Mountain Climbing and Chinatown

Hanover, Pennsylvania, USA
August 14, 2007
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Climbing Mountains.
Chinatown, Philadelphia.
Chinatown, Philadelphia.
Philadelphia, USA.

Photos from Past Travels

Caldera, Chile 2002
Otavalo, Ecuador 2000
At the equator, Ecuador 2000
India 2005
Stubbs in Laos, 2005

Mongolia to China

Oogi at Golden Gobi guesthouse.
Chinese street scene/
Mongolian country side.
Chinese market.
Chinese street scene.
Mongolian sign board. Telling it the way it is.
Lauren Everyly (www.loreneverly.org).
Belgian friend in Mongolia.
Train companion. Mother of the girl that wanted to marry Loren.
Inner Mongolian dinosaur pile.

Frontier of Mongolia

The Gobi desert at dusk.
A part Chinese, Southeast Asian, Mongolian, and French traveller concentrating in the Golden Gobi Guest-house in Ulaanbaatar. She thinks that camels are the stupidest looking animals on the planet and often falls off of them.
Mongolian provincial street scene, Ulaanbaatar.

Beijing, China

Shady looking Thai club in Beijing.
Opening to a Beijing side ally. There are little communities all over the city that are closed behind such gates. I would like to explore inside many of them but, as they are private areas, my intrusions would probably not be warranted- especially since Beijing is a major city that has many, many foreigners walking through the streets; sticking cameras in people's faces.
Placard on a rail car of the Trans-Siberian Express.

Bylakkupe, Tibetan Refugee Camp

Photographs from the Bylakuppe Tibetan Refugee camp in Southern India. Monks debating loudly, refugee school children, tanka paintings, and a cat living on a woman's back. Article about my conversations with the refugees at http://waderucksack.blogspot.com/ .

India, Autumn, 2006 II

Photos by Mira

India, Autumn, 2006

Asian travels with Stubbs 2005

These are from my Asia travels with Stubbs in 2005. We had a real romantic notion of travelling to India from the sea. So we took off frm Hong Kong and travelled accross southern China, Laos, Thailand, and then jumped a little into India. Stubbs is another Archaeologist vagabond who is just tramping through this world for no real reason at all. Old Stubbs was the guy who brought me to China for the first time.....Look where that got me. Now Stubbs fishes offshore in the big boats off Nova Scotia......and sometimes he is in Alaska on unknown ventures. His art is disappearing- and he drops out of this world and into the one of books with fascinating resolve...he pretends that he hates everybody. One of the best friends a man can have.

Nick and Jack

This is my sister, Nick; she is that pretty little dame on the right. I remember this; she thought that she was hot. She was real sassy that day. 'Sissy,' I would call her and she would yell,'MMMOoooooooooOOOOOMMM!' Now she gets called ma'am in restaurants.

Archaeological excavation, Pine Island, NY

These are photos from the Times Herald-Record who did a story on the Archaeological excavation that I was on a few months back. The photo on the top is that classic under the screen shot that all newspaper men get when they come out to the sites. We joke about this.
The next one down is a utalyzed flake in my hand, purdy, no? The third one down is Joanne and Sara....a couple of rough assed, iron fisted archaeology women. The bottom photo is of the crew digging, digging away. The lady towards the left with the protruding ass was a real grump known to all as the Curmudgeon. But behind her pursed lips of scorn I think that she is really a sweet woman.

More photos on: http://waderucksack.blogspot.com/

Kyoto train terminal, Jack the angel

Myself and my mate Steve-O were real drunk off Chu-hi and wandering around in the bright flouresent lights of Kyoto when we came upon this young girl crying uncontrolably at the train depot. So I bought her a box of chocolate filled bear shaped cookies and give her a little hug. She prolly thought me a touch cracked but, nonetheless, smiled a little through tears.

Photo by Steve Mendoza http://www.eastasiacenter.net/stevenmendoza/

Western NY Christmas

Christmas with North Country rednecks: By all means neccessary!

Herman Melville and Jack