An American Abroad
Today, June 9, 2015, my blog is two years old. What started out as little more than a convenient way for me to keep a personal online diary and to stay in touch with family and friends has grown beyond its original bounds. I've written 267 posts … [Continue reading]
Looking back at my photos from this 2008 trip, I can see the beginnings of the same fascinations that still characterize my travel photography. Signs and graffiti, to name two. Some of the signs for professional offices had a beautiful, simple … [Continue reading]
The cathedral of Granada is surely the most photographed building in town. It's impossible to miss. No matter where we were in Granada, we could see its cheery neoclassical yellow towers in the distance. The original church at this … [Continue reading]
As night fell on our first day in Granada, we heard the sounds of a crowd and the buzz of a small engine coming from the street. I grabbed my camera and went out to see. The streets were aswarm with people. Considering their numbers, though, it was a … [Continue reading]
I traveled to Nicaragua in 2008 with my son, Spencer. It was my ur-trip, the experience that formed the template of much travel to come: A faintly exotic destination that had experienced civil war in living memory A mixture of luxury digs and … [Continue reading]
I connected on Twitter recently with Joanna Bieleń woman from Stalowa Wola, Poland who, like me, has traveled some but wants to do more. (By the way, if you're not following me on Twitter, you should. My feed centers on travel and living … [Continue reading]
Concepts like inside and outside tend to blur in Cartagena -- indeed, in many tropical countries. Houses and other buildings in the old city are built around courtyards. Whether the courtyard counts as inside or outside is an issue I don't really … [Continue reading]
It was a hot night. I heard music -- Wild Afro-Caribbean beats. I followed the sound to Parque de Bolívar, in the center of the old city. There was rhythm, sweat, dancing, music, costumes, and a monkey. I turned my camera flash off and started … [Continue reading]
As much as I seek to dispel stereotypes by traveling, there are some that are hard not to fall prey to. In Cartagena, I was all in on the notion that the city was every bit the magical, romantic place that its native son, Gabriel García Márquez, … [Continue reading]
These are more daytime photos of Cartagena, Colombia, which I visited in 2008. As Lonely Planet puts it, Cartagena de Indias is the undisputed queen of the Caribbean coast, a fairy-tale city of romance, legends and superbly preserved beauty lying … [Continue reading]
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