Like nomads, but with more stuff

One of the many blessings of annual trips home is we appreciate our country in ways that people who don't leave it for extended periods...

It's summer in the foreign service, which means we are on a several week whirlwind trip to see as much family and as many friends as po...

There was a conference that was supposed to be held in Nepal, but then the earthquake happened, and it got moved to Istanbul.  And then I...

Well, picnics and fireworks and red, white and blue weren't in tonight's plan here in Astana but I did manage to get a little of ...

It has been quite a week for us, Astana Airport. It all started when my flight from Istanbul touched down at 6am on Friday morning. You...

One of the days we were in England we went into Hexham and it turns out a spring fete was going on.  There was live music in a park, and ...

The peacocks like biscuits ("cookie" to you Yanks ... well, um ... us Yanks)  It must be mating season because the two males wi...

When we went to England, we were desperate to find a book long enough to keep Alex's attention for more than an hour because we didn...

My dad knows a guy ... he's got some sheep. Well, he had about 700, then they all bear twins so now it's more like 1200 or someth...

You just can't spend time in northern England without checking out Hadrian's Wall. And it turns out one of the better sites is o...