In China, there is a Panda Sanctuary in the City of Chengdu. This week, I’m sharing a few photos of the Giant Pandas and Lesser Pandas from there. (I talked about this in Chapter 17 of Tattoo.) They…
Monthly Archives: April 2015
Edinburgh
I took a sleeper train from London that arrived in Edinburgh at six o’clock in the morning. Nothing was open. No coffee shop; no nothing. (The doughnut places in my hometown always opened at five o’clock in the morning so…
Posted in World Glimpses
Travel Advice?
My teenage nephew was going to South America on some sort of group philanthropic endeavor. The day of his departure, he telephoned me and asked if I had any advice for him. My first rule on advice is to…
Posted in Travel Know How
Pittsburgh Paint
Pittsburgh. The picture in my mind was gray and dismal and dull. Fortunately, my mind’s picture was way out of focus. The neighborhood around Carnegie University does stay awake after 5pm while the Pittsburgh Penguins host evening hockey games. Unfortunately,…
Posted in Found in the USA
