ACKNOWLEDGEMENT xi PROLOGUE In Here Now Go Out There Roaming Free TRAVELOGUE I Journey Is Long Money Short The-Sun-Usually-Doesn’t-Rise-on the Kingdom Landscape and Peoplescape in Highlands A Don Quixote in Turmoil-ridden Belfast A Literary Excursion around Dublin Two Titans with Too-Close-but-also-Too-Distant Links Between As the “Inscrutable One” Holy Island with the Tremendous Traces Edinburgh and the University Patient and Permissive Where Dead Things Are Alive Literary Sons of Scotland TRAVELOGUE II To Brussels via the English Channel The Land of Nature and Artifact The Mecca of All Art Lovers My Idol Simply as a Human Being All Roads Lead to Tourism in Rome To Assisi Home of St. Francis San Marino the Smallest Republic in the World Where Dante Finished His Divine Work and Earthy Life in Exile My Message Reads “The City Full of Water Please Save” The Alps in the Italian Sun Alps ... ACKNOWLEDGEMENT xi PROLOGUE In Here Now Go Out There Roaming Free TRAVELOGUE I Journey Is Long Money Short The-Sun-Usually-Doesn’t-Rise-on the Kingdom Landscape and Peoplescape in Highlands A Don Quixote in Turmoil-ridden Belfast A Literary Excursion around Dublin Two Titans with Too-Close-but-also-Too-Distant Links Between As the “Inscrutable One” Holy Island with the Tremendous Traces Edinburgh and the University Patient and Permissive Where Dead Things Are Alive Literary Sons of Scotland TRAVELOGUE II To Brussels via the English Channel The Land of Nature and Artifact The Mecca of All Art Lovers My Idol Simply as a Human Being All Roads Lead to Tourism in Rome To Assisi Home of St. Francis San Marino the Smallest Republic in the World Where Dante Finished His Divine Work and Earthy Life in Exile My Message Reads “The City Full of Water Please Save” The Alps in the Italian Sun Alps a Wake and the Hangover Joan an Off-duty Tour Guide Down the Long Rhine Streets Canals and Museums in Amsterdam Everything New on the Road TRAVELOGUE III A Wanderer’s Freedom in New York Where the Top of the Capitol Is the Loftiest Passing Moments in Pictures Through the Window A Pebble out of Grand Canyon Along the Pacific Coast Charlie and the First Americans I met A Journey into the Past Edinburgh Revisited Stonehenge Dartmoor and Land’s End Ahmad Evan Mario and John TRAVELOGUE IV A Pair of Big Babies in Alien Places The Cubistic Landscape of Cervantes Country New Madrid and Old Madrid The Past Well-preserved in the Iberian Peninsula Crossing Gibraltar Strait to Africa Moorish Marks in Southern Spain Where Gods and Humans Live Play and Compete Together The Silvery Sea-sheen in the Moonlight Ancient Olympia the Myths and History Colossal Columns Still Stand on Cape Sounion TRAVELOGUE V West Side of Manhattan Revisited “You see I am from Hawaii” Korean Traces in Hawaii Diamond Head to Marblehead Englewood Cliffs upon Hudson iPad - a White Elephant to Me EPILOGUE Living as if Passing by My True Life Lane A Gang of Four Oldie Rascals