Portraits of travel from around the world

It was women who led me to travel.

First Sophie stayed on a kibbutz for a summer and then traveled to Jordan and around. But once Bertie Tomashevsky returned from Thailand, she showed me photos of 15 months of travel through Southeast Asia, China, and Japan, and the world really opened up.

Aim high, they said.

Everyone else was telling me, No!

Today’s Posting

สิบสอง. Our Selfish War Part 2

A Thai soldier adjusts his steel-rimmed sunglasses. He stands legs astride, feels the tension in his thighs, holds the gun from the hip. He raises a bottle of whisky to his lips, eats glass he does and watches old American war movies. Likes to sprinkle bullets in the air when he’s alone, and when he’s not he fucks with boots on. She can see her face in the shine.