Writing Portfolio

Out of Paradise - A Hitchhiker's Guide to the World

Published: 2015 Lulu.com

Chapter 1

Out of Paradise

1972 was the longest year in the history of man. It was a leap year and the Coordinated Universal Time committee added 2 leap seconds to the clock. It was a time of bell bottom pants and drive-in movies. A time of vinyl LPs, 8 track tapes and pet rocks. A time of Monty Python, Led Zeppelin and digital watches. It was also a time of war. The 1972 Vietnam draft nominees are about to be called and I’m not about to take any chances… Read more

Tote Gallardo - Street Artist and Humanitarian

Published: 2019 The Phuket News

One of the perks of operating a guest house in Phuket, Thailand, is interacting with all of the different walks of life that traverse the globe – the European latter day hippies, the vagrant vagabonds scrimping from hostel to hostel, the yuppie Ivy Leaguers on their spring break, champion Kenyan marathon runners, American Muay Thai kick boxers in training, German magicians, Filipino musicians, poets and prophets, and then there's Manuel “Tote” Gallardo - a free spirited cross...

Fairway to Seven - Stairway to Heaven golf parody

Published: 2021 Youtube

There's a lady on tour,

With the jitters I’m told,

And she's playing the fairway to seven.

When she gets there it snows,

And the pro shop is closed,

With a turd she can set at the front door.

Ooh, ooh, ooh,

And she's playing the fairway to seven.

There's some grime on her ball,

But she wants to be sure,

'Cause you know sometimes turds

have two feelings...

Phuket Bike Week - 2019

If the sleek sexy lines of a flaming teardrop gas tank and the slow rumbling throb of a well tuned Harley appeals to your inner being then Phuket Bike Week is the place to be. Accompanied with bike parades, custom bike contests, live entertainment, beach parties and the Miss Phuket Bike Week competition, the extravaganza is heralded as the premiere biking event in Southeast Asia, if not the entire Asian continent itself.

From its modest beginnings in 1995, with a mere 300 bikers (a grandiose turnout... Read more

A Tale of 3 Cities, Or how the Olympics Transformed Asia

As a long time resident of Asia, I have had a commanding front row view of both the effects and after-effects of being awarded the coveted berth of hosting the prestigious “Games” has had on each of its oriental hosting nations, not quite as far back as 1964, mind you, but every one since. I do, however, recall my initial impression of the very first Honda sub-compact tin can I saw cowering in the teachers' parking lot of Paradise Elementary School round about that same time frame.

Tokyo – 1959 – 1969...

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