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...

In good news today, Kartik, my Bangla barber re opened his shop. He had to close due to a licensing issue... and in other VERY good news,...

WMF sees the sea for the first time, the Corniche in Beirut. June 2019 I can't even imagine not having seen the sea until my mid-20s,...

Old Port Plaza Mayor Castelo de Santo Anton City Beach. July 2016 A Coruña is located at the very northwestern tip of the Iberian...

Old city walls Al-Jazzar Mosque. June 2018 My time in Israel was too short. I underestimated just how many things there were to see...

Yarmouk River with Golan Heights behind (note the border fence) Cave and fresh water pool Cave dining. June 2017 On top of the high...

Amazon Theatre, Manaus. August 2000. As part of our second trip to Brazil, which was all about the rainforest, we stopped off in Manaus...

August 2018 On my first trip to Belgium, I originally planned to stay in Brussels and just do day trips around the country since every...