Tag: travel
group name: cr8nonfiction
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June 15, 2006 12:19 AM EDT --
Winston Reina calls himself a man without a language. That's really ironic from a man who speaks five languages, but that's Winston . . . more
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November 12, 2006 10:30 AM EST --
We left Yazd early in the morning for our date with the Dasht-i-Kavir. We made good time; stopping only once for a picnic in the middle of some salt flats 300 kilometers outside Yazd. Bread, feta cheese, . . . more
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November 10, 2006 09:51 AM EST --
The Islamic world is filled with magnificent cities. Samarkand, Bukhara, Damascus, Cairo, Istanbul and Mecca are all at the top of any top ten list, but Isfahan is in a class of its own. A city where the . . . more
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May 15, 2007 10:29 PM EDT --
Tehran's Mehrabad Airport is a cheerless backwater, especially at four in the morning, after enduring a 10-hour flight to Amsterdam, a nine-hour delay, followed by the six-hour flight to Tehran. . . . more
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December 06, 2006 09:20 PM EST --
First days are always about impressions. So are first posts. I’m glad I waited until I had time to process what I’ve so far seen, otherwise I’d have misled you and me.
Please excuse . . . more
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December 03, 2006 07:53 PM EST --
Breathing is not something you take for granted when you're under sixty feet of seawater. You hear every whisper and gurgle, you're aware of every breath, . . . more
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October 29, 2006 02:20 PM EST --
We were too old, flat chested, and boring to be real Girls Gone Wild, even if we had wanted. Besides, this happened in the days when college students, not under-chaperoned high schoolers, comprised . . . more
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October 19, 2007 09:54 AM EDT --
New York City is an ideal place for people of all ages who want to unwind, play, and meet new friends in an energetic backdrop. Beginning at the . . . more
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November 28, 2006 08:49 AM EST --
If you're a normal person, you probably never gave much thought to elephant urine. Neither had I until I encountered some on a narrow jungle game trail in . . . more
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August 04, 2006 01:28 PM EDT --
My sister and me with local friends, March 1986
"'Oars! Oars!' he intensely whispered, seizing the helm -- 'grip your oars, and clutch your souls, now! . . . more
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November 01, 2006 11:46 PM EST --
(Day One Here)
It was close to five by the time we exhausted decent choices and found a vacancy in what could have been (with a few updates) the Bates Motel, convinced the drunk behind the counter to . . . more
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August 30, 2007 11:40 PM EDT --
Ulan Ude is a city of 360,000 people lying more than 4000 kilometers (and five time zones) east of Moscow on . . . more
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December 06, 2006 08:47 PM EST --
When Things Go Terribly Wrong
Usually, I don’t watch the nightly news, because I prefer to go to bed feeling like the world isn’t going to hell in a hand bag. I changed my routine Friday night . . . more
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July 20, 2008 10:30 PM EDT --
Ireland is a country of spell binding beauty. Its people are deservedly known for their friendliness and hospitality, but I'm convinced that a major reason its population is less than . . . more
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November 10, 2006 09:50 AM EST --
Tradition has it that Isfahan's Friday mosque sits on what was once a Zoroastrian Fire Temple. Now, I have been inside mosques that used to be Fire Temples, most notably the Maggak-i-Attari in Bukhara . . . more
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November 10, 2006 12:09 PM EST --
As I mentioned in a previous post, there just wasn't much to see in Shiraz, aside from Persepolis, which lays a 120km outside the city. I was no doubt happy to leave, but more so, happy to be heading . . . more
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November 11, 2006 11:20 AM EST --
We passed through the Qeysarieh gate (see previous post for location), a pair of Parthian horsemen turning backwards, bows drawn, ready for a final shot, stand at opposite ends of the tympanum. Was the . . . more
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March 29, 2006 12:05 AM EST --
Between March, 1983 and June, 1984 I lived with my family in Bontang on the east coast of Borneo six miles north of the equator, where I worked at the large LNG (Liquefied . . . more
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November 01, 2006 06:14 AM EST --
Before Father and I left for Iran I told myself I would not post about politics. I'm still very hesitant to do so, mostly because people will think I have 'gone native' if I do. But sometimes . . . more
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December 06, 2006 09:23 PM EST --
Before I departed for Oaxaca I was told, point blank, by several people that I was endangering my life by coming here. I have no doubt that had I wandered into Oaxaca three weeks ago I would have been. . . . more
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