How many seasons? The answer is FOUR. The Four Seasons resort in Tunisia (ten minutes up the road from us) for a birthday junket and a lil’ bit o’ luxury.
Travel
From Russia with love
Time travel with me to Russia. This is a trip from 2004 – before I blogged. Looking at the pictures brings it all back!
Favorite story
Bougainvillea, and a plea for us to get past partisanship and unite against the politicians playing us like a big ol’ xylophone.
Museum tour: The Bardo
Virtual Museum Tour: the Bardo in Tunis. Complete with female centaur, wine amphorae, and interchangeable heads.
It’s the Holidays!
Well, it was the holidays - I am just a teeny bit late. Our holiday began with the ugliest cinnamon bread ever. I brought Special Ingredients and Arcane Baking Equipment from the U.S. with the express goal of making these pretty little cinnamon bread cakey things in...
Visit to Tunis!
A heartily documented trip to some of the most beautiful sites in and around Tunis, the capital of Tunisia. Not to be missed!
Notional zebras and the big red bus: stories from an evaluation
Kilimanjaro from the air Two months in Nairobi, though it seemed like more. It's bad form to say so... but driving around Nairobi never put anyone in a good mood. Mostly it puts you at a standstill. And how come I was always on the side of the car with the hot sun...
Things you learn (or remember) in East Africa
Kampollyball I love volleyball. I haven't played for a long while, but I had occasion to play in Kampala again after a years-long break. Volleyball is my jam, despite the obvious hiccup that I am not very good at it. That fact is completely in character: I'm not good...
Where am I now?
Let's start where the last post left off... That was June, I'd been to the U.S. and back -- twice in two months -- and I needed my zombie time. But we'll skip forward a bit, as zombie time is boring. Messy fun vacations, on the other hand, are NOT boring. And we got...
Return to Tunis
I keep leaving Tunis – work trips, trips to see family, fun trips... Yesterday I left at noon-ish, arriving eighteen hours later in Atlanta. I’m excited to check out Atlanta, and see the Coca Coca World gift shop, but after a wee side trip to see Dad and Ethelyn, I’ll...