Fenghuang, P.R.C. (April 2009)

Photo by Peter Rimar.

Street Scene in Fenghuang, China (April 2009)

...wanderlust...

"The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization." ~ Frank Lloyd Wright

Kings Cross Train Station, London, England (March 2012).
Photo by Peter Rimar.

Does anybody know the phone numbers to Rush Limbaugh's pharmacists?

I had a sudden urge to wear a polyester, wild print disco shirt with bell bottom pants. Thankfully, it passed rather quickly...

Mr. Lee singing "Man in the Mirror"

July 2009

Seoul, R.O.K.

"People who don't travel cannot have a global view, all they see is what's in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live." ~ Martin Yan

Stonehenge, England (March 2012)

Our Digital Age?

It's hard to imagine a world without the internet, Facebook, Twitter, international air travel, talk radio, 24/7 television news channels, digital cameras, voice activated software, cell phones and GPS...

The Library of Congress recently published a digital collection of images from one of the early pioneers of photography. Between 1905 and 1915, Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii traveled the far reaches of the Russian Empire on behalf of Tsar Nicholas II. His task was to visually document a country undergoing a rapid transformation. Read More...

After the Bolshevik Revolution, the photographer left Russia and eventually settled in Paris. In 1948, the Library of Congress purchased his work from his heirs. Because of the unique techniques he developed and used to photograph and then process glass plate negatives (digichromatography), up until now, these images could only be viewed within the confines of the Library itself. With advances in digital photography, it's now possible to take a glimpse of a world soon to be swept away by war, revolution and industrialization. View Collection Here...

Rights and Restrictions Information

Dancing with Turks?

Operation Restore Hope
Egyptian Soldiers, Mogadishu, Somalia (January 1994).

"Taking time to sit back and watch and think about what you've seen is important. Traveling did a great deal to me. I found that when I travel and just sit in the corner and watch, a million ideas come to me."
~ Lionel Richie

"If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?"
~ John Wooden

Big Ben at Sunset, London, England

...wanderlust...

"Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up."
~ Ernest Hemingway

"Travel teaches toleration."
~ Benjamin Disraeli

"Never go on trips with anyone you do not love."
~ Ernest Hemingway

Blogger's view from a sleeper car window on a Chinese Train

between Beijing and Shenzhen (June 2008).

Why is it that even when everybody speaks English, everything I say still gets "Lost in Translation"?

Wall Street Journal
New cognitive research suggests that language profoundly influences the way people see the world
by Lera Boroditsky
July 23, 2011


"It turns out that if you change how people talk, that changes how they think. If people learn another language, they inadvertently also learn a new way of looking at the world."
Read More...

Last year, my wife finally retired her "I'm with STUPID" T-Shirt.

...wanderlust...

"The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination." 
~ Don Williams, Jr.

Blogger's Breakfast in a Dining Car?

Somewhere between Beijing and Shenzhen, PRC (June 2008)