Echoes

... , with a short stop-over in Sydney to lay flowers at the grave of Canada's pathetic amateur athletics program. From the fading echoes of Olympic glory, to the warrior chants of the proud Maori, we offer to you this simple story, and we've run ...

... ." -Giotto di Bondone   This sentiment seems fitting for the goal of my time here in Rome, studying ancient Roman history and archaeology.  For the time being, I'm just enjoying hearing the echoes of the Eternal City.    Ciao, ...

After 2 days of travelling from Xi'an we arrived in Xiahe (in the Gansu province, west of Xi'an). This small town has many Tibetan monks, lots of Prayer Wheels, monasteries and nunneries and is set in a valley surrounded by mountains. We arrived Monday ...

We arrived at the small Lijiang Airport quite late at night and were whisked off by taxi to our hotel. Unlike our hotel in Chengdu, the hotel in Lijiang said we could complete formalities the next day and so we were able to get to bed at a decent time. ...

Well Cortina is the fancy heart of the Italian Dolomites, a tourist mecca like Banff but with a very different feel. We arrived late and in the rain, our packs weighing very heavily as we walked out of town to find our campground. Perhaps we should have ...

I got up at 5:30am and prepared for today's trip to Corregidor Island. The hotel had an excellent breakfast buffet of Japanese noodles, various egg dishes, and yes, fried chicken. I know the tour office is close by, but the reception lady just tells me ...

Today we drove south and stopped at Chancellorsville, Wilderness, and Fredericksburg battlefields, before continuing to colonial Williamsburg. It is undoubtedly the finest restoration I've ever seen. We heard several interpretive ...

Сегодня я в бывшей французской колонии – ...

I guess you know you're a software nerd when you move everything out of your apartment but a backpack, a blanket, a laptop, and your cable modem setup. Come on, people. I can't be disconnected yet! I gotta purchase last minute crap off Amazon Prime and ...

Our plan today was to investigate the port area, home of the 2007 America's Cup challenge. Paolo had given us directions to the metro station, which turned out to be about 15 minutes walk away (so we were glad we hadn’t lugged our suitcases from ...

... Ball Court towards the Temple of Venus at the speed of sound. The call of birds surrounds me, consumes me: the echoes, the echoes of echoes, imprinting themselves on my mind and resonates in my ear long after the birdsong has finally stopped - or did ...

... end of the day pulls up the opposite door like a garage door. We step into a dark cave of cold air and wet stone. Rushing water echoes around us.  Ahead of us is a stairway. The stairway goes up 3 stories. We've ended our 6 hour hike with a walk of ...

... space is three stories - on the top floor the sound of a scary television surrounded by empty white couches cycles audio and echoes down the stairs. Here I find more of Kris’s work and Megan’s wicked collection of photos. Originally I’d ...

... but always deny. DENIAL is the name of the game. IGNORANCE is the name of the disease. As I tread this ancient land, I hear those echoes louder than ever. I'm told to listen to them, and to what they don't say. Read (and listen) between the lines. It's ...

... to be a type of India/Yemen ferry, everyone waving, Next night Pathfinder confirmed more floating nets, and we spotted 2 pairs of echoes, (nets?) diverted round them, but as we did so under full sail heard an eerie scraping sound as what I think ...

... to be a type of India/Yemen ferry, everyone waving, Next night Pathfinder confirmed more floating nets, and we spotted 2 pairs of echoes, (nets?) diverted round them, but as we did so under full sail heard an eerie scraping sound as what I think ...

... holy so everyday there is a hive of activity around it. From  pilgrims bathing, offerings, blessings, playing of Tablas that echoes around the lake and very bad singing that is blasted over loud tannoys (until about 2am). It does get very hectic ...

... but only one that had been cleared.  They were lined up along the four cardinal points and even covered with trees provided good echoes - something Tikal was famous  for, as its name means city of voices or echoes. Then we  moved along a ...