Miami Beach, Florida, USA
Super-chic Miami Beach, an Art Deco heaven with sizzling beaches, great people watching & steamy nightlife.
Key West, Florida, USA
Laid-back, good-time Key West, somewhere closer to Cuba than mainland USA & somewhere a little different from the US norm.
Syria
Syria Reviewing A Pre-War-Torn Syria Crac des Chevaliers, Syria. May 7, 2008 ; One of my fondest travel memories of the recent past was of the days, in May 2008, that I spent in the Middle Eastern country of Syria. Like a lot of people around the world, I’ve...
Key West, Florida, USA || Happy 4th of July Y’all!
Celebrating American Independence Day & old friendships in Key West, Florida.
Central America || Be Gone
It seems like someone wants me out of here as soon as possible. The taxi driver rarely went below 160 km/h when covering the 26 kilometres between the Casco Viejo district of Panama City & the city’s Tocumen International Airport & with Sarah...
Casco Viejo, Panama City, Panama
Tonight is night four of four in the Central American country of Panama, night 53 of 53 in Central America (yes, I’ve just worked that out). I’m just back from taking a few pictures in the Casco Viejo district of Panama City, my very last stop in the...
Panama Canal, Panama, Central America
The French couldn’t built it so the Americans did instead. A pictorial look at the world’s most efficient shortcut, the Panama Canal in Central America.
Boquete, Panama, Central America
With time of the essence I was looking for somewhere that didn’t require me to deviate too far from the Pan-American Highway, the main artery through Panama, Central America, my seventh & final country on my north-to-south visit through the region. Boquete...
Costa Rica – Panama Border Crossing, Central America
I should have known better but once again I underestimated the slowness of Central American bus travel. After a whole day of travel yesterday to go a relatively small distance (the 200+ kilometres from Manuel Antonio to the Costa Rica / Panama border) I made it only...