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Highlights of History:
All dates approximate

3.8-4 million years BC	First bipedal human, Ethiopia
2.4 - 3.4 million BC	Lucy, Australopithecus Afarensis
600,000-125,000 BCE	Middle Pleistocene
600,000-500,000	Paleolithic cultures
500,000 BCE	Peking Man, Java Man
125,000-12,000 BCE	Late Pleistocene
14,000 BCE	Asians migrate to North America
15-12,000 BCE	Start of Mesolithic in China, SW Asia
after 10,000 BCE	Start of Mesolithic in India, SE Asia
8,000-5,000 BCE	Start of Neolithic in China, SW Asia
5,000-4,000 BCE	Neolithic in SE Asia, Philipenes
3,500 BCE	Neolithic in India
3,000 BCE	Writing used in Mesopatamia, Sumeria
2300-1600 BCE	Indus Civilization
2,000 BCE	Bronze in China and SW Asia
1900-1600 BCE	First Babylonian Empire
1500-1200 BCE	Aryan invasion of India
1350-1334 BCE	Akhenaton decrees monotheism
1300 BCE	Moses leads his people out of Egypt
1200-1000 BCE	Rig Vedas composed
800-600 BCE	Upanishads composed
630-550 BCE	Life of Zoroaster
563- 483 BCE	Life of the Buddha
551-479 BCE	Life of Confucius
470-399 BCE	Life of Socrates
336-323 BCE	Alexander the Great
300BCE	Life of Lao-Tzu
500-200 BCE	Metalurgy to Phillipenes and Indonesia
329-139 BCE	Greeks in Bactria
274-236 BCE	Asoka (converts to Buddhism)
250 BCE	Bronze to Japan
221-207	Ch`in Dynasty in China
214	Great Wall of China begun
200 BCE	3rd Council dispatches missionaries to Ghandara, Bactria, and elseware...
180-160 BCE	Menander (Greek, converts to Buddism)
111 BCE	Han annexes North Vietnam
100 BCE-250AD	Yayoi (metal) period in Japan
40 BCE	Jimmu Tenno, first emperor of Japan
-4-29 AD	Jesus Christ [sic.]
100 AD	Buddhism Spreads to China; 4th Council precipitates split of Theravada (hinayana) and Mahayana Traditions
200	Buddhist Kingdoms in Thailand
312	Constantine converts to Christianity
330	First state sponsorship of Chinese Buddhism by Hunnish Jao dynasty.
372	Buddhism in Pyonyang, Korea
391	First Japanese invasion of Korea
401	Introduction of writing (kanji) to Japan
399-414	Fa Hsien travels to India to recover Vinaya
552	Buddhism is brought to Nara, Japan
571-632	Muhammad
604	Prince Shotoku establishes rule of law in Japan
617-907	T`ang Dynasty in China
629-645	Xuanzang travels to India, retrieves and translates many of the surviving Sutra of the Mahayana Canon into Middle Chinese
635	Buddhism spreads to Tibet
710-784	Nara is capital of Japan
711-715	Muslim Conquest of Spain
711	Umayyad Caliphate gains foothold in Ghandara
790	Wu K`ung Returns from Ghandara
794-1185	Establishment of Heiankyo (Kyoto) and the Heian Period in Japan
802-1431	Angkor Monarchy
805	Saicho returns from China, founds Tendai Sect
816	Kukai returns from China, founds Shingon Sect
842-45	Restrictions on Buddhism in China
850-1160	Fujiwara Regents control Imperial Household
894	Japan breaks off diplomatic relations with China
939	End of Chinese rule in Vietnam
960	Founding of Sung Dynasty in China
997-1030	Mahmud "the image breaker" of Ghazni declares Jihad, the rivers run red with blood in Punjab.
1008-1020	Tale of Genji written
1096-1099	The First Crusade
1194,1199	Varanasi, Bihar fall to Muhammud Ghori
1199	Buddhism is extinguished in India.
1206-1526	Delhi Sultanate
1206-1227	reign of Ghenghis Khan
1215-1294	Kublai Khan
1222-1282	Nichiren
1257-1284	Mongols in Vietnam
1275-1292	Marco Polo in China
1279-1368	Founding of Yuan Dynasty in China
1281	unsuccessful Mongol invasion of Japan due to typhoon coins the term Kamikaze (god-wind)
1356	Koreans overthrow Mongols
1368-1408	Yoshimitsu becomes third Shogun
1369-1405	Timur the Lame
1467-1477	Onin War burns everything in Japan
1483-1530	Babur, (the Tiger) with Timur on his father`s side and Ghenghis on his mother`s, founds the Mogul Empire
1492	Columbus sails the ocean blue
1500-1509	Portugese break Arab seapower
1521	Magellan reaches the Philippines
1542	Portugese reach Japan
1557	Portugese establish settlement in Macao
1568	Nobunaga Oda(1534-1582) seizes power
1571	Nobunaga burns Mount Hiei
1582	Nobunaga commits Harakiri
1590	Hideyoshi Toyotomi (1536-1598) takes over, unifies Japan
1592	Hideyoshi orders invasion of Korea
1598	Hideyoshi dies
1600	Tokugawa Iesu takes control of Japan, establishes 300 years of peace.
1853	Perry`s Black ships entered Tokyo Bay
1869	Meiji Restoration (of the emperor to power for the first time since the Heian Period)
1894-1895	Japan invades Korea... again. Sino-Japanese War
1914-1918	World War I
1939-1945	World War II
1950-1953,present	Korean War
1959-1975	Vietnam War
1992	First Persian Gulf War
1992	Hudson Graduates Highschool, goes to Appalachian State University.
1993	Hudsons`s First roadtrip, to Las Vegas from Charlotte driving a truck
1995, spring	Hudson drops out of school, becomes a hippie
1995, fall	Travels around the country by Amtrak
1996	Begins first real roadtrip in his car, GypC.
1997	Moves to Boulder, CO, enrolls in college.
1998, summer	Six Weeks in Europe
1999	Graduates, Travels to India
2000	Returns from India to Seattle
2002, September	Terrorists win, Hudson loses job at IT startup
2002	Six weeks in Thailand
2003, February	Lives under a tree in Berkeley, CA
2003	America invades Iraq
2003-2005	Hudson moves to Japan
2004, Spring	3 weeks in China with Mom
2004, Fall	3 weeks in Europe with Dad
2005, June-July	3 weeks in America
2005, July	Returns to India, fulfilling promise to self.
2005, August	Travelling in the Parvati Valley
2005, September	travelled through Spiti and then to Varanasi
2005, October	Studied Sitar in Varanasi for a month
2005, Nov	Flying from Calcutta to Bombay
2005, Nov 4th	Meeting up with Julie in Cambodia
2005, December	Flying to Charlotte for five months
2006, April	Hudson becomes an uncle
2006, May 2	On the road yet again
2006, June 1	fly to Dublin, cross Eurasia
2006, second week of june	. took ferry to Wales,  climbed over tallest mountain.  Hitchhiked through rural Wales Public House to Public House, sleeping in sheep pastures, on the beaches, beside roaring rivers, and, outside Frome on the way to Stonehenge, in a ditch ..
2006 third week in June	Portsmouth to Le Havre by ferry, to Paris,
	Paris to Prague to Slovakia
	Slovakia to Poland
	Poland to Lithuania.
	A couple weeks in Lithuania.
	Lithuania, Latvia, Moscow
	Moscow to Irkutsk, four days by train
	Irkutsk to Baikal.  A few days hiking
	Back to Irkustsk.   Something about a girl.
	Irkutsk to Mongolia, several days staring at the walls in Ulaan Bataar, utterly exhausted.
	Jeep ordeal crossing the Mongolia-China border
	? to ? to ? to the Shaolin Temple, accidentally roped into a package tour.  Luckily.
	Shaolin to Qing Dao.
	Quing Dao to Incheon to Seoul
	ran out of money... switched to credit. (still on credit)
	Hiked a treacherous trail, climbed one of the tallest mountains in the country, hotspring, back to Seoul, somewhat exhausted and dispirited
	Seoul t oVancouver.
Sept 21 ish , 2006	Arrived in Seattle via Vancouver and Victoria and the Olympic Hotsprings.   Spent a week looking for a job in Seattle.  It rained all week.   Decided to be a Ski Bum instead.
Oct 3rd ish	In Conneticut working with Matt, took job as lift operator in Telluride.
October 30th, 2006	Arrived Telluride to be a lift operator.
April 11th, 2007	Last day on the mountain... with absolutely epic powder.  18" of fresh in the trees, 12" on the slopes, Six lifites with the mountain to themselves...  Running the lift for our own laps.  And they brought us in pizza by snowmobile.
April 12, 2007	Left Colorado for Moab. two hotsprings and a blizzard later...
April 14th	Arrived san francisco, put stuff in storage.
April 21st	Attended Beth`s wedding in Seattle
April	Arrived in Charlotte, played with my neice Samantha, built coffeeshop bar in Boone.
May 6th, 2007	Arrives in San francisco, stays at hostel, which hooks him up.
May 25th, 2007	signs year lease in shared flat
May 26th, 2007	moves into new apartment
May 28th, 2007	Hudson starts work... as a journeyman carpenter.

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Welcome to my website!   This sight is maintained by and is © Hudson Cress.  Here you will find my travel writing and photography from five years of wanderings.   I`ve also collected a few hundred books, concentrating on Buddhist and Asian Philosophy, but with additional travel writing of a more historical nature.  I`ve also included a section on research into philosophical topics, which may be of marginal use to someone other than myself.  Finally, you`ll find a section of mildly entertaining rants under the writing section. 

I hope you find this website entertaining, if not helpful.   Feel free to email me at hudsoncress@yahoo.com with any questions, or to strike up a dialogue.  

So now I`m living in San Francisco working as a carpenter.   My street address is around 18th Ave and Irving. Note the pond with the mountain in the middle.  This is iconic throughout the Pacific rim.  Here it`s the Olmstead brothers` doing.

My Mailing address is:
237 Kearny St. #182
San Francisco, CA 94108

my phone number is:
415-612-0242
p.s. if you know Ed, please have him give his old phone number a call, and let me know his new phone number, so I can redirect his friends.

After a few weeks looking for office work, and a couple interviews and recruiting sessions, I made a sensible decision and took a job as a carpenter, when the opportunity presented itself.  Now I`m doing remodelling work, and loving every minute of it.   I had a call the other day from a recruiter offering me a desktop support position.   With a framing hammer in one hand, and a cellphone in the other, I declined.  Who knows where all of this may lead.   But if I have my way, there is one scenario I`m leaning toward:

Mission Statement: To buy, rent, or otherwise acquire exclusive use of a Mad Scientist`s laboratiory within one year.  Thence, to build a robot army, and then, to take over the world... metaphorically speaking. However, mark your calenders for the summer solstice 2012 to join us for the Groundbreaking of the Wizard`s Tower.  Be there June 21, 2012.  Location TBA. Bring tools and supplies. We will be clearing land, and milling trees into lumber, to be stacked for three years curing.  Details will be forthcoming. 

Have fun!