Two sets of heavy steel enforced concrete doors closed off the tunnel descending into the bunker. The kids and I leaned back and put some muscle into pulling the inner door. It creaked slowly shut. Air raid sirens blared and the lights went out as the walls seemed to shutter with explosions on the surface.Continue reading “A Nuclear Bunker Hideout and $10000 Vaccine”
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The Stegosaurus and Covid-01
Hidden among Cambodia’s ancient temples is an 800-year old carving of what is assumed to be a stegosaurus, a dinosaur that went extinct 150 million years ago. Rather, the carving depicts an even more obscure creature, the elusive pangolin, a scale covered ant eater that can be found in the jungles of Cambodia. This creatureContinue reading “The Stegosaurus and Covid-01”
Life on a Distant Planet
My father once lived in a small hippy town in New Mexico where the locals liked to make clay pots and sell them, grow pot and sell it, and talk about the 60s while they all smoked pot and admired their pots. Then he moved to a remote mountainous region of the state which wasContinue reading “Life on a Distant Planet”
Flying into a Storm
Although not a literal storm (this time), we got on a plane and flew into just about the last place I would want to be in January of 2021: home. We have done so much traveling that when our kids refer to “home,” they mean whichever apartment or Airbnb we are currently staying at. AsContinue reading “Flying into a Storm”
The Rugs, Jellyfish and Cats of Istanbul
Istanbul is one giant city spread across two continents. With a population of over fifteen million people, the city extends for miles both east and west of the narrow Bosphorus Straight, the dividing line between Europe and Asia. Sultanahmet is old Istanbul, the walled city that existed here since the time the city was namedContinue reading “The Rugs, Jellyfish and Cats of Istanbul”
Trojan Horse
The Black Sea can only be accessed from the Mediterranean via a 61-kilometer long narrow strip of water called the Dardanelles Straight and this has been an area of strategic importance for millennia. Thousands of years ago the straight was busy with trading ships passing through and the great city of Troy grew and prosperedContinue reading “Trojan Horse”
The Last True Believer
Only two of the original seven wonders of the ancient world still remain in any form. In all my travels I have not yet seen a single one of these until now. And this one, the Great Temple of Artemis, has barely survived the ravages of time itself. Ephesus, founded by the Amazon queen EphesiaContinue reading “The Last True Believer”
City of Snakes
At one point in time the leaders of two countries sat down and signed a legal document, shook hands and then got started on some fully legal ethnic cleansing. To be exact, the plan worked out to be a religious cleansing more than ethnic. Millions of people would be forced out of their homes andContinue reading “City of Snakes”
The Real Santa Claus
Endless farms dot the rolling hills rising out of the Demre River Valley. An ancient port here was abandoned thousands of years ago when alluvial silts filled in the harbor. The once great port is now little more than marshland, but the silts have made for great farmland. After trying some fresh squeezed pomegranate juiceContinue reading “The Real Santa Claus”
The Lycian Way
The rock tombs have survived for thousands of years in the mountains of Lycia. Everything else has been lost to time so that very little is understood about the people that once inhabited this land. Once known as the Land of Light, the civilization that existed here thousands of years ago was quite a bitContinue reading “The Lycian Way”
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