This is the last blog of a series of 16 blogs and YouTube videos, introducing Joshua Slocum, first person to solo sail around the world...

(Hue, Vietnam, part 2) Emperors and gods are sometimes (usually!) indistinguishable. In Asia, and especially looming China, central...

I have always wanted to ask a puppet, in private, what it is like to be enslaved and forced to do its master’s bidding, subject to being...

Hanoi (Ha Noi, “river’s inner”) is a large sprawling beehive(s) of activity, spotted with large construction projects and relentless...

Cristobal Colon (Christopher Columbus) never set foot or planted the flag for the Crown of Castille on North America. However, he found...

Before leaving Iran, it is only fitting in a way that I/we step away from the beauty and progressive qualities on display in the country...

On the western side of Isfahan’s grand square looms the Ali Qapu, a towering pavilion topped by pillars, under reconstruction, and behind...

It's early morning, late September. I stride across Meidan-e Shah Square (the massive Royal Square) in old town Esfahan (or Isfahan),...

In the wilderness about 200 miles south of Tehran is a place called “Half of the World.” Ishfahan, twice the capital of Persia, was the...

Shiraz, Iran is a poet's (Hafiz's) oasis, where the art of Islam has prominence

I arrived at the ruins of Persepolis, near Shiraz, with great anticipation. The skies were clear and the sun burned hot even in...

Tomb of Cyrus the Great (all photos are my own) “O man, whoever you are and wherever you come from, for I know you will come, I am Cyrus...