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Hello all, In the interest of getting an interesting posting up while not having to stare at a screen much more than I already have in the past days, this week's travel posting is mostly pictures. These are pictures which I took underwater in the M… more »

Hello all, It's just after August options expiration and I'm quite tired, so I'm going to keep this week's travel posting short and sweet. Today's subject is the barrenly spectacular Fish River Canyon in southern Namibia. These pictures are from F… more »

Oudtshoorn, the ostrich capital of the world is in the Klein Karoo area of the Western Cape of South Africa, between the famous Garden Route and the Swartberg mountains. Thanks to vuvuzela.com for this map of the Western Cape...you will find Oudtshoor… more »

For something a little closer to home than the prior travel photos here on Rossputin.com, I take you to Joshua Tree National Park, roughly east of Palm Springs and south of Twenty-Nine Palms (home to a large US Marine base) in the California desert. T… more »

Bhutan (the subject of one prior and several future travel postings) has fantastic festivals called "tsechus". The biggest is in April in the second-biggest city, Paro. The second-biggest tsechu is in October in the capital of Thimpu. I've actually been… more »

The 14th century ruins at Hampi were once the seat of India's Vijayanagara empire, primarily in what is now the state of Karnataka, better known in the modern world for the high-tech city of Bangalore. Hampi is now a World Heritage site and still has str… more »

Fifth in a series of Sunday travel articles and photos: The only things most Americans ever hear about in Bangladesh are devastating floods or sinking ferries. It's quite unknown to the average tourist, and indeed tourists are quite unknown to the ave… more »

Fourth in a series of Sunday travel photos and stories.... For something a little closer to home than Namibia, my wife and I took a trip last year to Belize, a Central American country on the Caribbean Sea, just east of Guatemala and south of the east… more »

Third in the series of Sunday travel photos.... Namibia (just northwest of South Africa) is an incredible country, with a huge range of topography and ecosystems, from the arid south with areas that look like the Grand Canyon, to the stunning red sand… more »

Second in the series of Sunday travel photos.... Near the end of our honeymoon in March, 2004, Kristen and I went to the Torres del Paine National Park in Patagonia, near the southern tip of Chile. It's a spectacular place, well worth a visit if you'r… more »