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York County: Glatfelter Station

York Heritage Trail, near Glatfelter Station, York County. January 2021 Following the ancestor The sections of the York Heritage Rail...

Al Ula: Lion Tombs

Lion Tombs, Al Ula. December 2017 The Dadanites, the Lihyanites, the Romans, the Nabateans On the Black and White Volcanoes Adventure...

Bangladesh: bananas

Agora Supermarket, Panchlaish, Chittagong. February 2022 [from FB post: February 16, 2012] -- General Santos City, Philippines The...

Thaipusam

Thaipusam, Serangoon Road, Little India. January 2014 Voyeurism Thaipusam is a Tamil Hindu festival celebrating Lord Murugan. I look...

Philippines: General Santos City

taken from amazon .com February 2022 [from FB post: February 16, 2012] General Santos City, Philippines. Tuna capital of the...

Farasan Island: Traditional Village Museum

Wealthy merchant's house, Traditional Museum, Al Qasser, Farasan Island, Jizan. December 2020 Museum-ish The Farasan Islands are just...

Jerusalem: Church of the Holy Sepulchre

Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Old Walled City, Jerusalem. June 2016 Ground Zero For years I had observed other people's pilgrimages with...

India: Indira Gandhi Bridge

Indira Gandhi Bridge to Pamban Island, Tamil Nadu. January 2015 Railway bridge to Pamban Island viewed from the Indira Gandhi Bridge,...

Nasi Padang

Nasi Padang, Christmas Lunch. December 2012 Two faces of "nasi padang" Nasi padang should not be translated directly to English since it...

India: Dhanushkodi Beach

Dhanushkodi Beach, Pamban Island January 2015 Wiped from the face of the earth.... Dhanushkodi Beach was actually just the whipped cream...

UAE: Aroos Damascus, Dubai

Veggies before the main. December 2019 Meat! Aroos Damascus, Muraqqabat, Dubai. January 2019 A visit to Dubai for me includes a few...

Duhok: snow day

Rooftop View, Duhok. February 2020 Zawa Mountain from my rooftop, Duhok. February 2020. [from FB post: February 11, 2020] Three inches...

Al Ula: Madain Saleh

Qasr Al Farid, Hegra, Medina Province. December 2017. The second city of the Nabateans There are always some travel "holy grail" places....

Columbia: St Charles Furnace

St Charles Furnace, Columbia (Northwest Lancaster River Trail). January 2021 Near the start of the Northwest Lancaster County River...

Kobe: shabu-shabu

Shabu-shabu in Kobe. January 2012 Shabuuu Shabuuu, you can hear it The Japanese love onomonpoeic words. "Shabu shabu" - thinly sliced...

Duhok: Ofelia

Vegetarian pizza, Ofelia, Geshtiyar, Duhok. January 2019 Geshtiyar (Kurmanji Kurdish: the tourist) and the others One of the first...

Diriyah, Riyadh

Diriyah, Riyadh. December 201y [from FB post: December 19.2014] Today I visited Diriyah, the original village of the House of Saud. It...

Library of Congress

Great Hall, Library of Congress. September 2021 My favorite American building The grand design of the library's Thomas Jefferson...

Duhok: Flag Mountain

Flag Mountain, Duhok. April 2019 Climbing Flag Mountain with Taha My shoes finally wore out in Duhok with all the walking I had done. I...

Jewish Quarter

Selegie Road. January 2014. In the 2010's I stayed on and off in an apartment under Mount Sophia just behind Selegie Road during some of...

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Observations of Life

"A stone with no moss" has been my motto.  My experiences and commentary from travels both near and far.  No hate, unfiltered.

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