Saudi Sambosa. Image: But First Chai [from FB post: December 31, 2016] The Sambosa Shop Saudi Arabia is far more multi-cultural than...

Staten Island Ferry. Late Summer 1988 Working Boy The iconic views of lower Manhattan taken from the Staten Island Ferry set to Carly...

Teahouse view, Duhok Dam. September 2018 Running from a teahouse to an accident: why I never drove a car in Iraq For my first few months...

Rex Food Stall, Tekka Center, Little India. December 2012 Nasi Goreng Ikan Bilis. December 2012. [from FB post: December 27, 2012] So I...

Apple Store (ex Carnegie Library), Mt Vernon Square. December 2021 Gutted Andrew Carnegie built libraries across the United States with...

THIS IS INCLUDED IN A LARGER POST ON THE ENTIRE COSTA RICA TRIP [see: before it was famous] Cahuita Beach, Costa Rica. December 1990...

Looking up from the Northwest Lancaster County River Trail. December 2020 A place to return to (the curse of potato bugs...

Al Jehl Museum, Asir. December 2015 [from FB post: December 31, 2013] Things you learn in other places. Do you know that most of my...

Macy's Parade, Broadway above Times Square. November 1988 Newcomers to NYC definitely have a punch list of things they want to...

Zawa Mountain, Duhok. August 2018 How Zawa Mountain saved me during the pandemic lockdowns Duhok City sits in a mountain valley in the...

Dim sum, Ion Orchard. December 2018 Cantonese Breakfast "Dim sum", or more correctly "yum cha", is the brunchy collection of small...

Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institute. December 2021 American Indian Portraits, George Catlin, National Portrait Gallery. August 2017...

Tomb of Ibn Battuta, Tangier, Morocco. December 2019 One of my heroes [from: Encylopedia Britannica] In Egypt, where he arrived by the...

Union Canal Tunnel, Lebanon. December 2020 [from FB post: December 15,2020] An engineering marvel in its time (1828) it was only used...

Tuwaiq Escarpment, Route 80, Riyadh-Taif Road. December 2014 [from FB post: December 19,2014] Also I visited the Tuwaiq Escarpment on...

Kevorkian Center, New York University. September 1988 How I got a job one day in New York City September 1988. In the months previous...

Rooftop Bar, Dilshad Palace Hotel, Duhok. October 2019 Everyone needs to unwind An enterprising young Lebanese Christian, RA, saw the...

Day Cruise from Fort Lauderdale to Freeport, Bahamas. Winter 1990. Cruise to nowhere, literally Thirty years ago, time share companies...

Jackson's Sawmill Bridge (1878), Lancaster County. December 2020 [from FB post: December 15, 2020] The only bridge in Lancaster County...

St Helena, c. 1495, Cima da Conegliano, National Gallery of Art. December 2021 Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem. June 2018 ...