Eli and Millie
Eli and his friend Millie Middleton. I love these pictures.
Guizhou column and letters
A Trek Off the Beaten Path
Pays Rich Dividends
May 12, 2006
China has three weeklong holidays when virtually the entire country shuts down. With no school and no caregivers, they are prime times to go exploring, but because 1.3 billion…
Rodney Dangerfield Obit
My friend Alan Dezon who was over here working for Clear Channel and is now back for Ticketmaster, is a great guy to talk to. He is a music industry vet and I met him via Bert Holman, Allman Brothers' manager. Alan was the booker for the Capitol…
Most recent column
I wrote an extra column last week. They asked me to do that because they ahd a 10th anniversary celebration and made the site free for a week. Sorry I didn't that out to you all. It's because we were away.
Anyhow, this tale should be familiar…
Roberto
Because it's my blog, that's why.
More Guizhou pictures — this is the lunch I wrote about
The picture at the top shows the place where the little barbecue restaurant was. It is at the bottom of that road, right on the river.That's a live little fish Anna is holding in her hand.There were these kids from the village on the hillside…
More video — Miao folk dancing
This is for Aunt Joan. We felt like we were watching her living room dance. It is really amazing how similar some of the Miao embroideries look to the Panamian molas Joan loves so much.
Videos from the trip
This is Anna being wooed and swept away by the entire wait staff of the little restaurant where we had dinner our first night, in guiyang.Driving out of Kaili to the South, you go through this light industrial zone and then into the countryside,…
Let the Guizhou pictures begin
God, I have so many great pictures to share. I will try to post a bunch but will start with shots form the villages we visited. The area we were is an autonomous region for Miao minority people. They are the same as the Hmong in Laos, Vietnam…