If my memory serves me correctly, you are celebrating 4th of July in Royal Oak with all your buddies and packing light for a midweek flight to India and Nepal. It's time for the annual odyssey of Barry Tallent. This 4th finds me in McKinney, Texas taking a break after a week working at 7-11 headquarters in midtown Dallas. The State of Texas advertises itself as a different country, and I believe them. I'm in a century old brick building, drinking Ozarka spring water that everyone drinks around here, enjoying a private concert from a guitarist who has just setup his gear, tuned up and started to perform. Life is good.
You came to mind as I read my afternoon news. The Beijing - Lhasa Express train has set out on its maiden journey this Saturday, and I know that this express train is going to change forever the Tibet of gentle people and Buddhist temples forever, the country you documented two years ago, I believe. I've clipped a bit of the article for you. It takes almost three full days to go from Detroit to San Francisco on train, the California Flyer most of the way. The Beijing - Lhasa express requires only 2 days to go from China's capital to Lhasa ! Amazing !
I dropped by early at the Oak Street Grille that day, hoping to see the exhibit on the cheap. I was driving to Dallas that upcoming Thursday, so conserving money was key. I admired the planned setup. As the owner explained to me, probably a buddy of yours, you were setting up the framed pictures on the wall-end of those high tables. I like how that makes the viewing of your pictures an event, special and of short duration. It takes a little freshness out of an exhibition when it hangs on walls for four weeks without you to explain the images and without a party to celebrate them.
My question is this: did Liz Martinez help you set it up? She's famous for nifty wine parties for singles and interesting people in chic Detroit restaurants. I've gone to a few up in Troy. She hangs out at Tom's from time to time, when she's not holding court with her many friends, all stunningly beautiful, up at Mon Jin Lau in Troy or McCormick & Schmick's next to Somerset. It just looked like a Liz Martinez event.
Travel safe, Barry, and when I return to Detroit, I'll look for the new photos somewhere in town.
Wilbo Juntunen [Wilbo is a great name south of Dixie]
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From Yahoo News:
Tibetan children watch as the first train from Lhasa Railway Station travels on the Tibetan grasslands near Lhasa, Tibet, Saturday, July 1, 2006. China on Saturday opened the first train service to Tibet on the world's highest railway, a controversial engineering marvel meant to bind the restive Himalayan region to China. (AP Photo/Color China Photo)
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