Category: Uncategorized

I arrive into Bangalore at night and feel like I am coming home when I enter Gayathri’s home. But I have little time to explore the urban changes, as Gayathri,… Read more »

From the sands of the Arabian Peninsula, I fly to the heart of tropical India on the North Kerala Coast, to Kannur, chosen for a few days of quiet and… Read more »

When we arrived at our 7900 feet altitude, acclimation was necessary and we did not start our first excursion until the following afternoon. We drove to the Valley of the… Read more »

What makes the Atacama region so remarkable is not only that it includes the highest desert and clearest night skies in the world but that it displays a remarkable variation… Read more »

We are in Chile.  The crossing from Argentina was classic:  the Chilean border officer’s computer broke down so we stood outside in cold weather for well over an hour together… Read more »

Tourists flock to the burgeoning city of El Calafate mainly in order to visit the Pepito Moreno Glacier, a massive glacier which, when I was here in 2014, was the… Read more »

We are heading now to El Chalten, from the dry grassy plains beloved by the guanacos to the high mountains of the Andes whose glaciers bring water to the dry… Read more »

A cerulean blue ocean is outside my window in this exceptional location in Patagonia.  Bahia Bustamante is a small collection of buildings developed by an immigrant who started a seaweed… Read more »

Buenos Aires, the port city of the Saint providing good winds, is a bright urban center, buzzing with commercial enterprise, very European in look and feel.  I arrive at our… Read more »