PROLOGUE Law school is hard. I saw Brian sacrifice a lot to make it through Columbia with high marks while working on a high-profile...

March 2015 Getting it right, for a price Souq Waqaf is the "traditional souq" (market) for tourists in Doha. If traditional Qatari life...

Zambian side Zimbabwean side Whitewater rafting. July 1996 When we were planning our trip to Southern Africa, friends who had traveled...

Train Station Town Square. March 2019 almost, but not quite Bratislava is in the extreme western corner of Slovakia which means that...

Original Starbucks near Pike Place Market. October 2011 coffee ground zero I grew up in a family that did not drink coffee. Mom was a...

August 2020 better than I remembered On my first trip to Istanbul with Brian in 1991 [see: Istanbul to Kushinagar (part I)], one of the...

Porto. July 2016 the little Frenchie Some cities have a food that is de rigueur - a cheesesteak sandwich in Philadelphia, champon in...

Roasted agave heart. Distillation. October 2011 We were on a cruise to Cabo and Puerto Vallarta from San Diego. As part of the shore...

Old, unrenovated building Restored building with wind tower. March 2015 My few days in Bahrain were very full even though the tiny...

Astronomical Clock. Old City Square. July 2019 [from FB post: October 5, 2019] I'm starting to post my summer photos. You know, I...

Photobombed. March 2015. the taxi driver who fell in love with me Even though Oman was great, it was like Saudi Arabia in that it had...

Why Belgium? My colleague in Saudi, WBT, had done a yoga retreat in Ghent the summer before and raved about the city. Additionally I...

La Rogativa. January 1982 May 2010 May 2010 In My Old San Juan - Noel Estrada (Trans.) In my old San Juan how many dreams I forge in my...

January 1993 names in high places On the NZ vacation after meeting MAP on the West Coast riding the Kiwi Experience bus [see: Lake...

City Hall Fish and Chips. August 2016 A wealthy dot One of the provinces of the Netherlands is Zeeland, a couple of fingers of land...

Harbor ha ha ha ha random temple somewhere in Hong Kong. December 2008 Back to Hong Kong When I lived in Japan and traveled regionally,...

December 2019 burial rituals Morocco had a vibrant Jewish community for centuries. The Jews were expelled from Spain alongside Muslims...

July 2019 Karlsbad After the fall of the Iron Curtain there were two places in then Czechoslovakia I wanted to visit - Pilsen and...

houseboat one of many canals. February 2010 Houseboat - Kerala backwaters -- we did this for 3 days. Kind of nice, but not as...

near Maharajalela Station Station Entrance at KL Sentral. June 2015 From new, to normal, to retro When we lived in Jakarta and...