Sojourner to Stoner

<p class=ql-align-justify>Sojourner to Stoner: The Journal is my record of Southeast Asia in the 1970s. I spent over a year as an officer in the U.S. Army in South Korea and close to two years travelling throughout Asia first as a backpacker and later as a Hippie (yippee-ki-yay or more appropriately hippie-ki-yay).</p><p class=ql-align-justify> </p><p class=ql-align-justify>This Journal (YING) is a companion piece to my photography books surprisingly also called Sojourner to Stoner. The Photographs (YANG) (You must buy the two books together: otherwise. the Universe will be out of balance and there will be chaos everywhere. or as Bill Murray quipped</p><p class=ql-align-justify>Cats and Dogs sleeping together).</p><p class=ql-align-justify> </p><p class=ql-align-justify>I have documented a time the 1970s before the all-pervading Western culture (sex drugs and rock and roll in Levi's} and The Economic Miracle changed Asia irrevocably</p><p class=ql-align-justify> </p><p class=ql-align-justify>The book is written from a traveler (Sojourner for Stupids) and a stoner (Don't Bogart that Bong) Perspective.</p><p class=ql-align-justify> </p><p>Communism. Western culture and the traditional way of life are all fighting for the Soul of Asia This is my vision of Asia a bright (albeit smokey) beam of fight from a star that has already vanished.</p>