Last year, my wife and I visited (in a professional capacity) friends who at that time lived in a high-rise apartment building in Marrakesh....

My wife and I reached southern Spain’s Costa del Sol region on October 19th, staying until the 4th of November. Spain, coming out of...

In The Music Man, a wonderful work of musical theater to which I was much exposed as a child, the first scene begins with...

As I promised in my last post, my wife and I were in Dublin, Ireland, when that post went online. Every year we spend...

By the time I post this, I will be in Dublin, Ireland. This will be the beginning of a work trip to Spain and...

Torreón is a city in the center of the Mexican Plateau, a huge highland basin in the north of Mexico that lies between the...

“Let’s care for wildlife. Bird crossing.” One of the things I enjoy about going into nature with other birders is that we are all...

So my birding buddy who is a botany professor lives on his family’s seven hectares (17 acres), a mere ten minutes’ drive from my...