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Tikal, Guatemala: A Glimpse of the Americas in 900 A.D. Some big piles of rocks in a Guatemalan jungle may change your thinking about "American" history. In the year 800 or so, Tikal was a city of nearly 100,000 Mayan people, set in the northeast part of what is now More...
Chicago Double Feature September 12, 2012 update: I made another trip through Chicago last weekend, so I added the wide shot now at the bottom of this post, and the mafia hit picture now in the 'rotating' gallery. Even if you’ve never heard of Chicago’s Second City comedy institute, More...
Yellowstone: 35 Years Later A quick trip to Yellowstone and the Tetons with my Uncle Tommy and Aunt Barb It was my uncle Tommy McCreight who first put a real camera in my hands -- back in the 1970s. And by bringing me More...
Cuba (Part 4) Kings of Cohiba Number 4 in a series that started here. I don’t smoke. Not even cigars, and not even cigars when I'm in Cuba. But of course the Cuban Cohiba is the Holy Grail for cigar lovers, and cigars are among More...
My Kind of Town I live in Houston, America’s fourth largest city. Only New York, L.A., and Chicago are bigger, and if I had to choose among those three for a next-choice favorite city to live in, I think I’d choose Chicago every time. More...