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 tiān'ānmén: 天安门 - Gate of Heavenly Peace  [from:   https://contextualchinese.com/%E5%85%AD%E5%9B%9B%E4%BA%8B%E4%BB%B6 ] I arrived in Ho...

  I have books.  There are books in pretty much every room in the house, though we don't keep books in the bathrooms.    The other day I...

We set the clocks ahead again last night or this morning.  And the Alaska legislature has a bill to end Daylight Savings.Again     [I suspec...

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 ...

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

[I found this draft post from July 2012.  It appears never to have been posted.  But it's interesting to see how what I wrote 12 years a...