Lake Erhai, where Dali is located in Yunnan. Taken from the Zhonghe Temple in the Canshan Mountains, at 2,600 meters above sea level. Dali is 600 meters below, along the lake. Photo from the book, 44 Days Backpacking in China, by Jeff J. Brown. Listen to Jeff talk about some of the travel…
Will I ever get there? (image by 3.bp.blogspot.com) The owner/editor of a popular weekly magazine in Beijing challenged Jeff J. Brown, author of 44 Days Backpacking in China to answer personal questions about books and what literature, writers and genres mean to him. Some of his answers are quite surprising and revealing, and…
In the mountainous no-man’s land along the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan? (image by Press TV.) I was interviewed this weekend on Press TV, about the missing MH370 mystery. They didn’t like my casual 44 Days press photo, the one in the book. so, they googled my name and found the article I…
William R. Brown, 1931-2014. Photo May, 2010, by Jeff J. Brown. Considering the fact that my father died this week, that event will be discussed in the later part of this missive. But first, a quick review of the Year of the Snake, 2013. It’s now been three years back in…
The cover of Deena Stryker’s autobiography. (image by Deena Stryker) The overriding sensation in reading Deena Stryker’s amazing autobiography, Lunch with Fellini, Dinner with Fidel, is one of pinching yourself, Can this all be true? Why isn’t she well known, on TV and in the…
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