Cordoba Culture
The largest and most beautiful city in Europe in the 1200’s still shines but slightly tarnished by its political history. The culture that made it rich, the Arabic and Jewish… Read more »
Toledo
Like many old city towns which needed defense, the old heart of Toledo stands on a hill with a river on two sides and fortified walls on the others. It… Read more »
Visiting Moorish Spain 2016
Another visit to a land of great beauty and violent history, traveling to the important medieval cities of Spain, Toledo, Cordoba, Grenada, and Seville; seeing in person the wonders created… Read more »
On the Road Home
Along the road from Mpika to Lusaka on an 8 hour car ride (ah, sort of smooth asphalt) on the last leg of our journey and my last post for… Read more »
Bengwuelu Park & Mpika
I am in a tent under a full moon in the Bangweulu Wetlands Park in Zambia. We are the only ones camping here — we are the only car… Read more »
North Luangwa Park
Flying in a 6-seater chartered Cessna prop plane, Laura, Tom, Melanie and myself fly North to the least developed and isolated game park in Zambia, the North Luangwa Park. … Read more »
Mnkhanya Chiefdom
Outside the boundaries of the South Luangwa Park, lies a protected zone with six historical tribal areas of different sizes each ruled by a chief and each tribe has a… Read more »
South Luangwa Park
It is night and I am lying in my bed under a mosquitos net in a large tent at my camp near the South Luangwa Park listening to the sounds… Read more »
Kawaza Village
I am on my bed, a thin mattress on a woven mat on a packed earth floor, in a small round thatched hut with conical thatched roof, in the Kawaza… Read more »
Lusaka
Today we met with the people of the “People’s Process for Homeless and Poverty” in their compound of George in Lusaka, the capital of Zambia. George was settled many years… Read more »