Traipse

To walk or tramp about; to gad, wander. < Old French - trapasser (to trespass).

Congo

Pebble on the Tongue: A Sweet, One-of-a-Kind, Byway

Apr 30, 2025
Along the lower reaches of the Congo River, in what was once called the Kingdom of the Kongo, lie tracts of sugar cane and a hundred-year-old factory that tickles the sweet tooth of central Africa.  But it is not the cane fields or the sugar plant or the rum it conjures that so impressed me […]

Pebble on the Tongue: A Sweet, One-of-a-Kind, Byway

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Along the lower reaches of the Congo River, in what was once called the Kingdom of the Kongo, lie tracts of sugar cane and a hundred-year-old factory that tickles the sweet tooth of central Africa.  But it is not the cane fields or the sugar plant or the rum it conjures that so impressed me […]

Written by Jonathan Larson

Golden Age of Air Travel: Gimpy Plane on a Rainforest Airstrip

Nov 23, 2024
There is a certain nostalgia these days for what some have called ‘the golden age of air travel’.  During much of the ‘50s and early ‘60s, before wide-bodied jets whisked hordes of tourists to the Azores, to Cancun and Chiang Mai, air travel meant piston-engine propeller planes with unpressurized cabins that took as long as […]

Golden Age of Air Travel: Gimpy Plane on a Rainforest Airstrip

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There is a certain nostalgia these days for what some have called ‘the golden age of air travel’.  During much of the ‘50s and early ‘60s, before wide-bodied jets whisked hordes of tourists to the Azores, to Cancun and Chiang Mai, air travel meant piston-engine propeller planes with unpressurized cabins that took as long as […]

Written by Jonathan Larson

Mt. Hoyo: Ituri Cave Find that Beggars the Imagination

Jan 28, 2024
Just north of the Mountains of the Moon, gazing down on the waters of Lake Albert, the Nile, and Africa’s Rift Valley, stands a Blue Mountain peak its head wreathed in cloud.  Mt. Hoyo (1,450 m, 4,760 ft.) cloaks its flanks with the Ituri rainforest, sometime home of the Mbuti forest people.  Neglect and civil […]

Mt. Hoyo: Ituri Cave Find that Beggars the Imagination

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Just north of the Mountains of the Moon, gazing down on the waters of Lake Albert, the Nile, and Africa’s Rift Valley, stands a Blue Mountain peak its head wreathed in cloud.  Mt. Hoyo (1,450 m, 4,760 ft.) cloaks its flanks with the Ituri rainforest, sometime home of the Mbuti forest people.  Neglect and civil […]

Written by Jonathan Larson

Cemetery Poetry – 3: Laying To Rest A Shade And Its Transport

Oct 14, 2022
The care of burial grounds is not everyone’s cup of cardamom tea.  There are, after all, those stories about resident wraiths in midnight gloom.  About skullduggery, bad juju and unrelieved, tortured lives.  About white-knuckle secrets taken in silence to the bitter end.  This is ground awash with tears, sewn with regrets enough to make even […]

Cemetery Poetry – 3: Laying To Rest A Shade And Its Transport

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The care of burial grounds is not everyone’s cup of cardamom tea.  There are, after all, those stories about resident wraiths in midnight gloom.  About skullduggery, bad juju and unrelieved, tortured lives.  About white-knuckle secrets taken in silence to the bitter end.  This is ground awash with tears, sewn with regrets enough to make even […]

Written by Jonathan Larson

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