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View Article  360-KM. DASH TO BERLIN

Two luggages? Check. Your bag? Check. Camera? Check. Video? Check. James? Hey, c’mon, we’re going! That was my son standing ...   more »

View Article  SHOOTING ON THE RUN

There is a wide gulf between an amateur and professional photographer. Aside from the equipment, there’s also the factor of ...   more »

View Article  TRAVELS LAST YEAR

I looked at my diary of the year that just passed and realized that it was the traveling-est year ever. ...   more »

View Article  THREE FABULOUS WOMEN IN DUBAI
Just got back from a 2-day jaunt to neighboring Dubai to attend the annual Index Design Fair. It’s been two ...   more »
View Article  THE COLOSSI IN ABU SIMBEL
There is no better example of the phenomenon called “mass tourism” than the trip to Abu Simbel (“Father of the ...   more »
View Article  FIRST DAY GAME DRIVE

We left for the first afternoon game drive at 3:00PM in an open Landrover. With ...   more »

View Article  THE LATE, LONG HAUL BACK HOME

My itinerary read like an alphabet soup: SFO-CHI-TYS-DTW-AMS-KWI. In plain language, it meant that I was flying from San Francisco...   more »

View Article  BIKE THE BRIDGE
I was sitting on a bench in front of Pier 39, contentedly munching on a large cone of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream....   more »
View Article  GWALAGWALA

Leaving our stopover bungalow at Hamilton Park Country lodge where we only stayed for one night, we drove to the ...   more »

View Article  SECOND DAY AT AN INDIAN WEDDING

Next day was the Ring Ceremony at noontime. But since we didn’t have much to do the rest of the ...   more »

View Article  FIRST DAY AT AN INDIAN WEDDING

We found ourselves in familiar territory once more when Gladys and I came out of Indira Gandhi International Airport in ...   more »

View Article  TRIP TO CAIRO

The flight from Kuwait to Cairo was 2.5 hours they said. After late lunch was served, there was nothing much ...   more »

View Article  TROUBLE ON THE HIGHWAY FROM ST. LOUIS TO THE ROCKIES

After attending the 7:00AM Mass at the nearby St. Louis Cathedral which has a lovely Romanesque façade and truly great ...   more »

View Article  A VISIT TO THE BURJ AL-ARAB

There it was – all 332 meters high – right across the bridge from the sands of Jumeirah beach, its ...   more »

View Article  FOR THE LOVE OF CLAPTON

We – Gladys, James and I - meandered around Europe for about a week since arriving in Amsterdam. Driving through ...   more »

View Article  CHEESY ALKMAAR

Early Friday morning found us on the road from Delft passing thru flat, postcard-pretty Dutch countryside. Cows were grazing in the ...   more »

View Article  DAY ONE OF A EUROPEAN SUMMER

Arriving in Amsterdam early in the morning with an overcast sky and close-to-winter temperature was quite a shock coming as ...   more »

View Article  HONEYMOONING DOWN BY THE SEINE

Okay, so we weren’t really on a honeymoon but that line from the Beatles’ “Ballad of John and Yoko” (Finally ...   more »

View Article  RAMBLING DOWN LAS RAMBLAS

Nowhere is the truism “So much to see, so little time” more apt than when we arrived in Barcelona. This ...   more »

View Article  SINTRA - CHARMING PORTUGUESE TOWN

If there is one trip you have to take outside of Lisbon, it has to be Sintra. This small ...   more »