Column of Marcus Aurelius, Piazza Colonna, Rome. November 2016 How Marcus helped me survive Ramadan in Saudi Arabia By day three in...

Old City Bazaar, Ahad Refidah, Asir, Saudi Arabia. November 2017 In search of the other Jerash in the land of the Qahtani OQ, one of my...

Ephrata Cloister, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. November 2020 Rachel, Micah, Conrad and the end of the world Long lockdown walks took...

Bapir Restaurant, Sulav Old City gate November 2019 Hadi's Insider Tour of Amedi HB, one of my students, invited me on a crisp November weekend day to visit his family hometown of Amedi. Amedi is nearly mythical in both its appearance and history. It doesn't even look real approaching it from a distance and more recalls a fort from Rajasthan, India than a Kurdish citadel in northern Iraq. Add to that, no one really knows who exactly built Amedi, only that "it is extrem

Duhok Dam, Duhok, Iraq. November 2019 Duhok is a walkable city. Five years in Abha, Saudi Arabia made me appreciate any city that...

Al Khobar Traditional Village Restaurant, Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia. November 2014 At Java Beans, my regular cafe in Abha, I met a group...

Pira Delal, Zakho, Iraq. November 2018 Bridges and History A few months after arriving in Duhok, my boss, Khedir Ramazan, drove my...

Tabuk Fort. November 2015 One of the few Saudi friends that I made outside of Abha, AM, and I decided to spend a weekend in Tabuk in...

Martic Forge Trestle, Lancaster County, PA. November 2020. The Great Wall of China can be seen from space - so can the gouge across...

Vatican Museum. November 2016. Of managed expectations - almost Without a doubt, the Vatican Museum is in the "top museums" I have ever...

Rixos Hotel, Duhok, Iraq. November 2018 Coffee on Friday mornings, ex-pat Kurds, dangerous franchising Friday in the Middle East is the...

Erb's Mill Covered Bridge (1849). Lancaster County, PA. November 2020 Of "natsukashii" memes, libertarians, and compulsive behavior...

Abha Fort Coffee House, November 14, 2017 Of coffee and dates AQ my longsuffering cultural guide and student in Saudi Arabia invited me...

St Peter's Basilica, November 2016 The historical reverberations of place. The weather was cloudy and damp. November in Rome - not the...

Ostia Antica, the port of Imperial Rome. November 2016. Of fellow travelers, abandoned cities, and dictators. On a crisp autumn morning...

Mt Faifa, Saudi Arabia, November 2017 (the mountains behind me are Yemen) [from FB post: November 11, 2017] The War Zone I live and work...

The Winter Garden, Lower Manhattan, October 2010. A question that has plagued me since I started a life of travel is "where was your...

This is the Pinnacle Overlook, part of Susquehannock State Park in Lancaster County, PA. Half of the "big lockdown" during COVID for me...

Every Friday for three of my five years living in Saudi Arabia, I did a long walk in the desert with my colleague WBT. The name "Saudi...