Leaving Kirkyra - the Greek wester isle - behind - with turbulent Paris friends - the author strikes out - and alone - across Mainland Greece - hitchhiking in a cultural discovering daze - and is carried away thru Turkey - and into Iran - in a faintly heady and purging malaise - coming to in Tehran - and staying awhile - for the winter - to learn - as a teacher and a reader - and a sometimes reporter - and cultural surmiser and writer - - For a downtown diurnal - trilingual news paper - interspersing with further internal adventures - hitchhiking to Kuwait - and Baghdad - and returning - to serve out his time - at the paper - till the Spring takes me on and further - on my wayfaring way to the East - -
