week 134

 

Mon: How does cow milk compare to almond, rice, or soya juice? If in need, stick to milk!

Tue: The drive from Vancouver to Anchorage, along British Columbia and Alaska coastline, offers a close encounter with nature, as long as some eyesores are avoided.

Wed: Panama, Costa Rica and Nicaragua, all with access to both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans have developed a very different economic output.

Thu: New Zealand south island with its alpine mountain range and careful tourist exploitation may last relatively untouched for a while longer.

Fri: Anadyr, capital of Chukotka, with its chukchi people minority clinging to their whale hunting way of life, is another example of Western imposed sedentarism to native peoples.

week 133

 

Mon: What does separate us, humans, from our chimpanzees cousins? That we are born absolutely helpless.

Tue: From Lima to lake Titicaca, via Cuzco and Ayacucho, gives a glimpse of a 4 faced Peru, the foggy coast, the snow covered high Andean peaks, the altiplano and the rain forest.

Wed: The fluvial route from Belem to Leticia, via Santarem and Manaus, shows what a great river like the Amazon can provide to its riverbank settlers.

Thu: Patagonia, with its Valdes peninsula, Perito Moreno glacier or Ushuaia bay port, has an immense and pristine environmental richness to preserve.

Fri: Tiksi, at the mouth of the Lena river, may well be a coming a booming commercial city port in the Artic ocean … by 2100!

 

week 132

 

Mon: Is umami a new taste or just chef’s hype?

Tue: Economically poor people in Japan are just invisible.

Wed: Vietnam, from Saigon to Hanoi, show how resilient a people can be no matter the imperialist threat.

Thu: The first french climber to reach Everest retraces his steps 30 years later to a sad conclusion, do not bother going.

Fri: In Dudinka, close to the mouth of the Yenisei river, the viking gets the royal treatment at the local college.