The times they are a-you-know-whating.

I just saw the latest issue of Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel Magazine. There is a feature article on Suriname. They have discovered the little nation and the article tells how it is possible take a river tour, to go to the (once) remote villages and rent a hammock. It has been twenty years since I was there and I think the world I was lucky enough to enter is gone or will be going soon. I was lucky to have the chance to go when it was an adventure.

Well, I can't go back anyway, or at least not until there has been a total change of government. My name is on some very bad lists because I provided a home in San Francisco to an escaping newspaper edtor and his family. This was big news in some quarters. The editor used to get phone call interviews from Dutch radio and television from reporters following the family story. The whole thing was very upsetting to a government that ruled by the gun. These were brutal people who had taken over a democratic government and were determined to stay in power at any cost.

Sourdough