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January 1, 2013
There are actually 5 “Stans”. The ones listed in the title above, plus Tajikistan. They are located in Central Asia, south of Russia and west of […]
January 1, 2012
Fran‘s Namesake City and The Almost-Absolute Monarchy The Marshall Islands We just had to go to the Republic of the Marshall Islands. We hadn‘t been there, […]
January 1, 2012
Privileged Prisoners in “Alcatraz East”, How Fran Was Almost Arrested, and Other True Stories At the Pyongyang, North Korea, airport immigration counter, the unsmiling guard states: […]
January 1, 2007
We were quite excited to sign up for a two-week tour of Ethiopia. The land of the Queen of Sheba, Emperor Haile Selassie, and the Black […]
January 1, 2004
Greetings (or as son Kevin says in Kiwi-speak, “Kia Ora”), We’re back from Down Under and it was (in retrospect) an excellent trip. We started with […]
January 1, 1990
We had been to the usual tourist destinations in China –the Great Wall, Shanghai, Xian, Guanjo (Canton)–and decided to skip them in order to fly to […]
January 1, 1979
New Guinea: The Anthropologist and Tribal Justice When Fran told her Uncle Art in 1979 that we were going to New Guinea, he couldn’t believe it. […]
January 1, 1971
Haiti (1971): Baby Doc and the Empty Maternity Hospital Fran and I had our first two kids, Kevin and Kimara, now ages two and three, and […]