travel

Even though I still haven’t finished my Peru accounts, I feel I just have to write something on our more recent travel venture into the green giant that is Brazil. Well, it is green on my map, and our first glimpses of it showed a superfluity of greenery. We were green too – unprepared. There...

This post is from our trip in Nicaragua a few years back. Lots of highs and lows on this trip. The article is here. Nicaraguan Adventures 6: Jinotega, Selva Negra, and Matagalpa

Aside from going over budget we are enjoying a jaunt through South Africa. The article below is from our time in Cape Town. We are (so far, at least) going eastward on Highway 2, currently in George, Western Cape. Cape Town, South Africa: A Place like no Other

It is hard now to imagine what this island was like centuries before. It must have been really beautiful at one time. Mark Twain wrote, “What there is of Mauritius is beautiful. You have undulating wide expanses of sugar-cane—a fine, fresh green and very pleasant to the eye; and everywhere...

I finally finished my next photo-blog entry on Ukraine. Hopefully some good reading for someone here. Berdyansk, “The Odessa of Azov”

Pictures and text linked below. DONETSK DETOUR: September 2020