Miles Off

Paul S. Davey

Awaken your intelligence and go forth, but endeavor not to arrive
for that is when mischief begins.

Paul S. Davey is a travel and fiction writer. He started life in the UK but now turns up in the strangest of places around the world -- usually with his notebook handy

Fiction

Novels

Short Stories

Indo-China

Vince's Days
Travels with my alter ego

Nonfiction

Recent Journeys
Mexico, Indonesia, Thailand
India, Turkey, Malaysia
Western Europe, Philippines
Pakistan, Egypt, China
Indo-China, Nepal, U.S.A.

Artwork
By Peggy Chen
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Everything must have its own box: travel writing box for whacky travelogue, packaged and labelled to attend to the witless consumer in us. Stop, rewind, backtrack, and flip your mind inside out -- we're getting out of the box. The only box I want is a long wooden one for my dead body; even that I'm not sure about. Travelling, living, writing -- they blend if you let them, just don't force things too much, and scrape off those ugly labels. Enjoy the cocktail.

The world comes to you if you wait long enough, or you can go to it (it's quicker). But where is it and how far is far? Some of the best travellers I know barely move, some of the worst go everywhere.

I once met a wrinkled old goatherd, siting on a mountain pass in south-west China; he asked me if life was passing me by or if I was passing by life. And how did I know anyway? His name was Yang.

Everything opens the mind if you let it, whether you are moving or stationary -- that's when the journey through life becomes creative. I write about such things, sometimes, but I don't stop for too long.

My work is always looking for new ways to escape -- newspapers, magazines, webzines, ad copy, web sites, motifs on toilet paper, etc. This site shows a few samples and includes an ongoing story of my alter ego: Vince.

Inspired? Annoyed? E-mail me with comments and suggestions. Contact me for an original article or story, or for research.

I am in England right now but will soon be on my way overseas again, travelling with a TRG-pro palm-top computer and tapping furiously on a Go-Type portable keyboard.

If you can read Chinese, check out our real-time creative journey through Indo-China at travel.mook.com.tw . Also read travel stories with a difference at Dust Travel by Peggy Chen

Paul S. Davey

e-mail [email protected]

Coming soon
a new short story:
-- Sinning With Suzie : A Confession

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