Face Photos from Readers
Thanks to John Whitman for this slightly dismayed face from downtown Ottawa.
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Photo Memory of the Week
Posted: 2025 Mar 28
Tag Archives: Travel
What’s in a Name?
Some thoughts on names and swamps and names of swamps. Continue reading
The Thing that Goes, “Braack!”
A rockhounding trip to the Mojave Desert leads to several new experiences. Continue reading
Two Down
Travel may expand my consciousness; it does little for my mental acuity in the here-and-now. Continue reading
My Summer Vacation
A selective recap of our journey across the Canadian Shield–Arctic fireweed, pulp and paper mills, and giant walleyes–and musings about opportunities taken as well as missed. Continue reading
Good Thing, Too Much Of
Musings on the state of Canadian geography after three days spent traversing a pathetically small portion of the Canadian Shield. Continue reading
Wit and Wisdom in Wyoming
“Ah, Wyoming. It makes Nebraska look picturesque.” Dismissing both Wyoming and Nebraska with one practiced parry, the wit represents the confluence of heritage (Italian), upbringing (New Jersey), and training (courtroom litigation). But, as we find to our sorrow the next … Continue reading
Humble Pie
They don’t have Pepsiâ„¢. Well, maybe that’s a little sweeping. In the spirit of Heinlein’s Fair Witnesses, let me amend that statement to reflect precisely what I saw or, more accurately, did not see. In four weeks in the major … Continue reading
Unusual
“Is that a tip?” The speaker is the desk manager at our hotel in Rotorua, a seismically active area of New Zealand. Well, an area where the country’s ubiquitous seismic activity shows in the form of steam vents, geysers, acidic … Continue reading
Say What?
And we’re coming up on the county symmetry, on the left. As we boogie down the highway, our guide is narrating notable bits in our surroundings, as usual, and I am listening oh so carefully, also as usual. OK, my … Continue reading
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