Terrian Journals Second Anthology is a glimpse inside some volumes of the Terrian Journals series. These are true stories, written as they happen, about journeying and living thoughtfully beyond and within the parental homeland and discovering how much more there is to learn about life in both the inside and the outside world.

Author Biography

The author of the Terrian Journals series begins writing these stories while living in Rio de Janeiro, Cordoba, and Valparaiso when nasty military dictatorships are on the way out and democracies are returning, seven years before the Berlin Wall collapses. The writing of this series continues while the author is living in Fukuoka, Barcelona, Djakarta, Singapore, Tokyo, Quebec, Fort de France, Quito, Santiago de Cuba, Miyazaki, etc. Travelling extensively, tens of thousands of kilometres overland, on foot, by thumb, bus, train, trishaw, and rickshaw, he crosses vast stretches of the Americas from Ushuaia to Inuvik, Asiaeur from Vladivostok to Tallin, southern Asia from Chittagong to Delhi, etc. He takes some ferries and planes too. He is invited to stay in ordinary people's homes or sleeps in very modest hotels, and sometimes in a tent. Some of these adventures are alone, others are with his Carioca friend Zita, and yet others are with his Kyushu partner Mariko. Before any of this, he is born in a subarctic city of Canada and earns degrees in political science, adult education, journalism, and community planning at three universities in Ontario and B.C. His work includes community journalism, planning, cooperative housing, civil liberties, and adult education. He and his partner work on their own in a very tiny, virtually non-profit adult education organization, which they carry with them.