ETHOS
06 Nov 2008

Los Angeles: You won't believe this folks but this morning Im sitting at a computer in an empty lobby in a motel in Marina del Ray drinking a large cup of coffee and wondering where it all started to go right after going so wrong for too long and wondering yet if Im right that's it's going right or it's just the combined effect of that mezmerizing Southern California sun and the  endless undulations of the rolling Pacific. Maybe it's just jet lag. But here I am in the la-la-est part of Obamaland and pinching myself (I have the bruises to prove it) to see if it's true. It all started less than two weeks ago when I was riding my bicycle down a grey side street in Warsaw under an evil drizzle just in sight of the synagogue . . . (to be continued)

the guerilla traveler