In my previous post, “West Coast to East Coast to West Coast to East Coast to West Coast in 15 Days”, I talked about traveling back and forth, across the U.S., four times in 15 days.
That’s not something I normally do. So I was even surprised when I realized I had done just that.
In fact, I’ve traveled more during the past year (from November 2014 to October 2015), than I have in the past ten years.
I know the title is too long. But I’ve traveled coast to coast four times in the past 15 days.
That title reminds me of a line in a song by John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers which goes like this: “I was looking back to see if she was looking back to see if I was looking back at her!”
For some time, I had been thinking about going to Berkeley, California, to see an old friend, with whom I worked in Korea a long time ago.
So a couple of months ago when I first saw the promotion that said Lizz Wright would be singing on September 12 at the Berklee Performance Center, in celebration of the September 4 release of her new (and fifth) CD, called “Freedom and Surrender“, I thought,
Leaving Seattle, heading east to Asheville, N.C.
As the plane took to the skies at 6 a.m., on Tuesday (Feb. 24) morning, from Seattle, Washington, I leaned forward slightly to peer out the window from my seat.
I’ve always liked sitting by the window, not only to transform my body into the shape of a crescent moon, but to take in the view, and try to identify familiar buildings, sites and old landmarks along the way.
I was headed to Asheville, North Carolina, for an Excellent Adventure!
I was living in South Korea at the time and I worked as a Korean translator. To get better at the language, I immersed myself in the culture and customs.
I also made many trips to the Korean bookstores looking for dictionaries, books with short stories, magazines similar to Reader’s Digest, music books, and bilingually published books. The English was on the left side and the Korean on the facing page. So I could quickly see how they would say things.