A sign on the door of the small shack of one yatiri, Jorge Sharon, summed it up thusly: "For love, travel, marriage, health, legal problems, making lost things appear, duty inspections, exams at the teacher's college".
While they have money, travel, educations, marriages, motherhood and de rigeur chauffeurs, they haven't the most basic element of what thrills me, even in congested traffic: the freedom to move unimpeded.
Marital travel, like marriage itself, involves compromise.
Why should there be so many men staying abroad and so few women, given that work, study, travel and marriage in foreign countries attract both sexes more or less equally?
Prices paid ranged from $20 (two 1930s calendars slightly chewed by insects) to $190 (an assortment of travel notebooks, marriage records, and scribbled poems dated from 1899 to 1952).
Likewise his ruminations on his travels, his marriage and Senator John Kerry's presidential candidacy.
When two marriages travel together, they tend to be on their best honeymoon behavior.
Gay marriage travel has contributed significantly to this trend.
When he became a man, firefighting seemed out of reach: A sales position required him to travel frequently and marriage brought twin boys and new responsibilities.
Yet in relating seemingly autobiographical, spryly digressive sagas about work, marriage, travel and even the joys of mediocre movies, Kirby makes the narrative poem -- a form often proclaimed to be outdated -- amusing, lively and relevant enough for contemporary tastes.
