My ears were itchy when I returned from Ecuador. I was a bit anxious about having caught something awful. In stretching my mind, I wondered if I had picked up something on that 3-day tour out of Quito. That tour…
Yearly Archives: 2014
Mariposa Grove
Yosemite National Park, California: After a drive on winding roads through picturesque mountains, I pulled over at the Mariposa Grove. I wanted to take a closer look at the big trees. The National Park Service says: “The Mariposa Grove, near…
Posted in Just for Fun
Ankara
Noon in Ankara is 5am in Boston. Ankara is the capital of Turkey. The people were friendly but their English was as good as my Turkish so we talked at each other and tried to pick up nonverbal cues. My…
Posted in World Glimpses
Indy 500
I’m not a race car fan. In fact, the first I knew of what exactly a race car looked like was at the Hall of Fame Museum at the Indy 500 racetrack. It was there I sat in one of…
Ethiopia, even still
Ethiopia is a place with a lot of subtlety so that I often paused to ask myself, what country am I in? (The Omo Valley in the southern part is outside the scope of this post.) Ethiopia is the only…
Posted in World Glimpses
