It’s 4:30. Silence. No roosters crowing or small feathered ones calling to friends and neighbors. Evan has yet to assert his three...

It’s just our third day, but we’re getting acclimated. Slowly, we’ve extended our walks in length and scope. This morning Pa and I...

Back home, Thijs Hannen is a chief archivist for the government, first in the Netherlands to introduce digitalized archiving. In his...

Even before we left, I’d convinced Pa we should visit Nepal for an extended time. He knew little of the country other than of the...

You live your entire life in a country and will never know all of it, even a fraction. Far less so when you travel, visiting a city for...

Pa and I spent yesterday afternoon visiting “The Other Dubai.” Walking the neighborhood, taking photos, having a wonderful Arabian lunch...

Many come to Dubai just for the beaches, and shop at “The Mall,” the world’s largest. I didn’t bring a suit and neither Pa nor I are...

It’s 6:30 Arabia Standard Time (AST) and the sun has just set. Sayed, my seat mate, has dozed off after a stressful business week in...

The Acropolis. It’s always there. Looking down on the city as if from Mt. Olympus. The crown jewel. We’d saved it for the last day. But...

We had an agenda, and knew the way, but happened upon a park. And being sunny as it was, were in no hurry, and lingered. After a while we...

I can’t speak for Pa, but I knew it would be this way. A year ago, two years ago, when I was dreaming, thinking, beginning to plan, even...

And when we woke, we were grateful we’d stayed, if for no other reason than the sunrise, and the monolith rising up from the still...

Quite unexpectedly, we ended the day at the Pramataris in Monemvasia. It’s not that we hadn’t hope to visit the tiny town on the sea. ...

I’ve long wanted to visit the Peloponnesus and now have the opportunity. Pa, student of history that he is, shares my enthusiasm. Homer...

I have seven grandchildren, each loved for who they are and how they see their world. Oliver, just turned 3, loves all things that move,...

Upon landing we could feel it. Though there were trucks and cars before us, and modern buildings beyond, this was the Land of Homer, the...

Captain’s Log: Stardate 2023.02.12.9:55. Second day aboard the MV Grimaldi. The City of Brindisi. A little rough around the edges,...

As promised, we set aside the morning for a visit to the Museo Archeologico Nazionale. It would be an easy walk, twenty minutes on a...

Giuseppe stopped by to see how we were doing. A very nice surprise. We talked about his business and plans for the future. “This is a...

We weren’t too keen on Taranto that first night, for reasons previously shared. But in the morning we thought we’d better give it a...