We have visited Peru on four occasions in the past, but never made it to Arequipa, Colca Canyon nor Lake Titicaca, so we decided to make that a destination this time. On our drive from Arequipa (a UNESCO heritage site dubbed the White City), we saw this flying saucer shaped cloud hovering near the Misti […]
Malaysia 1 – Kuala Lumpur
When we first thought of going to Kuala Lumpur, we expected to get some nice skyline photographs. After searching for suitable sites though, we concluded that there is no good location to shoot the skyline from. When studying alternatives, we kept coming up with the Twin Towers as being the true iconic view in the […]
Balkans 1 – Bosnia 1
We have just started our latest adventure with Mehmet Özbalci of TurFantastic, this time to photograph five Balkan countries. Mehmet has become our favorite photography tour guide, and we have traveled with him to Iran, Sri Lanka, Georgia, Armenia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Turkey and other countries. He knows where to go at which time for the […]
Istanbul – Resuming Travel in 2022
We are traveling again! The world of Pandemic COVID has not completely disappeared, but it is finally fading into the background, where the variants will likely become an embedded part of everyone’s lives forever. For those with access to vaccines, there is not much more of a concern than seasonable flu. We flew from Honolulu […]
Cuenca – Jazz Jam Session
Some consider Cuenca as the cultural capital of Ecuador, which is filled with art of all types. There are visual arts galleries, weavers, quality crafts, ceramics studios, and there are also a variety of music and theater venues available every week, all year long. You can hear blues, country, pop, classical, trova, jazz, traditional Latin […]
Cuenca – Thanksgiving 2021
Happy Thanksgiving to all of our family and friends. We’re thankful we were able to get together with others this year. We had several Thanksgiving invitations, and had to choose. In the end, we decided to go to two dinners, based on timing. Yes, we were stuffed on Thanksgiving and wished we had “stretchy pants”! […]
Oaxaca, Mexico 5 – Thanksgiving Dinner
Oaxaca Lending Library is a long-standing nonprofit with 450 members in Oaxaca founded in 1966 that primarily caters to the English speaking expats. It has a lending library with some 20,000 English and Spanish language books. OLL also organizes tours, hikes, yoga, Spanish and English language classes, and is generally a great place to meet […]
Home After Whirlwind 10 Weeks
We are back home, and loving it! Yes, the travel was fantastic. The places were fantastic. The people were (mostly…) fantastic. But our own beds and showers are more welcome after a long trip like this. After 10 weeks covering 6 countries, we did so much that it is hard for it not to start […]
Iran 4 – Shiraz Two
Iranian Local: What do you do? (he meant as a job) Me: I am retired. IL: Are you unemployed? I am sorry to hear this. Me: No, retired. I worked for 45 years, and can now enjoy my life without having to work any longer. IL: But you are not old enough to retire! (discussion […]
Sri Lanka 1 – Colombo
NOTE: Starting with the Thailand trip just completed, I have begun limiting each “photo story block” to only seven images. A few years ago, I was using eleven, but received feedback that the images were too small. I have since been using nine-photo blocks. Some people have commented that they read this block on small […]