One of the nice things about not being a tourist in places like Mongolia (as an example) is that you get to see a much fuller cross section of the place you are visiting. There are those who take the ‘high-road’ by only taking the ‘low-road’ travel options (though unless they’ve walked there from home, […]
My father worked for the phone company all his life. Actually, that isn’t completely true. In 1943, during World War II, he joined the Marines, got married and managed not to get killed. After the war he returned to his job at the C&P Telephone Co., played around on boats in and around the Potomac […]
At 2:56 pm Brisbane time I crossed the equator for the umpteenth time – heading north on flight CZ382. The time is significant because that is the time my son, Micah, gets out of school. When I left this morning en route to Xuzhou, China, where I’ll be teaching for a few weeks, my son […]