Random Past Posts
Festival in Chissi, Bolivia I sometimes make a hobby out of choosing a random side road somewhere in the world and just seeing what I find. ------ I should make clear that these images are from Chissi, a town far away More...
Kiwi Springtime: Queenstown, New Zealand New Zealanders refer to themselves as "Kiwis." And of course most Americans are aware of the brown, furry fruit of the same name. But if you're tracing the original source of the term "kiwi," be aware that the chicken-sized bird came before that egg-sized More...
Race Across the Sky: The Leadville Trail 100 Mountain Bike Race If you can finish Leadville’s 100-mile mountain bike race in less than 12 hours, they award you a belt buckle. And the faster you finish; the bigger the buckle* It’s a great tradition and a fun souvenir that's a nice reminder of More...
Paris 2012: Eiffel Tower For a while, it was the tallest manmade structure in the world. Built in the 1880s by Gustav Eiffel (the bridge-building engineer who had recently built the framework for the Statue of Liberty), the Eiffel Tower was intended as a More...
Blythe and Tyler Life never turns out the way you imagined it, and sometimes that's a very good thing. My nephew, Tyler, grew up in Fort Gibson, Oklahoma, and after college he found his way to Chicago to try his hand More...