March 2016 Walking around the palace in Muscat [see: palace] these two old forts came into view, Al Jalali on an island and Al Mirani on...

Beit Betek, Abha. January 2017 [from FB post: October 26, 2013] Invited to dinner by colleagues last night (non American). "What would...

Jim Mack's Ice Cream, Hallam Township. June 2018 [from FB post: August 23, ,2012] My very good news for the day. Back in May, my Mom...

Newport Bridge. July 1979 Newport Harbor. July 1979 The Rose. July 1979 Bowen's Wharf. July 1979 Cliffwalk. July 1979 The Breakers -...

Dubai Marina. October 2013 [from FB post: October 19. 2013] Different points of view.... but still enjoying the same scenery. I remember...

Pennsylvania Railroad World War II Memorial. November 2021 How odd to say that I have passed through the station over a hundred times...

Applebee's, Jizan. December 2013 [from FB post: October 17, 2016] I have just learned I am now to be paid on the 5th day of the Islamic...

September 2008 Don't touch the water! With water from the stream Galadriel filled the basin to the brim, and breathed on it, and when the...

Mmmmm.... appetizers! at Roberto's. October 2013 Italian in Dubai Before Eataly opened a branch in Dubai, I craved some authentic...

NEPAL (October 1991) The bus from Gorakhpur to the Nepali border at Sonauli was disgusting. Very local, there was no other option. Even...

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...