I Came Back Home

After seven months and more than 27 countries, I'm retiring the blog.  Thanks to those who followed along.

If you are visiting for the first time, have a look around.  You'll find photos and stories from, among other things:

• a 5500-mile trek across the USA, 
• an overland journey across southern Africa (Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, Congo DRC, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Malawi, Tanzania), 
• travels throughout Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt. 

Plus, there's a whirlwind tour of the Balkans, photos from Qatar, Malta, Italy, Germany, and Spain, a chimpanzee orphanage, graffiti from Belgrade and Rome, Congolese medical clinics, three trips to the Sahara, an unusual school in Zimbabwe, and lots more.

Enjoy.  

Milano

Looks like a spaceship.

What's hot right now in Milan?  Puffy, shiny coats -- either black, purple, or navy blue.  And romance.

Bye-Bye Rome

Castel Sant' Angelo just before sunset.

The same sculpture I showed you in my first Rome post, but at a different angle and with different light.

How I felt in almost every church.

One of my personal favorites.

Sant'Ignazio

Standing on the special yellow circle on the ground, you look up and see this.

Not that different from many other churches around town.  Except this dome is perfectly flat -- it's an illusion. Here's how it looks from directly underneath.

The Birds

Over the Tiber at dusk.

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And Number 1 in the Modern Roman Art Countdown goes to "Here is Photo Opportunity."

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OK, 4's actually a tie.  Here's the other number 4.

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