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Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America

By: Steven David Justin Sills

...nged her mind and decided to buy an airline ticket to Jakarta. Arriving on a garuda (GA flight 543), she ensconced herself in a hotel room long enough... ...eautiful hair. She contrasted the two and was fascinated by this attempt of Indonesian society to allow women to be modern as long as they stayed dem... ...al to their jobs in San Ysidro or San Diego; and from there, like a beggarly Indonesian caricature artist instead of the successful artist that she wa... ...he sliced off an ice cap of a mountain of soap and it flew toward her like a garuda. Yes, she told herself, "I will fly on Garuda Indonesia Airlines ... ...flew toward her like a garuda. Yes, she told herself, "I will fly on Garuda Indonesia Airlines and mingle with common people of Jakarta -- paint the... ...ch with its own provincial language; the provincial languages, Javanese, and Indonesian all spoken in Java; those calls to prayer from distant mosques... ...NYou left me positing the possibility of going there but now I am in Bandung Indonesia and planning to go deep into the jungles. My choice only, as a...

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