Just came back from Sri Lanka. (The war is over! Yippee!) I hit a bookstore, a tea factory, an elephant sanctuary, a restaurant on the edge of a cliff, a gem museum, an ayurvedic herb garden, and finally, the Temple of the Tooth in Kandy ( Read more... )

Time for miscellaneous Dubai, Sri Lanka, and Morocco! The first picture is Bahrain by air (I think). Then it goes Dubai, Dubai, my Christmas presents from Don, Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka, Morocco. Money.


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This museum is more like a warehouse, but it's full of valuable and beautiful treasures. Some of the shrines and buddhas were actually made of gold or completely covered in diamonds. (Sorry, no pictures.) There were elephant tusks that were about 6 feet long, which probably came from elephant graveyards rather than from living elephants. Don says ( Read more... )

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As I said before, I've taken to making videos of my layovers, rather than my trademark digicam photos. I'm afraid this might compromise the tradition of my blog, but I sure do feel clever when I turn those videos into attention-deficit music videos worthy of MTV ( Read more... )