As my world tour of 2004-05 continued I found myself in Jordan in February. At my modest hotel in Amman I enlisted the services of ‘Jimmy’. He was to be my driver for the time I was in Jordan. He would take me anywhere I wanted in the country, and we negotiated the fee for [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Adventures in Jordan
Posted in Jordan, Travel, Uncategorized, tagged Jordan, petra, Photography, Travel on August 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The High Road to Taos
Posted in High Road, Southwest USA, Travel, Uncategorized, tagged high road, new mexico, santa fe, Taos on August 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
You can take the highway between Santa Fe and Taos, New Mexico or you can take a much more scenic series of secondary roads, known collectively as the High Road, that will take you to some of the most interesting pueblos and missions in the state. As you gain elevation crossing the Sangre de Cristo [...]
Sri Lanka
Posted in Sri Lanka, Travel, tagged Sri Lanka, Travel on August 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today’s post contains a couple of images from Sri Lanka. It’s a beautiful island dangling off the end of the Indian sub-continent. A week-long trip through the cities of the interior, plus some more time spent on the fantastic beaches yielded quite a few photos and many more memories.
An elephant an it’s mahout walk toward [...]
Monument Valley
Posted in Monument Valley, Southwest USA, Travel, tagged arizona, Monument Valley, southwest, Travel on August 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Today’s selection is from a trip through the Southwest USA in June of 2006 (see other southwest posts). I camped overnight at the Monument Valley campground after a day of driving through the park. It was extremely windy and for much of the day the fine dust in the air obscured distant views and washed [...]
