Chile: Puerto Natales
February 2001 After a very long boat ride through the Chilean fjords of Patagonia - a very similar trip to the Inside Passage of Canada...
Canada: skating on the Rideau Canal
February 1990 slow learner My favorite part of the Sunday New York Times was the Travel Section and I anxiously awaited it each week. ...
Czech Republic: Castle Hill at Night, Prague
July 2019 I had watched the late afternoon glow on the Charles Bridge and then die as the lights slowly re-illuminated the statues of the...
Vienna: Hofburg Palace
April 2019 The first visit to the Hofburg in 1987 I was amazed. That initial trip to Europe was a series of "wow" moments, but also...
China: Palace Museum, Beijing
April 1998 The Forbidden City Only foreigners call the Palace Museum the "Forbidden City". To the Chinese it is the "Palace Museum" in...
Lebanon: Corniche, Beirut
June 2019 Transformation of meanings A word I came to know while working in the Middle East was "corniche". Clearly a French word, I...
Jordan: As Salt
Bazaar June 2016 A very strange set of circumstances led me to As Salt. It all started in Diriyah, Riyadh on a visit with AQ when we...
Spain: Roman Amphitheatre of Sagunto
January 2020 over-renovated On my trip to Valencia, one of the day trips planned was to Sagunto to see its Roman amphitheatre. The trip...
Netherlands: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
July 2017 I was day tripping into Amsterdam from Amersfoort, seeing chunks of the city as time and weather permitted. The day I was in...
Sri Lanka: Galle
December 2003 saved by colonialism Brian and I had come out of the misty tea mountains of Sri Lanka and headed toward beautiful Galle, a...
Laos: Luang Prabang
August 2007 Luang Prabang. The only thing we knew about it was that it had a lot of old temples. That would have been the...
Czech Republic: Velká synagoga, Plzeň
July 2019 I decided to explore Pilsen after my delicious beer and lunch on the town square [see: Plzeň]. The old city center was not...
Slovakia: Komárno
City Hall Bridge over the Danube to Komárom, Hungary Nádvorie Európy. July 2019 vestiges of an empire Komárno was an easy day trip by...
West Bank: Dead Sea
June 2018 [from FB post: June 22, 2016] Hope At the beach on the Dead Sea. Everyone is wearing what they want, doing what they like, and...
Oman: Muscat
Darsait Viewpoint Qurm Beach Qurm Natural Park Qurm Natural Park Qurm Natural Park. March 2016 [from FB post: March 11, 2016] Muscat...
England: Lisboa Patisserie, London
April 2012 Pastéis de nata Pastéis de nata were created before the 18th century by Catholic monks at the Mosteiro dos Jerónimos in the...
Australia: Darwin
November 2004 My final visit to Australia was to the rarely visited "top end". We were exploring Kakadu National Park and other famous...
Malaysia: Rafflesia, Kinabalu Park, Sabah
jungle trek Rafflesia. February 1997 We were actually staying at the swank 5-star Tanjung Aru Resort when we visited Kota Kinabalu. The...
New Zealand: Southern Alps
January 1993 When the world finally "discovered" New Zealand via the movies, I was not surprised. On my visit the country very much...
Puerto Rico: a lot of firsts
March 1981 Sophomore year at Georgetown held a lot of new adventures for me. I was a member of the "French House" on campus, which was...
