SugarCube's Insomniac Asylum

In response to your response to “bobturn” I have written quite a few stories about places I’ve never been. I was in Japan in the early 1960’s, 15 years after the wars end and saw massive destruction. Once over 2 miles of sunken, rusty hulks of ships that lined the entry channel to the harbor. I never got to either of the atomic bomb sites, but I met a young woman at a museum that had scars on her shoulder from the blast in Hiroshima. I’ve written several stories about meeting ghosts from both sites. Yes, a lot of research.

Many other places too that I’ve never been, but always hours to days of web research about the locations, hotels, housing, food and places to eat, but mostly about the people that live there. I’ve found in my travels around the world and living in places like Germany, the Soviet Union and Japan once I accept that the people are the same and just a little different in how they approach the same basic problems I do it’s easy to enjoy myself. I love all the differences in people.

Admittedly some cultures are very difficult for me to accept. Mostly those that promote and enforce rigid class structures. I’m starting to get very worried about our, the U.S., class structuring and “Royal Families.”