Subject: "It's not just any boat, it's the Love Boat" Date: September 3, 2000 ... Cruising could get addictive. I just love all that ass-kissing and simpering...
Dave Adair
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Apr 3, 2001 11:06 am
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Subject: "North, in third gear" Date: September 18, 2000 ... As I was driving north up the gravel Dempster Highway in the Yukon, Canada, about 50 miles south...
Dave Adair
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Apr 3, 2001 11:07 am
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Subject: Bush and Buddha Date: February 13, 2001 ... I'm writing from India, where I've come to spend 20 days at a silent meditation retreat. Contrary to the...
Dave Adair
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Apr 11, 2001 4:41 pm
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Part 1 of more than 1 I was on the steps leading to the holy Ganges River here in Varanasi, India. In my left hand I was holding the fingerless hand of a woman...
Dave Adair
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Apr 18, 2001 3:11 pm
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Part 2 of 2 I'm writing again from Varanasi, India, where I've spent the last two months with other travelers providing basic medical care for lepers and...
Dave Adair
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May 5, 2001 10:33 am
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I'm in Kathmandu, Nepal, where I've scanned some photos from the leprosy street clinic. You can see Mr. Grumpy, my leper Granma, and more. The quality of the...
Dave Adair
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May 10, 2001 11:03 am
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Remember when I forgot to e-mail you that I was headed to Mt. Kailash in Tibet? Well, you can forget that you never read it, because I'm not going. Two days...
Dave Adair
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Jun 2, 2001 6:29 pm
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I find it just amazing what you can get used to. The first time I got tear-gassed today, it was unsettling and a little uncomfortable. But later in the day the...
Dave Adair
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Jun 4, 2001 5:17 pm
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Calm has returned to Kathmandu after the first curfew was ordered following Monday's riots. We had a brief break Tuesday morning before a noon-to-midnight...
Dave Adair
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Jun 6, 2001 6:09 pm
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The newspapers came out today with the first eyewitness account of last Friday's massacre of the royal family, claiming that it was, indeed, committed by the...
David Adair
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Jun 8, 2001 5:12 pm
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The much-anticipated report about the massacre of the Royal Family of Nepal was released last Thursday. I saw the report being read live on TV, first in Nepali...
David Adair
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Jun 19, 2001 10:10 am
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The bombs are dropping in Afghanistan, and these quotes strike me as informative and relevent: "Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor...
David Adair
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Oct 7, 2001 5:48 pm
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I just watched "Politically Incorrect", a current-events television talk show, where one person seriously advocated using nuclear weapons if another terrorist...
Dave Adair
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Oct 10, 2001 9:56 am
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War is such a blunt instrument, like a giant hammer looking for a nail. Though bombs are referred to as "smart," they aren't smart enough to know if you're...
I have bits of Bangkok lodged in my brain and stuck under my fingernails. But I can wash under my nails. Lauren and I arrived five days ago in Bangkok for a...
Lauren and I have arrived in the sometimes sleepy little village of Bodhgaya, India. The Dalai Lama just left, however, and while he was here there were some...
Two years ago, just after finishing a silent retreat like the one I've just done, I wrote a letter called "Bush and Buddha." In it I wrote that I couldn't...
I'm always hesitant to try to describe what the heck meditation is. At moments it seems very simple and clear, and at other times so deep that it's impossible...
It's the wedding season in India, and they are racous, carnival-like spectacles where there's only occassional bloodshed and loss of life. I was having dinner...
Varanasi and psychosis are an unpleasant combination, even though some would say that the former could lead to the latter. In an earlier newsletter I joked...
I had two reunions this year - one with my Mom's side of the family, where everyone has all their fingers and toes, and another this week with some dear...
I was positive that I wanted to come to the walking tour, called the "Dharma Yatra" in France when I knew I couldn't go. Then I found out Wednesday that I ...
I have some catching up to do. The last time I wrote from India, back in March, I talked about my "leper family reunion," how moving it was for me, and how I...
My one-month trip to England is wrapping up after three months here, having spent most of the time in Scotland and one week in Portugal. On the beautiful and...
I've been back from Scotland and its environs for 53 days, (but who's counting), and for most of that time I've intended to send out the link to photos from...
I don't expect you to understand this. Because I can't explain it, even to myself. Last night I met friends in Berkeley for "Love Fest 2004, the 9th Annual ...
Hello, dear everyone. I'm writing this from the suburbs of London, on my way tomorrow to southern France to go on another "DharmaYatra," a two-week meditative...
I've been in India a mind-tweaking seven weeks, but I have to look at a calendar to know that. After I was here for two weeks, I thought back to my life at...
Shocking news - I'm going traveling. My niece Courtney and I are going to the south of France for one month, leaving tomorrow. We'll spend two weeks driving...
Hi everyone. I'm writing to you let you know that I have my first EVER photography show opening at my friend Lillie's art gallery in Half Moon Bay this coming ...
