books here in California. Iain Harper has books in England which I signed. He can be reached at Iain@jupiterstravellers.org by anyone n the UK who wants the book signed by me. If you want it dedicated […]
Jupiter’s Travels in Camera
August 31, 2013
Ted Simon’s picture book has finally come to fruition. All three pounds of it have popped out of the printer’s womb, and I couldn’t be more delighted. Creating it, over the last six months, has been like living that wonderful adventure all over again. Writing fresh words to accompany more than 300 pictures took me back as nothing else could. And seeing those old […]
Fresh Words
May 12, 2013
Apologies again for a long absence. I’ve been working on a book and these days I don’t seem capable of doing more than one thing at a time (in the writing business, that is). It’s a book of pictures, otherwise I wouldn’t be done for another six months, but it needed a surprisingly large number of fresh words. The pictures are all from my first […]
An Adventurous New Year To You All
December 30, 2012
My long-held belief that adventure travel is good for the world in general got a welcome boost last night. Like most people my age I am an occasional insomniac and some nights I turn to the radio to wile away the early hours. Most of the long wave stuff is a mixture of rantings, fantasies, conspiracies, and miracle cures, but my local public radio station […]
Duisburg Blues
September 22, 2012
The summer has flown by. I launched the book, visited HorizonsUnlimited in Derbyshire, rode through Germany and France visiting old friends, took Lida on a tour of the UK, and spent ten days with Angel and Teresa in Madrid where they were launching an unbelievably luxurious 40th anniversary edition of Jupiter’s Travels. Now I’m back in California trying to make up for lost […]