…ucational experience in which I will see many new places and learn lots of new things. I don’t know too much about the places I will be going, especially the mysterious Caucasus. I have done a lot of research though and here is a brief overview of the region. The Caucasus or Caucasia is a region in Eurasia bordered on the north by Russia, on the southwest by Turkey, on the west by the Black Sea, on the east by the Caspian Sea, and on the south by…
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A Collapse For the Ages
October 1, 2007 by 15 Comments
…t be more fitting or more amusing. Being a huge baseball fan and living in New York City, which has two professional teams, the Mets and of the course the mighty Yankees, yesterday was either a bitter day of disgust or a day to laugh at all that is the disaster of the Mets. As a Yankees fan who has enjoyed more than a decade of success and had already qualified for yet another run at a World Series last week-yesterday was fun just to watch the roa…
Darfur
October 19, 2007 by 3 Comments
…ion of the military component of UNAMID no later than August 30, 2007. A renewed Darfur peace process: In order to achieve a permanent end to the genocide in Darfur, the effort to find a political solution must be renewed. A peace agreement must create the following four conditions: (1) a secure environment that allows displaced persons to return to their homes-if they chose to do so; (2) a sustainable political agreement embraced by all armed gro…
Belfast, Northern Ireland
October 25, 2007 by 4 Comments
…a previous entry for Lake Titicaca I believe, he was robbed at gunpoint and was stuck in Peru for weeks while trying to get a new passport, green card and cash. Well it is now time for me to take a nap as I have not slept since leaving New York yesterday evening. However, I first must stop at my favorite spot to eat in the UK, Pizza Express. I really should open one of them in New York, they are so good. Anyway, that’s it from Belfast…off to the I…
2008 Australian Open
January 14, 2008 by 6 Comments
…and the Aussie Open is the grand slam where you have the best chance at a new random face winning the tournament, see Thomas Johannsen or Petr Korda. This year they changed the surface of the courts from rebound ace to some ugly colored synthetic material that slows the ball down a bit for no good reason really. Some of the players including Federer are not thrilled with this innovation because that doesn’t suit his game as well as the faster cou…
The Sultanate of Oman
February 5, 2008 by 8 Comments
…Also, what I have discovered most about myself this trip is that I live in New York, an ever changing modern city that still retains a lot of old charm and a lot of variety which for me is great and makes it a fun and an interesting place to be. But I could never move to be a packrat in a place like the new Gulf. It seems people here are under a controlled, pre-packaged spell of obliviousness toward this very fact of conformity regarding the type…
Ville de Montréal
March 3, 2008 by 3 Comments
…Mount Royal. The main entrance at Sherbrooke Street has great backdrops for pictures and the campus is great to walk around in the summer. Montréal and Québec in general is a great place to visit. I have been to Montréal seven times now and love it more each time. It is such a nice break from New York and so easy to get to. If you don’t feel like driving, you can take an hour flight from LaGuardia and Montréal is accessible from all over the US a…
Planning a Trip to the US
March 6, 2008 by 1 Comment
…cessible gateway from most of Europe. The other great thing about visiting New York for travelers is that it is well positioned to visit the rest of the Northeast Corridor cities, which are Boston, Philadelphia and Washington be it by train, bus or air. You could even hit smaller cities like Providence or Baltimore and if you are here during the summer there is no shortage of awesome beaches and great beach towns to visit from Massachusetts all th…
Finding Cheap Fares
March 13, 2008 by 4 Comments
…e specified, they can give me great ideas for future trips and let me know new places to look for deals and new sites and hotels, etc. Finally, bounce ideas off your travel partners because everyone has their favorite sites to look at and your friends might find deals that you didn’t see. Just yesterday, my friend calls me up and tells me of this great deal on Cathay Pacific to Hong Kong and then onward from there. Who knows if we will actually go…
Adding Passport Pages
May 2, 2008 by 12 Comments
If you have a new US passport with the new electronic chip in them, you are probably aware that they no longer allow the 48 page passports. I don’t know the reason for this. It really makes no sense. If you are a frequent traveler and have a bunch of visas, stamps, amendments, etc. then you will fill up a regular passport very quickly. That means that you have to get additional pages put into your passport which requires going through an annoying…
