When I was a little boy I saw a picture of the Switzerland Alps and countryside, the kind of setting where you see snow-capped mountains hovering over a lush green valley below with Swiss Chalets scattered all over the Alpine meadow.
That scene stuck with me all my life and I knew I wanted to go see it for myself sometime. So finally, last week, I lived out the dream.
Almost lost my “spensive” hat on this adventure!
KAYAKOKE
In a previous post, titled, “KAYAKOKE (pronounced Kayakoke)“, I rowed a kayak in Lake Union, in Seattle, while singing a Stevie Ray Vaughn song called, “Texas Flood”, and I deemed it to be ” Kayak karaoke”, and then contracted the two words to Kayakoke (pronounced “Kayak cokey”).
TRIP TO SWITZERLAND
So one day as I was thinking about my upcoming trip to Switzerland, which will be my last trip for this year (2015), I recalled a time when I was in South Korea and I occasionally went to a restaurant, in Itaewon, which was located close to Embassy housing at that time.
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,