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...

Bakalan, Central Java. March 1997 My friends in Bakalan, right on the border of Central and East Java, told me that there would be a...

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

ancient, transplanted olive trees! Latte with cardamom. March 2017 you say prison, I say five-star hotel On one of my trips to Riyadh,...

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...

Parc, Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia. July 2010 Kelle H. BEGGED me to go to Philly for Valentine's weekend one February during the...

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...

July 2019 In the 6th grade we took a class trip to Washington, DC. We saw the museums, the Capitol, and walked around on the Mall, but...

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...

March 2014 A strange legacy Tea is from China and the Chinese had a stranglehold on the world market for centuries. The British found...

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...