houseboat one of many canals. February 2010 Houseboat - Kerala backwaters -- we did this for 3 days. Kind of nice, but not as...

near Maharajalela Station Station Entrance at KL Sentral. June 2015 From new, to normal, to retro When we lived in Jakarta and...

September 2015 Frankish language area (Wikipedia) Charlemagne. Karl der Große. Charles the Great. Father of modern Europe....

September 2015 How is it that little Belgium holds two of Europe's most phenomenal train stations? Near the Dutch border in the north is...

Freedom of the Seas. May 2010 This is my only photo of Labadee, Haiti apparently. I guess it all was pretty blurry since we were on a...

December 2018 Gates of Hell Lake Avernus according to the Romans was one of the entrances to Hades. The small circular lake sits in the...

NJ Transit, Hoboken Station, New Jersey. July 2010 People forget that back in the day, New York City had THREE major railway stations: ...

Bus from Baghdad Duhok Zoo. September 2018 [from FB post: September 7, 2018] The Bus to Normal People come to Duhok from all over Iraq...

Győri Kármelhegyi Boldogasszony templom. April 2019 One of the day trips from Vienna was to Győr, Hungary. I never heard of the town,...

Ex-Malayan Railway, Singapore to Malaysia (and beyond). July 2016 Ex-colleague from Japan days, Bill Purver, loved to point out that...

グラバー園. March 1985 I left my heart in Nagasaki... Tony Bennett may have left his heart in San Francisco (a part of mine, too), but I bet...

Hausmannsturm Semperoper Fürstenzug Anleger der Elbdampfschiffahrt. July 2019 [from FB post: October 19, 2019] I visited East Germany in...

The Three Rondavels. July 1998 The Drakensberg Mountains are actually an escarpment that divides part of eastern South Africa into the...

Graduation, King Khalid University. April 2016 [from FB post: September 9, 2013] I had my first classes today. Overall the students are...

Balcony of the Peace Hotel, the Bund, Shanghai. April 1998 The Bund, Shanghai. April 1998 What to do with inconvenient history I am...

Kovalam Beach sunset. February 2010 [from FB post: September 7, 2013] Since FB chat tells you WHERE someone is chatting from, I finally...

July 2017 June 2019 I never even heard of Caribou Coffee before I went to Dubai. However, in a hotel with bad breakfast, the attached...

The beach Road to Cassandra's Hotel/Restaurant. June 2016 Lemonade from Lemons? I was in Dumaguete as part of my trip through the...

Dalat Cathedral Dalat Station Dalat cable car view. December 2007 My elementary and junior high school memories are filled with...

Pagoda Tea Room Fort area Galle Face Green. December 2003 I loved Sri Lanka, but Colombo was "meh". We visited the island nation just...