Random Past Posts
Iran: Blue Tiles of Isfahan In the time period roughly between Christopher Columbus and George Washington, early-day Iranians were on the other side of the world doing some pretty impressive things with blue and yellow tile. The city of Isfahan was the capital of Persia More...
Chinlon on the Chindwin #7 of several posts from Burma and the Chindwin River. About the only “sport” we saw being played along the Chindwin was Chinlon. It can be played two ways, each using a woven bamboo ball about 7 inches in More...
Completed Passes In the Alps, there are lots of very-long tunnels and lots of very-high mountain passes. Sometimes you get to choose between the two. Tunnels usually make lousy pictures. And sometimes you learn a thing or two by taking the high More...
Final Four Fortunately for me (but sucking for him), my friend Scott had tickets to the Final Four Championship game, but wound up being out of town on game day. I got to be Stacy's "date," and join the Merzes for More...
Overlooking Bogota I spent just 36 hours or so in Bogota before heading west through the Andes. It's Colombia's biggest and capital city -- with a metro population bigger than Chicago and an elevation higher than Aspen. Bogota has plenty to More...