Soldier to Sojourner

<p>Soldier to Sojourner: The Journal is my impression of North Asia in the 1970s. I spent over a year as an officer in the U.S. Army in South Korea</p><p> and close to two years traveling throughout Asia first as a backpacker and later as a Hippie (yippee-ki-yay).</p><p> </p><p>This Journal is a companion piece to my photographic book surprisingly also called Soldier to Sojourner: The Photographs (Two books for the price of two books. Such a deal!)</p><p> </p><p>I have documented a time the 1970s before the all-pervading Western</p><p>culture (sex drugs and rock and roll in Levi's) and The Economic Miracle changed Asia irrevocably.</p><p> </p><p>The book is written from a soldier (At Ease) and traveler (Sojourner for Stupids) viewpoint.</p><p>Each day in my journey brought new enchantments incredible beauty sordid ugliness joy and suffering that I tried to capture in words.</p><p> </p><p>The Asia of Conrad and Maughan is gone and the war-torn Asia of Vietnam will also pass.</p><p>This is my vision of Asia a bright shining light from a galaxy far far away that has already disappeared.</p>