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Leadville, Colorado

Leadville, Colorado

Western United States · 2026 · 235 photos

Wandering around, it's hard to miss the brooding aura of the coast. Signs warning you to stay back from the cliff? You're kidding, right?

Sydney, Nova Scotia

Canada · 2026 · 234 photos

Here's where it gets it name.

Trinidad 2026

Trinidad · 2026 · 134 photos

Slightly different angle.

The Shire Highlands, Malawi

Malawi · 2026 · 140 photos

The story is that the lava flowed around the tomb of a virgin, sparing it. "When I first visited the spot, in 1920, the concrete slab and a

Savai'i, Samoa

Samoa · 2025 · 52 photos

We're approaching Fagaloa Bay, which Adams called "the finest scenery I have seen in these islands... an exquisite spot" Adams, pp. 353-354.

Upolu, Samoa

Samoa · 2025 · 163 photos

You can run faster than the train moves.

Fiji 2

Fiji · 2025 · 89 photos

Here's the other side. That would be Pola Island.

American Samoa

Samoa · 2025 · 99 photos

The building's architect was Austin W. Lord, director of the school of architecture at Columbia University. He wanted something grander tha

1 Panama City

Panama · 2025 · 119 photos

Think it's a Roman ruin? No, it's New Cristobal's Union Baptist Church, built in 1921.

2 Colón, Panama

Panama · 2025 · 95 photos

15 beeline miles north, we're at Portobelo and the Santiago Fort. Surely pirates could be kept out of this bottle-shaped bay. Not quite.

3 Old Towns of Panama's Caribbean Side

Panama · 2025 · 55 photos

Yikes! We're about four miles from the Pacific Ocean. This can't be real, you say, but it is: a Cunard Queen approaches the Miraflores Lock

4. The Panama Canal

Panama · 2025 · 72 photos

A sign explains that the structure was enclosed in a larger home built about 1900 and was only discovered when that larger home was demolish

Rural California 7, State Route 49

Western United States · 2025 · 396 photos

The approach to Arequipa from Lima. The coast is dry as a bone, but wherever water comes down from the Andes, somebody catches it.

Arequipa, Peru

Peru · 2024 · 25 photos

Heading east out of Arequipa on Route 34A.

Puno and Pomata, Peru

Peru · 2024 · 33 photos

Highway 115 offers one of the two standard routes from Arequipa to the coast. The view is eastward here, with the highway making a huge loo

Mollendo, Peru

Peru · 2024 · 21 photos

We're inland less than a mile from the coast and looking toward high rises mostly along the coast.

Miraflores, Peru

Peru · 2024 · 5 photos

Rio Rimac, 500 feet north of Peru's presidential palace.

Lima, Peru

Peru · 2024 · 25 photos

These guys want some too.

Chimbote and Caral, Peru

Peru · 2024 · 27 photos

The cathedral.

Trujillo, Moche, and El Brujo, Peru

Peru · 2024 · 42 photos

Chiclayo's plaza and the Santa Maria cathedral, 1869-1939.

Chiclayo, Chotuna, and Las Balsas, Peru

Peru · 2024 · 21 photos

Cancun's airport sees 34 million passengers annually, which is just about the same as DFW or Denver or O'Hare or LAX. I'd call that a bad s

Yucatan 1: Merida and Uxmal

Mexico · 2024 · 83 photos

We've jumped a dozen miles from Uxmal to the much quieter ruins at Kabah, connected to Uxmal not only by a modern road but by a straight pro

Yucatan 2: From Kabah to Calakmul

Mexico · 2024 · 87 photos

It's the palace or temple of five stories. Call me a barbarian, but I see kids playing peekaboo or hide-and-seek.

Yucatan 3: Campeche and Edzna

Mexico · 2024 · 34 photos

Here we are just east of downtown Reno and enjoying the Truckee River on its cheerful way from Lake Tahoe to Pyramid Lake.

Virginia City, Nevada

Western United States · 2024 · 79 photos

Long haul from Dallas to Bolivia's Santa Cruz de la Sierra, via Sao Paulo. The alternative is to arrive at La Paz, but that means arriving

Bolivia

Bolivia · 2024 · 276 photos

We're at the head of the Krishna River's delta and looking at the Prakasam Barrage, a modern replacement of a low dam built by the British i

Buddhist Andhra

Peninsular India · 2024 · 125 photos

We're heading north from the airport. Slow, crowded, interminable.

Calcutta 7: 2024

Northern India · 2024 · 72 photos

No, it's not fog. The air-quality index is a bit over 300 today.

Delhi 14: 2024

Northern India · 2024 · 20 photos

Many houses are empty, with their owners in Kohima or elsewhere and returning to Khonoma only on holidays. Still, somebody is taking care o

Nagaland, Northeastern India

Northern India · 2024 · 149 photos

It's hard to see the deities portrayed on the tower but easy to see the stone work of the gopuram base. It crams so many elements together

Cauvery Temples 1. Ranganatha

Peninsular India · 2023 · 27 photos

We can get away from that stuff. There are several pools on the grounds.

Cauvery Temples 2. Jambukeshwara

Peninsular India · 2023 · 25 photos

How can we not look at this and think of the man-hours that went into it? Followed perhaps by the a little prayer of thanks for the Industr

Cauvery Temples 3. Thanjuvur

Peninsular India · 2023 · 20 photos

An Immaculate wall, even modern if you overlook the little Nandis up top. This is the Airavatesvara Temple at Darasuram, just outside Kunba

Cauvery Temples 4. Kumbakonam

Peninsular India · 2023 · 34 photos

We're between Kumbakonam and Chidambaram and at the parking lot in front of the jawbreaking Gangaikondacholapuram Temple. Built by Rajendra

Cauvery Temples 5. Gangaikondacholapuram

Peninsular India · 2023 · 26 photos

The old road from Kumbakonam to Chidambaram.

Cauvery Temples 6. Chidambaram

Peninsular India · 2023 · 13 photos