Random Past Posts
Scotland 2014: Oban, Staffa and Iona Scotland's odd little Inner Hebrides island of Staffa is famous for more than sightseeing. The 19th Century composer Felix Mendelssohn wrote a now-famous overture about it: the Hebrides Overture (a.k.a. "Fingal's Cave"). Too bad there was no orchestra around More...
SCUBA Dive the Great Barrier Reef: Check! Even though I spent almost two weeks on the banks of the Coral Sea in Cairns, Australia -- the primary port for access to the Great Barrier Reef -- crappy weather and busy schedules (for other priorities) meant I More...
Tikal, Guatemala: A Glimpse of the Americas in 900 A.D. Some big piles of rocks in a Guatemalan jungle may change your thinking about "American" history. In the year 800 or so, Tikal was a city of nearly 100,000 Mayan people, set in the northeast part of what is now More...
Scotland 2014: Lighthouses, Sheep, and Dead Economists Yes, I've been home from Scotland for a while, but I've got a few more batches of pictures to share. For 190 years, the Eilan Glas lighthouse has sat on the small peninsula off the Isle of Scalpay (a More...
Paris 2012: A History Lesson Here's the last of three posts from a great trip to Paris with my niece Caitlin and sister Jana. I had to brush up on some superficial French history just to grasp some of what I was seeing in Paris last week, and More...