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Oman: Al Baleed, Salalah

Old Cemetery near Al Baleed Archeological site, Salalah. March 2016 View from Al Baleed Archeological site, Salalah. March 2016 Al...

USA: Sparrowbush, New York

Hawk's Nest, New York October 2005 After moving to Milford, PA from Hoboken, NJ we slowly got to know some of the local attractions. ...

Malaysia: Penang seawall

Georgetown, Penang. January 2011 First glimpse of my future The place I am sitting means a lot to me because it was the first place I...

Morocco: Rick's Cafe

Rick's Cafe, Casablanca, Morocco. December 31, 2019. Memes-as-life New Year's Eve in Casablanca, how exotic. Not really. I have never...

New Zealand: Tandem parasailing

Just before takeoff, above Queenstown, South Island, New Zealand. January 1993 Parasailing view, Lake Wakatipu, Queenstown, South...

Spain: Arcos de la Frontera

Old City street Arcos de la Frontera, Andalucia, Spain. January 2017 I heard about it.... My friend Adrian Fernandes Vara de Rey in...

Philippines: Roxas City

Cathedral, Roxas City, Panay. Angel clams. Coco Veranda Restaurant, Roxas City Beach, Panay. January 2016 Old Capiz Panay Island is a...

Spain: Cadiz

Paseo Santa Barbara, Cadiz, Spain. January 2017 On the first trip to Andalucia, I based myself in Seville. Cadiz was on my list of...

USA: Maryland Heights

Maryland Heights, Maryland. November 1987 Favorite place, favorite photo I think we all have favorite photos of ourselves and this is...

Philippines: General Santos City

taken from amazon .com February 2022 [from FB post: February 16, 2012] General Santos City, Philippines. Tuna capital of the...

Jerusalem: Church of the Holy Sepulchre

Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Old Walled City, Jerusalem. June 2016 Ground Zero For years I had observed other people's pilgrimages with...

India: Indira Gandhi Bridge

Indira Gandhi Bridge to Pamban Island, Tamil Nadu. January 2015 Railway bridge to Pamban Island viewed from the Indira Gandhi Bridge,...

India: Dhanushkodi Beach

Dhanushkodi Beach, Pamban Island January 2015 Wiped from the face of the earth.... Dhanushkodi Beach was actually just the whipped cream...

UAE: Aroos Damascus, Dubai

Veggies before the main. December 2019 Meat! Aroos Damascus, Muraqqabat, Dubai. January 2019 A visit to Dubai for me includes a few...

Malaysia: Eastern and Oriental Hotel

E&O Hotel, Penang, Malaysia. December 2005 My favorite Armenian brothers I thought my love affair with the Sarkies brothers hotels...

Bangladesh: getting a visa

Arrival to Bangladesh - third visit. January 2022 [from FB post: December 29, 2011] Tiger Airways is having a sale on tickets to Dhaka,...

Spain: Loja

Loja, Spain with snowy Sierra Nevada Mountains behind. January 2018 [From FB post: January 16, 2018] Saved by an angel After having...

Spain: historical reckoning

Memorial to the Expulsion of Muslims, Antequera, Spain. January 2018 No hard feelings The Muslims took the Iberian peninsula in just...

Costa Rica: Cahuita

THIS IS INCLUDED IN A LARGER POST ON THE ENTIRE COSTA RICA TRIP [see: before it was famous] Cahuita Beach, Costa Rica. December 1990...

Morocco: Ibn Battuta's Tomb

Tomb of Ibn Battuta, Tangier, Morocco. December 2019 One of my heroes [from: Encylopedia Britannica] In Egypt, where he arrived by the...

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Observations of Life

"A stone with no moss" has been my motto.  My experiences and commentary from travels both near and far.  No hate, unfiltered.

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