![]() The former Yugoslavia and now it's Bosnia and Herzegovina, a different country. ![]() ![]() I went before and after the war, so I've seen it change a lot. I felt like I was embraced spiritually by the land and the culture.Ī place I go back to a lot is Sarajevo, because I lived there one summer. Some countries are masculine and some are feminine, and China's a woman. The people, I'm not talking about the government. Maybe that's why it affected me so much-because when your heart is broken, you feel things so deeply. I went there after my mother had died and I was heartbroken. I ended in Beijing you should do Beijing first, because that's the ugliest part. ![]() I started in Shanghai, but I think that's really where you should end. They talk really loud, they have all kinds of strange food, they revere jade, and they revere their ancestors. I feel like the Chinese are cousins to the Mexicans. Those are the two things I know exist: poetry and ghosts. They respect poetry, and they believe in ghosts. They'll unwrinkle.Ĭhina, because China loves poetry. Just fill it with water and hang up your clothes as soon as you get there on the shower rod and mist them. And one thing I learned to travel with: my friend's a clothing designer and she always travels with a spray bottle. And I like the one with the hole, because then I own it. I want the cashmere sweater with the hole in it. I like to have my one flannel pajama or flannel robe, but not both because they take up too much room. I want to have my own soap, and it's got to be a really nice one. There's certain things I have to have, because traveling is exhausting. I always take with me my necessary luxuries. I always bring gifts because I live in Mexico and Mexicans: we always arrive bearing gifts. Part of the reason that I am traveling with more bags than I should is because one has my clothes, then I have a whole other bag filled with books and facial masks, and then gifts I buy for my employees. We used to have one like that-it had a separate compartment, zippered on the base where you could put Champagne or tequila or your toiletries, but they change the designs every year and then you can't find that anymore. I haven't found a suitcase where you can put your toiletries and your clothes in the same bag without risking your toiletries breaking open. I wish someone would ask me how to design the perfect suitcase. I could go on a trip that I think is leisure, but then I'll wind up writing. I never travel for leisure, because every trip is leisure and business. On the difference between business trips and vacation: You can look out the window and write poetry, or you think: Who lives there? What would it be like to live in that house? I got that from growing up and living in Chicago and being on the El train, which takes you through the backsides of buildings. I hate being in boats because I'm afraid of water. I'm frightened on planes and I pretend I'm not, and I'm frightened in cars. And I met a beautiful person once on the train from Portland to Seattle. I don't want to see other people and I don't want to chat with them.īut on the other hand, I was on an Amtrak ride from New York to D.C., and I had the most pleasant time talking to an elderly, retired train employee who was going to visit his son in Philadelphia. Chatting with people is the most difficult thing, and I do it for a living and it wears me out. My idea of hell is being with a lot of people I don't know.
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