Dear Reader (2025-01-19)The W Trek is shaped roughly like a flat-bottomed W. I walked the route from the W’s right side to its left side (east to west). In today’s post you and I will walk the relatively short distance from the bottom of the … Continue readingPatagonia – W Trek – Day 4
Dear Reader (2025-01-17),In today’s post you and I walk to a glacier lookout, past an unusable old bridge and over a very serviceable new bridge, and through an area that was ravaged by fire in 2011. My love affair with the trees and mountains of … Continue readingPatagonia – W Trek – Day 3
Dear Reader (2025-01-13),In today’s post you and I walk what would appear from the map to be a relatively moderate walk. Most of the day is spent in sight of Lago Nordernskjöld (a good Argentine name). I and others I meet at the end of … Continue readingPatagonia – W Trek – Day 2
Dear Reader (2025-01-13), It is time to begin the second part of the Buenos Aires, Patagonia, Antarctica adventure. The two areas I visited in Patagonia were Los Glaciares National Park using El Chalten in Argentina as a base, and Torres del Paine National Park in … Continue readingPatagonia – W Trek – Day 1
Dear Reader (2025-01-05)In La Boca, down a short alley an accordion player sits in the corner of a small empty stage. This is obviously his livelihood. I ask if I can take his portrait through gestures, and I contribute to the nearly empty hat in … Continue readingBuenos Aires – Portrait
Dear Reader (2025-01-02)As some of you know, I have enjoyed street photography for many years. Most of my street photography is shades of un-shareable drek. But, every once in a while I capture images of which I am proud. 1 – A man with a … Continue readingBuenos Aires – Street Life
Dear Reader (2024-12-31)(Recent Travel Post 03 – Buenos Aires – La Boca) It is a grey day here in Calgary. A light snow is falling and there is no line between sky and ground. What we need is a bit of colour, and so in … Continue readingBuenos Aires – La Boca
Dear Reader (2024-12-29)Yes I am alive and doing fine. I hope the same can be said for you and those near and dear to you. Let’s just pretend it has only been a couple of days since my last post. HousekeepingI have a limited amount … Continue readingThe South America Tour Begins
Dear Reader (2024-04-19),In this post, you and I wander Tashkent through backstreets and main streets, past a new apartment building that promotes a fantasy from a rooftop screen that can be read from the street, find apartment layouts revealing, travel briefly through the Soviet era … Continue readingFIVE STANS 36 – END OF THIS LINE
Dear Reader (2024-04-18),It is late afternoon when we board the night train to Tashkent. There is what the mirror says about our ages, what the body says, how we feel, and how we behave. Some go off to the bar car. Three sometimes four of … Continue readingFIVE STANS 35 -NEAR LINE’S END
Dear Reader (2024-04-18),In the last post (Five Stans 33) you and I began exploring Khiva’s old city. In today’s post I continue my jackdaw approach of capturing whatever catches my eye. My travel companions and I visit a weaver (17) who is kind enough to … Continue readingFIVE STANS 34 – A JEWEL PART TWO
Dear Reader (2024-04-17)In the last post (Five Stans 32) you and I left the weird and remarkable Turkmenistan, and crossed into Uzbekistan for the third and last time. In today’s post we visit the third of Uzbekistan’s three Silk Road jewels, Khiva. The first two … Continue readingFive Stans 33 – Third Jewel
Dear Reader (2024-04-16)“In 1971, when Turkmenistan was still part of the Soviet Union, a group of Soviet geologists went to the Karakum (Desert) in search of oil fields. They found what they thought to be a substantial oil field and began drilling. Unfortunately for the … Continue readingFive Stans 32 – An Industrial Accident
Dear Reader (2024-04-15)The post Five Stans 29 provides some background on Ashgabat. After yesterday’s smaller views (Five Stans 30), today is for larger views. CircusThe Turkmen State Circus is the main arena circus in the city, boasting a seating capacity of 1,700 seats. It is … Continue readingFive Stans 31 – Ashgabat – Larger Views
Dear Reader (2024-04-14)In the last post (Five Stans 29) I introduced Ashgabat, and you and I visited the surprising National Carpet Museum. In today’s post you and I wander along streets and pedestrian boulevards reveling in mostly smaller views. In the first image those same … Continue readingFive Stans 30 – Ashgabat – Urban Wander