Category Archives: Backpacking Addict

Backpacking Addict. In college I started to bring a teddy bear along to parties, then I went backpacking with it. After a while it became a small and fun side project. I took photos of him pretty much everywhere. I found the photos the other week. I thought I might start putting them up onContinue reading “Teddy Travels”

"At least 37 people were killed and about 700 injured after four bombs ripped through London’s underground network and tore the roof off a bus during Thursday-morning rush hour, police said. No warning was given ahead of the attacks — the deadliest terrorist incident in the capital in recent years — and police are investigatingContinue reading “London: Today.”

backpacking addict Ajith called two weeks ago. He said he had lost everything in the Tsunami. His brother dead, he watched him being washed away. His friends gone. His mother was okay but their house was destroyed. I of course offered to send him money, although I think he had every intention to ask. IContinue reading “Starting all over for Ajith,”

Day 20. Ajith called. He broke his hand but otherwise okay. I am trying to put to words together, but cannot. So overwhelmingly relieved. Just have been not facing the idea. Removed Tsunami from mind. Luckily, I was at a friend’s house, as I had company since the emotions that one has supressed finally released.Continue reading “Found: Ajith Priyantha in Sri Lanka”

According to the Geomap, someone is currently visiting the site from El Salvador. Beunos!! Comastan!!!! (That is if he or sheis actually on Glutter and not chanced in through bad search). Now that is cool. I love central America. — PS. In the last five minutes, we also had someone from Brazil and then Sudan.Continue reading “Visitors from El Salvador? Sudan? Brazil?”

  Name: Ajith Priyantha Age: 31 Home: Unawatuna (Near Galle)(The rocks that fell through God’s Fingers) Please Give:Crossroads International If I had to pick a moment I was very happy I would undoubtedly choose Sri Lanka. The sun, constant. The scenery, lovely. The country, although poor, had a dignity that persevered through every corner ofContinue reading “Missing: Ajith Priyantha in Sri Lanka”

Massive rescue efforts as Asian quake and tsunami toll soars near 23,000 Some Thoughts: 1) Ritcher 9. The Northridge quake that knocked down a building in my college was 7.5 or something like that. 2) The environmental impact of this will not be told for a long time. We have lost some of the world’sContinue reading “Asia Tsunami”

Sydney, Australia This country is obsessed with the death, pain and horror inflicted on the young. This morning, I woke to watching a segment of the American Murder where a women cut another woman’s baby out of her womb and claimed it as her own. That was the first story on channel nine news inContinue reading “Dead Babies and Shark Attack.”

Sydney I never get the ever changing temperature of this city. Until an hour ago it was sunny and warm. Now I can hear thunder. In fact the hail storm warning is up and people have been told to be prepared, and set up whatever they need (what that is I don’t know) to prepareContinue reading “Hail Storm Warning On a Sunny Day”