I'm back in America and enjoying all the things I missed while living abroad. Among them, going to summer picnics with brats on the gri...

During our trip to the Crimea we stopped at the tiny little city of Balaklava which is located on the Black Sea.  During the Cold War the...

On the weekend before the 4th of July, the U.S. Embassy offices in Riga held a celebration in which Americans and their family could come an...

Roughly every month I collect the photos that didn't quite get their own post and bring them together in a single post. Past collection...

While visiting The Parthenon and its companion, The Acropolis Museum , we saw many of the marble sculptures that once adorned the inside o...

A couple of times during our travels this past year all of a sudden we are hit with something American out of the clear blue sky.  This was ...

While we were staying in London we stayed in the area of town called Little Venice .   It's an area that has several small canals...