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

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

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

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

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

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

Day Cruise from Fort Lauderdale to Freeport, Bahamas. Winter 1990. Cruise to nowhere, literally Thirty years ago, time share companies...

Feddan Park, Tetouan, Morocco. December 2019 Fish Tagine, El Reducto Restaurant, Tetouan, Morocco. December 25, 2019 Christmas in the...

.. Somewhere between Spain and Morocco, Strait of Gibraltar. December 2019 Passing between worlds without seasickness and a little help...

Calle Segismundo Moret, Tarifa, Spain. December 2019 Misiana Hotel and Restaurant, Tarifa, Spain. December 2019 The end of Europe The...

Rock of Gibraltar behind me, Algeciras, Spain. December 2019 The slow train to Green Island The plane landed late enough in Madrid that...

Dubai Frame from Zabeel Park. December 2018 Build it and they will come On visits to Dubai over the years, MWK and I took the metro to...

Helix Bridge, Dubai Canal. December 2018 Never say never - more questions than answers I imagine if I had been in Dubai 20 years ago...

View from Kaser Al Amwaj, Abu Dhabi, UAE. December 2010 Two snapshots In the Jakarta years, Brian and I traveled back to the US via...

Via Latina, Rome. November 2016 [From FB Post: December 3, 2016] Once again, FB friends and family, thank you for patiently bearing...

Burj Khalifa, Dubai. December 2010 -est After expectations, superlatives might be the next most dangerous thing in life. Post...

Casina Vanvitellania, Lago Fusaro, Naples. December 2018 The benefits of wandering I finished visiting the Baths of Baiae west of Naples...

Dubai Marina, UAE. November 2019 Build it and they will come On my first visit to Dubai, now 11 years ago, Dubai Marina astounded me. ...

Column of Marcus Aurelius, Piazza Colonna, Rome. November 2016 How Marcus helped me survive Ramadan in Saudi Arabia By day three in...

Vatican Museum. November 2016. Of managed expectations - almost Without a doubt, the Vatican Museum is in the "top museums" I have ever...