A few Images from the Streets of Carmel by the Sea
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Fault Lines in the Old City
Jerusalem reads like a jigsaw puzzle frozen in mid-assembly, comprising pieces that don’t quite match up. Both because, and in spite of this, it’s a place of deep fascination. It’s a city divided by fault lines across dimensions of scale, culture, and religion. Some are marked by roads or walls, old and new, others by […]
This is Different
It’s the first time I’ve experienced this. I’ve racked up lifetime air miles equivalent to 20 round trips to the moon. I’ve spent time in several dozen countries, and even done a previous month-long vacation. But this is different. The experience of continuous surface travel, over a period long enough for time to slow, and […]
Postcard from the Suez Canal
In passage from The Red Sea to The Mediterranean Facts about the Suez Canal: There are no locks; it is at sea level for its entire extent It took 10 years to build, and opened for operation in 1869 Its current capacity 47 ships per day, who make the passage in one way convoys, north […]
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