Cape Byron, New South Wales, Australia April 2006 On the Brisbane trip to Australia, one of the highlights of that journey was to be...

Spotti Cafe, Alassio. February 2019 It was late February on the Ligurian coast so I really couldn't hope for balmy weather. Based in...

Amwaj Island, Bahrain. March 2015 Final hours in Bahrain I started my short time in Bahrain with my Saudi friends from Abha, but ended...

Longhouse, Batang Ai, Sarawak, Malaysia. February 1997 Headhunters!!! On the Big Borneo Adventure we ended up at a Hilton property in...

Abha from Nahran Mountain. December 24, 2013 [from FB post: May 12, 2014] I don't know what to make of Saudi Arabia in terms of...

High speed rail terminus, Station Casa-Voyageurs, Casablanca, Morocco. December 2019 The Casa-Voyageurs Railway Station was directly...

Palacsinta, Baross Gábor utca, Györ, Hungary. April 2019 [from FB post: May 16, 2019] "Palatschinke" - this brought back great memories ...

From the Albertina Collection, Vienna. May 2019 Lalish Yazidi Temple, Duhok Province June 2020 [from FB post: May 3, 2019] Revan At...

Cathedral of St Peter and St Paul, Brno, Czech Republic. April 2019 Pivovar Lucky Bastard, Brno. April 2019 When I was kid, I think in...

Candi Sewu, Central Java, Indonesia. April 2016 The Prambanan Plain under the ever-erupting Mt Merapi in Java is strewn with temples. ...

Latte macchiato, Mediterraneo, Quartiere la Venezia Fortezza Vecchia Fried Calamari, Il Chiosco del Porto February 2019 Leghorn Leave...

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 ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened.” - Doug Coupland [from FB post: April 26, 2019] It is taking a lot of time

Environmental Protection Agency, Constitution Avenue December 2021 An old love affair gone sour In my childhood seeing the Federal Triangle meant we were just a stone's throw from the Smithsonian Museums. Those massive Greco-Roman columns for me as a kid on a trip to the capital from rural Pennsylvania were awe inspiring. In later years as a college student, I continued to love the severity of those facades. They stood for so much it seemed - democracy and order at the v

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),...