Wanderlust Cafe

A sister ship to the African Queen, moored beneath a highway bridge over the Nile near Aswan in Egypt.  How many voyages up and down the river she must have made.  Now she lies still in her mooring, under the uncaring canopy of a modern steel and concrete bridge. 
She has had a most satisfying existence, [...]

Go, said the bird, for the leaves were full of children,
Hidden excitedly, containing laughter.
– T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets
Accidental photo alchemy, a hurried photo from a moving bus.  The park in Dominica was full of people on that warm island day.
Best I could do was snap a photo, and try to figure it all out [...]

Some signs are for you.  And some signs aren’t for you.
This sign on Eastbound Interstate 70 in eastern Utah doesn’t seem to be for me.  I have pondered and pondered it for several years since first seeing it.  Carefully noted its location about 1 mile east of the Moab turnoff.  Slowed down to try to [...]

One of the men told me he thought well of Cairo.  It was interesting.  “Take it from me,” he said, “there’s a lot in seeing places, because you can remember ‘em afterward.”
– Rudyard Kipling
This was a hurried moment in downtown Cairo.  Captured while rushing past many intriguing stores and shops on a quest for some [...]

Hidden in the corner of another picture, I find a little vignette.  Reflections from a shop window in the Kastro town on the Greek island of Milos.
When I looked at this picture for the first time in a long time, I immediately saw the object of my desire, a little Greek goddess doll who was [...]