Travel – Page 4 – David Haldane

February 20, 2020

Left Turns

By David Haldane Feb. 20, 2020 It was the kind of announcement you don’t want to hear from a pilot. Especially one controlling the airplane […]

August 15, 2019

By David Haldane August 15, 2019 It was three a.m. when my call finally went through. At work in California where it was still daylight, […]

July 11, 2019

By David Haldane July 11, 2019 For us, it all came down to a tee shirt. Ivy – my Filipino wife who became a US […]

July 4, 2019

By David Haldane July 4, 2019 It was the thud to end all thuds. The kind that makes your heart sink and your breath stop. […]

June 20, 2019

By David Haldane June 20, 2019 It’s called a corkscrew. Back in the US where I come from, they are as common as, well, mosquitos […]

June 5, 2019

By David Haldane June 6, 2019 It was just a glass of water. A simple request, or so I thought. But this was China. And […]

May 2, 2019

By David Haldane May 2, 2019 For me, it was the tunnels that cut the deepest. Two hundred kilometers of them snaking beneath the jungles […]

March 18, 2019

By David Haldane March 18, 2019 His name was Jerome. For about three months, he was our driver. Now he’s not and I am once […]

February 25, 2019

By David Haldane Feb. 25, 2019 It was as if the sky had caught fire. The fog rolled in, the sun touched the horizon and, for […]

January 29, 2019

By David Haldane Aug. 2, 2018 The thing that finally got to me was the abundance of tears. Some belonged to friends plainly sad to […]

May 10, 2018

By David Haldane May 10, 2018 On good days, I tell myself that it could happen anywhere. That it’s all just a symptom of progress, which […]