One Country at a Time
Posted in Asia, Photo Friday, Taipei, Taiwan, The Travel Bug on Jun 25th, 2010
We were supposed to end our honeymoon in Vietnam. That didn’t happen, for reasons I’ll detail on another day. Instead, we found ourselves in Taiwan’s bustling capital for the final few days of our Southeast Asia follies. Truth be told, I’d never had a burning desire to go to Taiwan. I’d connected through the airport [...]
Posted in Adventure Travel, California, Mojave Desert, North America, Photo Friday, SVV, USA on Jun 11th, 2010
Putting aside the shattered wrist and accompanying titanium plate, this trip was epic. Blustery temperatures, nary a soul on the trails and vistas that surely inspired many a spaghetti Western. Once again the crew assembled for a long four-day weekend in California’s southern deserts. We do this every year but quite often schedules do not [...]
Posted in Lynchburg, Photo Friday, Tennessee, The Dirty South, The Travel Bug, USA on Jun 4th, 2010
In anticipation of my two-and-a-half weeks back in Tennessee at the end of the month—and getting to show SVV’s parents the ropes in their foray into Southern culture—I dipped into my archives and found these photos of the great town of Lynchburg. Now, most people around the world have heard of Lynchburg for one reason: [...]
Posted in Adventure Travel, Africa, Nyungwe Forest, Photo Friday, Rwanda, The Travel Bug, Workin' Hard for the Money on May 28th, 2010
Something really cool happened while we were in Rwanda in March: The first five-star lodge in the whole country opened, and we got to be some of the first guests. This is monumental, as it’s a step in the right direction for building up Rwanda as a tourist destination once again, after the war in [...]
