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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...

Bahamas: Freeport

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

Morocco: Christmas in Tetouan

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

Crossing the Strait of Gibraltar

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

Spain: Tarifa

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

Spain: Algeciras

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

UAE: The Frame, Dubai

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...

UAE: Dubai Canal

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

UAE: Abu Dhabi

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...

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"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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