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.…
On a foreign map…
No matter how often I travel, for some reason I have a special place in my heart for maps. To see a map, recognize it as foreign, and know that…
Fortified storms…
When you’re on a mountaintop, you’re closer to the storm. . Stay tuned… -Noah D.
Return to Hispaniola…
Lovely day for a drive across Hispaniola. A drive from Santo Domingo to Port-au-Prince, Haiti. It is bizarre how different these two countries are. They share a border, yet their…
Making great leaps to get back…
The mystique of Instagram and Hipstamatic is that it gives a little twist on the everyday life, the mundane normalcy, and with a little filter added, a whole new world…
What is a Macau…?
Saying “I just got back from Macau” is sorta like saying “I’ve been to Vegas.” I guess “What happens in Macau stays in Macau!” just doesn’t have the same ring…
Into the fog and fire…
“Affluence isn’t affluence at all. Hong Kong is the benchmark; everybody else’s affluence is mere tat. Until you’ve experienced that perfume-washed air as polarized glass doors embrace you into a…
And then to somewhere completely different…
This job has taken me a lot of unusual places, but this was the farthest around the planet I’d gone yet. Too bad I was absurdly sick. I arrived in…