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The Dachshund in the Fenster
It's been a while since I've posted, but not for lack of interest in communicating with y'all. My cherished companion and I have just returned from a small-ship cruise of the Indian Ocean, from Mauritius to Zanzibar, tarrying along the way in Reunion, Madagascar, Mayotte and the Comoros. It was a part of the world I'd long wanted to see, and it didn't disappoint.
I'm occasionally asked if my relentless globetrotting is in aid of my work. Since most of my books are set in New York, the answer would seem to be self-evident. While I did set Tanner on Ice in Burma, not long after our return from that country, I can assure you I didn't have that in mind while we were over there. (I never figured I'd write anything more about Tanner, let alone send him off to Burma. Go know.)
My travel is for pleasure. No doubt it's for other things as well—a shift of perspective, a break from routine, the alluring illusion of enlightenment—but it's emphatically not for research. Why would I want to ruin a pleasant experience by writing about it?
Yet I will write about the cruise, and soon. For the past two and a half years I've been contributing a monthly column to Linn's Stamp News, and I suspect my next column will concern the philatelic history of several of the places we visited. It seems appropriate; these are countries I've long known only through the medium of stamp collecting, and it's interesting to me the way travel and philately tend to inform each other. Considering that three of our ports of call in Madagascar—Ile Ste. Marie, Diego Suarez, and Nossi-Be—were all individual stamp-issuing entities for a time in the 19th Century, I don't think I'll have much trouble filling a column...
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I'm occasionally asked if my relentless globetrotting is in aid of my work. Since most of my books are set in New York, the answer would seem to be self-evident. While I did set Tanner on Ice in Burma, not long after our return from that country, I can assure you I didn't have that in mind while we were over there. (I never figured I'd write anything more about Tanner, let alone send him off to Burma. Go know.)
My travel is for pleasure. No doubt it's for other things as well—a shift of perspective, a break from routine, the alluring illusion of enlightenment—but it's emphatically not for research. Why would I want to ruin a pleasant experience by writing about it?
Yet I will write about the cruise, and soon. For the past two and a half years I've been contributing a monthly column to Linn's Stamp News, and I suspect my next column will concern the philatelic history of several of the places we visited. It seems appropriate; these are countries I've long known only through the medium of stamp collecting, and it's interesting to me the way travel and philately tend to inform each other. Considering that three of our ports of call in Madagascar—Ile Ste. Marie, Diego Suarez, and Nossi-Be—were all individual stamp-issuing entities for a time in the 19th Century, I don't think I'll have much trouble filling a column...
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