Earthly Musings - My Travel and Geology Blog

Our whirlwind trip "Around The World" came to a fitting end while cruising in the Galapagos Islands. It was here in 1835 that Char...

Our first stop in the southern hemisphere is the old capital of Brazil, Bahia de Salvador. Once the port for the slave trade and the sugar f...

I hope you won't mind if I do not write too much. The trip is nearing its end and to tell you the truth, I am exhausted. Remember that I...

Here are some images of Fez, Morocco and its bustling medina. The medina in Arabic is simply “the neighborhood” and the medina of Fez is the...

The storied land of Egypt has long beckoned travelers whose insatiable appetite to see and experience the world’s oldest existing monuments ...

So let’s see. So far we’ve been to Japan, our feared adversary in WW II, Vietnam, no need to elaborate there, India, threatening to steal ev...

Our local guide here was telling us about the arranged marriages that still are a way of life throughout India. 90% of all marriages are sti...

November 3 - Rajasthan Our jet landed in the Indian desert province of Rajasthan on November 2. At once we were whisked away by small bus 80...

November 1, 2007 Viet Nam receives anywhere from 100 to 120 inches of rain a year (three times the amount of Seattle or New York!). One four...

On Halloween, we landed in Dan Nang, Vietnam. Yes, that Da Nang and that Vietnam. I first heard the word Vietnam in 1964 from television rep...

Held sacred by modern Japanese, Kyoto embodies all that is ancient and all that is new in Japan. Looking at the picture books of this shrine...

Sitting in the Fairmont Olympic Hotel in downtown Seattle, the trip "Around the World" is about to begin! Last night we had our We...

Some of you may have heard already. Many obviously have not. But while standing beneath Mt. Everest at an elevation of 18,500 feet, Helen an...

Well, after 23 days Helen and I will be flying out of Kathmandu today. It has been an incredible jountrney! Trekking in the highest mountain...