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We got back to Anchorage Thursday night.  An overnight near the Frankfurt Main airport broke up the flying somewhat, but it's Sunday and...

 I’ve tried four or five times to book tickets to visit my grandkids in San Francisco for Thanksgiving on the Alaska Airlines website.  I’ve...

The Gallipoli Tour:  The bus picked us up Tuesday (October 22) at 7am, before the breakfast buffet opened.  So the hotel gave us sandwiches...

 The Cappadocia region is shown on the map in the previous post.     We arrived in Göreme by bus after dark and walked up to our hotel which...

Keeping up here has been difficult.  We’re just too busy, but let me just give you some selected pictures and comments.   We met with a trav...

Just in the opening intro to Robert Caro’s Working, I was inspired to take on a project I’d put off for a couple of years now.   Caro reads ...

We’re in Mauritius.   I’ve already written about my ethical concerns of flying to Türkiye.  And here I am in Mauritius.  If we weren’t alre...

[TECH NOTE:  This post has been delayed because I’m using a new iPad 16 for our trip and the simple way to shrink photo file size on my MacB...

Lately, say midnightly, maybely even laterally, my posts, like fence post have gotten cotton weigh more hits, bang bang bang.  Dang.   I mea...

  I’m reading Istanbul by Nobel Prize winning Turkish author Orhan Pamuk.   It’s an autobiographical look at the author, Istanbul, and Turk...