"I looked for you last night," said the flat owner. "I was going to a party." "Oh," I spoke quickly, with a ne...

I did it! I invested 17 euros in a Tin-Tin caganer. I'm still not altogether sure I need this, but Edward Readicker-Henderson suggeste...

I am a little bored here, all alone in Barcelona. So tonight I took a field trip up to Sagrada Familia, Gaudi's eternally under-constru...

Today in Spain, I: 1) Did my laundry. 2) Picked up a CD for Nabeel in Kuwait. 3) Picked up some absinthe for a friend in the States. 4) Sat ...

Spanky and Captain M saw me off to my three a.m. flight. "You never know what will happen," said Captain M. "Maybe they will ...

I couldn't sleep after the mosque called Cairo to its early morning fast, then finally fell into a restless dreamy state, where I ran in...

If you've been reading this blog a while, you know that I like the pillowcases made by the Egyptian tentmakers. Last time I was in Cair...

Here's the inside of a Cairo black taxi. These taxis would be illegal in the States. They'd never pass any safety inspection and cer...

How did it get to be the end already? I never even used my guidebooks to neighboring countries! I didn't get out to see much in Cairo th...

Years ago, I used to send off for American University in Cairo course catalogs. What year was this? I'm not sure. It must have been 1983...