Category: Travel
Category: Travel
![Mexico City: Viva La Vida!](https://usercontent.one/wp/www.pastconnect.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Mexico-PS13.jpg?media=1670086848)
Mexico City: Viva La Vida!
Kahlo's famous painting of watermelons Inside the Kahlo's museum Embracing the past and the present, Mexico City pulsates with warmth ...
![All in a Flash Flood](https://usercontent.one/wp/www.pastconnect.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Temporary-Bridge-300x193.jpg?media=1670086848)
All in a Flash Flood
It’s August 2010 and I’m in a village called Domkhar Barma half way up the Domkhar Valley, western Ladakh. The ...
![Crossing the World's Most Dramatic Border](https://usercontent.one/wp/www.pastconnect.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/24iqbals-mausoleum-1.jpg-pix16.jpg?media=1670086848)
Crossing the World’s Most Dramatic Border
It's the world's most dramatic border. A nation cruelly divided as the British quit the subcontinent in 1947. Portraits of ...
![Looking for my Ancient Religion in Uzbekistan](https://usercontent.one/wp/www.pastconnect.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/meher_site_1593118522-300x169.jpg?media=1670086848)
Looking for my Ancient Religion in Uzbekistan
Still, I was in search of something more, something concrete, something material. Last October, I walked on the trail of ...
![Old Wisdom Dies Hard](https://usercontent.one/wp/www.pastconnect.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/St-Blaise-being-killed.jpg?media=1670086848)
Old Wisdom Dies Hard
One day our friend Tatyana who arranges guided tours in Moscow called us to ask if we would be interested ...
![Bilqis, the Queen of Sheba-vignettes from Yemen II](https://usercontent.one/wp/www.pastconnect.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Sanaa-Girls.JPG-GS-IX.jpg?media=1670086848)
Bilqis, the Queen of Sheba-vignettes from Yemen II
Bilqis Here's a, sadly blurry, picture of a painting that hung in my hotel room in San'a. Now, this may ...
![Caravanserai – vignettes from Yemen](https://usercontent.one/wp/www.pastconnect.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Scudder-in-Sanaa.jpg-GS-II-225x300.jpg?media=1670086848)
Caravanserai – vignettes from Yemen
Tower of Peace Trying to organize my generally messy life, I was working my way through some old boxes and ...
![Come to my Paradise](https://usercontent.one/wp/www.pastconnect.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Come-to-Anguilla-with-Me.jpg?media=1670086848)
Come to my Paradise
I was born in a little hospital located at the tallest point in Anguilla overlooking a dazzling blue sea. I ...