Back garden, our house, Milford 2003 [from FB post: May 5, 2010] I mow my lawn with a push mower. You would think I was burning a flag...

King Fahd Fountain, Jeddah. January 2017 [from FB post: April 23, 2017] Notes from Saudi Arabia: There was a royal decree last night that...

National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC December 2021 “And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain...

Environmental Protection Agency, Constitution Avenue December 2021 An old love affair gone sour In my childhood seeing the Federal...

Exchange Place, Jersey City, NJ October 2008 [from FB post: July 12, 2010] Back from a great day in Jersey City with old college chum...

Thalia Street, Riyadh. December 2017 [from FB post: April 18, 2014] I just saw the religious police here arrest two men and take them...

Old City, Colmar, France. March 1993 On the visit to Strasbourg, France on Matt's First Great German Adventure, we drove south a short...

Ofelia Restaurant and Cafe, Duhok, Iraq. April 2019 [from FB post: April 6, 2019] On the topic of "don't judge too quickly" I was having...

Danaudurchbruch bei Weltenburg, Bavaria, Germany. 1996 On another of Matt's Great German Adventures (the first spawned two more visits),...

Amarah Fort, Najran. December 2016 Najran has two old palace/fort complexes, Amarah and Saadane. Saadane was closed to visitors when...

WMF's Balcony. June 2020 How did I make it through the worst of the COVID lockdowns? Luckily, in Duhok, Iraq there were very few...

Mia-gao Church, Panay Island, Philippines. January 2016 Santo Tomás de Villanueva Parish Church was actually the inspiration for my...

Daigo-ji, Kyoto. January 2012 On our last ever vacation we were in Kansai, Japan and had the rich bounty of Japanese history to choose...

Al Masqawi Village, Asir. December 2015 Al Masqawi Village, Asir. December 2015 Interior Painting. Aal Al Jimal Village, Asir. ...

Cordoba Gate San Pedro Church, Carmona, Spain. January 2017 Anyone based in Seville looking for good day trips will come across Carmona....

Millenium Biltmore Hotel, Los Angles, CA. April 1990 The start of something big Back in the early '90s, law school students from the Ivy...

Harbour Bridge, Sydney, NSW, Australia. January 1993 "Time, time, time - look what's become of me" - Hazy Shade of Winter (Simon &...

Mosque, Farasan Island, Jizan. December 2013 [from FB post: December 20, 2013] ... this is the FIRST mosque I have been in in KSA -- it...

Biplane ride over Key West. Winter 1990. Aerial Joy Ride I don't know if I can count my first trip to Key West as a true travel memory...

Sunset, River Esplanade, Iloilo. January 2016 After Roxas City [see: Roxas City], JRC and I were based in Iloilo for a few days exploring...