I have not written on this bloggie thingie for way too long. Mainly because we have not traveled  for like a whole month! Life on campus is better than I imagined it could be. Mary Ann is enjoying her job and the people she works with. She gets tired by Thursday (virtual Friday, the Moslem week is Sunday through Thursday) [...]

Everyone should see Nepal. My bonafides for saying that are simple. I have done my share of traveling (not enough yet mind you) and a lot of that has been in back water bizarre places. I have been all over the Altiplanos of Peru and Bolivia. I have been on an island in the middle of Lake Titicaca. I’ve been [...]

Remember when you were a kid (if you are my age) and your parents would drag you along to visit a neighbor who invited them over to see the slides of his trip to Akron, Ohio? His narrative would go like this. “This is the Best Western motel where I stayed, see how big the parking lot is?” All you [...]