Good games come…
So the games have begun. And even though nobody can see the torch from out here, there’s plenty to see out here. Like the much unloved Water Polo! They have…
Mute the sounds of a mega-city…
A thought I find interesting: to see a still image is putting the world on mute for a second. I don’t see it as a “pause”… only a “mute.” The…
On the street where you live…
And London again. One of the most livable cities I’ve ever visited. Maybe I’m mistaken, but I can spend indefinite amounts of time wandering the streets here. But today… there…
Whatever remains behind…
The site of the Happy Olympics. The rest of the world should look to Munich to see how to develop an aging Olympic park into a viable place for people…
Some lights burn brighter if there are no windows…
“A minute is 60 seconds. You can’t change the length of a minute, but you can make it wider.” ~Zea, our fixer in Istanbul It takes time to travel. On…
Rome and holidays…
So… Rome was as it usually is this time of year: pretty warm and sunny. The roads around the major sites were closed to traffic, the tourists and nuns were…
The Vatican be known…
So… what is different about these two photos? vs Over four years of time has passed since I made the one on the left. It has since had a life…
Moving in honor of sunlight…
So, I’ve been training for a run. On this particular day, I needed to wake up before dawn to get my run in because the day was prohibitively busy otherwise.…
Below ground above Corinth…
There are the hidden places of the world, off the beaten path where tourists give up: “There’s nothing to see here!” In the underworld, it is easy to see the…
Sport and stuff…
Like a back-lot set used in a post-apocalyptic movie, the 2004 Athens Olympic stadium sits mostly abandoned east of downtown. The whole campus is immense. The group took a tour…
Reasoning for seasoning…
So, I must confess: I barely follow sports. I’m one of those people who watch the Olympics every four years and get my dose of “sport” that will satisfy me…
The market floor…
I’m beginning to return to places frequently enough that I am seeing the evolution over time. The first time I set foot in this square, I couldn’t actually see it.…