Latest Update: February 2024
You’ll find stories and pictures of wonderful places around the world, excerpts from my books Grounded, Tsunami Cowboys, Broken In: A Novel in Stories and The Trail Back Out, and my musings on cultures.
This page gives an idea of what’s here. Enjoy your visit. I welcome all comments! —Jadi
5 Favorite Blasts from the Past
- It Was a Bitterly Cold -22°
- My Sister and Maurice Sendak
- Despair Is An Exotic Ingredient
- The Year the World Came to Party#
- Hiroshima at 8:15 a.m.
My Imaginary Friends
- 1: Strangers on a Train
- 2: Gabe’s Necklace
- 3: JJ
- 4: Jeremy and his Tattoos
- 5: Fred Podolski, the Guy on the Crackers and Cookies Run
- 6: Rocky
- 7: An Insect
- 8: A Kid in a Frog Suit
- 9: The Tidal Wave
- 10: A Golden Retriever
- 11: Elbow’s Song Real Life (Angel)
- 12: A Man with a Snake
Nature
- The Song of Hippos
- Hippos & Dentists
- Frog Paradise – Part One, Two
- Borneo’s Wild Orangutans
- Remind Me Again: What Are We Doing Here?
- Warning: Waran!!
- It Was a Bitterly Cold -22°
- The Waterfalls of Laos: North
- 2,000,000 Wrinkle-lipped Bats
- Our Vacation of the Rocks
- Baum, Bats and Monkeys
- The Outback
- Steamy Rotorua!
- Wine and Sculpture
- Garden Snakes
- The Seeds of Summer
- Snake Plants
- The Animal Kingdom: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 , 22, 23 , 24 , 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, Grande Finale 1 , Grande Finale 2
- A Brood, A Clowder, A Cluster, A Cornucopia, A Paddling
Africa
Australia
Borneo
Botswana
- A Tin Toy Helicopter
- The Black Botswana Battery Acid Blister Beetle Part One
- The Black Botswana Battery Acid Blister Beetle Part Two
- The Bush Trek
- The Endangered African Wild Dog
- I’m back from southern Africa
Burma
- When Places Vanish
- The Music of the Heavenly Spheres
- Chugging Slowly Upriver in Northwest Burma: Part I, Part 2, Part 3
- The World’s Largest Pile of Bricks
- A Burmese Spirit Guide
- The Sand Paintings of Burma
Canada
Canary Islands
China
- Adventures in China’s New Territories 1: Ten Thousand Buddhas
- Adventures in China’s New Territories 2: Dancing Dragons
- Adventures in China’s New Territories 3: The 100-Pound Fish, Deep Fried and Served with Sweet & Sour Sauce
- Adventures in China’s New Territories 4: The Gods of Medicine
- The Pavilion
- The Terracotta and People’s Armies
- Xi’an’s Boulevard
- Tastes of Xi’an
- The Great Wall of Pain: Part One
- The Great Wall of Pain: Part Two
Costa Rica
Croatia
Denmark
Egypt
England
Estonia
France
- Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Chartres
- The Fork is Mightier Than the Sword. A Post in Which I Eat Paris
- J’aime la Vie
- Our Silver Wedding Anniversary, or The Rose-Colored Windows That Weren’t
Germany
- Truth in Advertising, or Be Careful What You Promise your Patrons
- Remember: Keep cool
- Summertime Tables
- Hurdy-Gurdy
- Pour Wine and Oil in my Grave
- The Year the World Came to Party
- Christmas Markets
- The View from my Window
- Saved By A Blogger Award
- The United Buddy Bears & The United Buddy Bears – An Unexpected Update
- The Gift of Gab
- Wine and Sculpture
- My Mother-In-Law’s Cookies
- Stolpersteine 1: Tsunami Cowboy’s Stumbling Stones
- Stolpersteine 2: A Stumbling Stone for Luisa Lepman
- Helping Refugees-Part 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7
- Speyer’s Walk of Shame
- You’ll Be Sorry!
- The Altar Boy
- The Foods of Fall
- Notes from the Lockdown
- My Schizoid Loop
- Things are Different Now
- Me and La Corona
- How I Spent my Summer Lockdown
Greece
Holland
Hong Kong
- Grandpa + his thumbs of Death
- The United Buddy Bears – An Unexpected Update
- A Boogie with the Bootlegs
- Ho Ho Ho, Hong Kong
- Hong Kong: Popo and the Frogs, Part 2
- Hong Kong: Popo and the Frogs, Part 1
India
- The Three Things You Need to Drive in India
- The Erotic Architecture of Khajuraho
- Travel Karma
- Remind Me Again: What Are We Doing Here?
- Bazaar/Bizarre
- The Reluctant Pilgrim
- Holy Cows
- A Cast of Thousands: Day One, Day Two
Indonesia
Japan
Laos
- The Salt Pits
- The Waterfalls of Laos: North
- The Waterfalls of Laos: South 1
- The Waterfalls of Laos: South 2
- Gods Aren’t For Sale
- Laos Journal
- The Wax Castle Procession: Part 1, 2
- Rocket Fest (Bun Bang Fai!) Part 1, 2, 3
- Laos White String Bracelets: The Baci Ceremony
Latvia
Malaysia
Namibia
- The Song of Hippos
- The Great Tire Blow-Out
- Lightning only Strikes ONCE, right?
- I’m back from southern Africa
New Zealand
North Korea
Portugal
South Africa
- Consider the Southern Right Whale
- South Africa Food and Drink Pairings for Valentine’s Day
- Like I Keep Saying: Food is South Africa is Died and Gone to Heaven Good
- South African Food isn’t Better than Sex But Boy It’s Close
- Because Food this Good Needs to be Admired
- Hippos & Dentists
Spain
- Andalusia Memories 1: Granada Heights
- Andalusia Memories 2: Alhambra Walls and Water
- Andalusia Memories 3: Cordoba and the Arches of Infinity
- Andalusia Memories 4: Sevilla Song and Dance
Sweden
Thailand
Tunisia
Turkey
Ukraine
USA
- The Sandcastle in the Middle of Nowhere
- The National Park System
- Stephen King kept me up all night
- His Name Was Bond
- PS: Have a Nice Day
- Bonds of Kindness
- Baum, Bats and Monkeys
- Our Vacation of the Rocks
- Meet the One-Tracks
- Amsterdam
- A Visit to the Food Bank, Part 1 & 2
- You Rang?
- New England’s Old Sturbridge Village, Part 1 & Part 2
- Woof
- Wildly Creative in Upstate NY: The Ferros of Little York
- Happy Halloween
- Garden Snakes
- The Oregon Country Fair
- Our House is on Fire!
- Flags
- Houston, We Have a Problem
- The Last Time I Hitchhiked was to Get to a Bar
Vietnam
Zimbabwe
Cultural Bits and Pieces (Other Topics Sneaking In)
- Edgar Rice Burroughs and Dad’s Childhood Books
- My full life began ten years ago
- Dylanphilia
- Hard Times in Sugar Town!
- Led Zeppelin and the Funeral
- Brideshead Revisited Revisited
- Return to Sender
- 2020 is Almost Over!
- # 99 # 99 # 99 # 99 # 99 #
- What a Year!
- The Death of Robin Williams
- Going Home
- In Search of Inspiration
- Death by Yawning
- In Your Shoes
- The Year the World Came to Party
- It Was a Bitterly Cold -22°
- My Mother-In-Law’s Cookies
- The Honeymooners
- You Can Have Your Cake & Eat It, Too
- The Gift of Gab
- Drowning in Love (1) & (2)
- Baum, Bats and Monkeys
- The Music of the Heavenly Spheres
- The Outback
- My Sister and Maurice Sendak
- Despair Is An Exotic Ingredient
- Death On A Wet Road Between Towns Without Names
- Meet the One-Tracks
- 8:15 A.M.
- Travel Karma
- Amsterdam
- A Visit to the Food Bank, Part 1 & 2
- The United Buddy Bears
- You Rang?
- Breath
- Remembering How to Feel
- Helping Refugees: Part 1
- Someone Burned My Book
- Our House is on Fire!
- Flags
- Introducing Pia Newman
- The Vagina Monologues
- Soccer
- Ornaments
- It’s a Wrap
- Tsunami Cowboys is Longlisted!
Thank you for checking out my recent blog post “Back to Hillsboro.” I appreciate you liking it and following me blog. I see you are a Duck with quite a bit of international travel. I’m envious. I’m also impressed with the organization of your blog. Very inviting. The recent post on Hong Kong was very well done with text and photos. Regards, GR
Welcome, and thanks for the praise! My husband’s a computer whiz but I wanted this blog to be ‘mine’. The design and posts are all from me. Uwe takes great photos but wasn’t along for my recent visit to Hong Kong, so the next set of posts are my pics for a change. A new post will be appearing tonight. Cheers, Jadi
Jadi, voice from the past. I don’t expect you to remember me, but I worked with you during your time in corporate America, better known as Big D. I connected to your life now through LZK. Love your posts and so envy your life experiences. We need more souls who recognize we all live in one world. I look forward to catching up with your travels. Best wishes.
Judy Patton
Hi Judy, I will be responding at your email but want to say it is great to get this message. Thanks so much for contacting me and I’ll talk to you soon! —Jadi