BOTH ENDS OF THE SILKROAD
Empires of the Silk Road, by Christopher I. Beckwith separates the history of civilization into trade by land over the Silk Road from the Bronze Age until Christopher Columbus sailed…
Cruise the Med before your dead
The Vatican The Pantheon The Tiber Piazza Navona The KONINGSDAM Athens Mykonos Kusadasi RHODES Santorini Crete Straits of Messina
Thank God My Father Moved Us to Cincinnati
Well, for more than 65 years, Coney Island and its Sunlite Pool had been a riverside playground for most of the people of Cincinnati; it boasted cleanliness, thrilling rides, a…
ALL I KNEW WAS WHAT I READ IN MY ‘WEEKLY READER’
On Mooney Avenue, Andre my fellow classmate and across the street neighbor, along with 3rd grader Greg didn’t know squat or could care less about Russia or the Union of…
How Do You Get to Sarajevo City Hall? Practice!
Sarajevo City Hall the ‘Temple Mount’ of the “European Jerusalem” Situated at the intersection of three major streets in Sarajevo, the City Hall is a monument to the multiculturalism of…
Way to Go Sarajevo
The oldest pyramid in the world is in… Bosnia Who said there was nothing to do in Bosnia? An amateur archaeologist claims to have discovered pyramids in Bosnia, but scientists…
Armenia – You Can’t Get There from Here
Garni-Geghard-Pokr Vedi Vagharshapat – Etchmiadzin
Georgia On My Mind
Georgia, GeorgiaThe whole day throughJust an old sweet songKeeps Georgia on my mind (Georgia on my mind)I said Georgia Georgia Invented Wine GeorgiaA song of youComes as sweet and clearAs…
Kate Clow Lives in the Hood
My Queen of Diamonds friend was paying her first visit to our home, when she recognized that Kate Clow, founder of the Lycian coast trail lived in the neighborhood, We…
A Conscious Decision on the Path of Least Resistance
Coming to Antalya, Turkey is the first time I have wandered off the path of least resistance. Did I want to go in the military in the Vietnam era…