Stop: Back at the office. It has been a year. And, what a year it has been. But, it is time to return-to-office and get back to work. It was a cold, grey, rainy first day of April and of the new school year. First years wandering around and older students trying to recruit them…
From Wikimedia Commons. After disembarking from KM DORO LONDA, I walked out of the part and up to my hotel. This gave me a quick impression of the city. Though Ternate was a very powerful sultanate and a center of the spice trade, these days that has mostly been layered over with a typical regional…
Cloves. They came from Ternate and Tidore. They brought war and invaders to the islands. The Sultanates of each are still here, and now so was I. After an extended boat ride. PELNI, the national ferry company, has a huge network of long haul ferries that connect the vast archipelago. Local, short-haul ferries may run…
Started in July 2024 and updated continuously… Internet is not really sufficient at the moment here in Sekongkang, Sumbawa for a lot of image upload or reliable saving of works-in-progress. However, good enough for some text and a few links to Open Street Maps. I’ve hit a few islands recently, and thought I’d better make…
September 6 to December 6. Three months was a long time. Felt longer than I expected. Covered a lot of ground. It was a great exploration of the world and of myself. Below, is one photograph for each place I visited. Many of these I did not write about (yet). Too busy experiencing. (Also, some…
(Stop: Teatrul Național de Operă și Balet „Maria Bieșu” (National Opera and Ballet “Maria Bieșu“) Day 235) When I arrived in Chisinau by train, one of the people who shared my compartment had her husband waiting for her at the station and they drove me and another passenger to our hotels. Which was very nice.…
(Stops: All over town starting at Hotel Lidia. Day 231) It was a beautiful, clear, sunny early winter day, so perfect to wander around a bit. I had just one destination, the Museum of Ethnography and Natural History, and the rest was just … let’s go look at that. Lots of late nineteenth century architecture…
(Stops: Kunsthalle, Budapest and a random sidewalk in Bucharest Days 185 and 225) When I was in Budapest, I caught this small but very cool exhibition of works by János Géczi. I had never heard of this incredibly wide-ranging academic, poet, and visual artist. That’s what travel does for you. New ideas and experiences that…
I went to a conference at Hofstra six years ago and along the way stopped in at MOMA for a really cool exhibition–Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980. This was one of the seeds for this leg of the trip. It was a heckuva lot of Brutalism, spomeniks, and some Japanese Metabolism to…
Stops: Tiny Home Kotor Kecil, Church of Our Lady of Remedy, Tvrđava St. Ivan (St. John’s Fortress) (Days 198-199) When your online friends who have been to Montenegro say things like, “I assume you are going to Kotor.” and “You simply must go to Kotor. I can’t stress this enough.” the bar is pretty high.…
