Yearly Archives: 2017

Yellowstone

Please enjoy some pictures from Yellowstone National Park.  I stayed at a cabin in the park; I recommend a minimum of three days to appreciate its diversity. I wrote about Yellowstone in Chapter 20 of Tattoo.        

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Abruzzo

My father’s family had come from the Abruzzo region of Italy just a century ago. I don’t know why but I felt beholden to get there. My father came from a family of people who cooked polenta and made red

Posted in World Glimpses

Mesa Verde

Mesa Verde is a National Park at the intersection of four states (Utah, Colorado, Utah and New Mexico). I was on a road trip around Southern Utah and stumbled upon it, high up on a ledge with greenery way, way down

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Great Wall of China

China.  When I was growing up and there was a road construction project that seemed to be taking much too long, people would suggest that they must be building the Great Wall of China. When you were digging a deep hole in

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