Musings of a
world traveler

The Temple of Horus is one of my favorite temples of ancient Egypt and the best preserved in Egypt, built in the Ptolemaic Kingdom between 327 and 57 BC. Inscriptions on the temple walls include important scenes of the Sacred Drama which relate to the age-old conflict between the gods Horus and Set.

Me at Teotihuacan in 2003 with the grand pyramids of the sun and moon behind me. I have been to this magnificent place only 30 minutes outside of Mexico City several times and each time I’ve been overwhelmed by the sheer size, majesty and grandeur of this place.

This photo was taken in 1995 after I had just hiked the Inca Trail and gazed upon Machu Picchu for the first time.

The vastness of the Grand Canyon is overwhelming as it stretches 277 miles along the Colorado River in Arizona.

Cahokia was first inhabited @ AD 700 by prehistoric Indians of the Late Woodland Culture. Around AD 800 another culture emerged called Mississippian, lasting until @ AD 1400.

Markawasi, Peru is a mysterious, mystical desert plateau high in the Andes Mountains. It is an otherworldly “stone forest” landscape that I had the opportunity a few years ago to visit with my friend Dr. Robert Schoch, a prominent geologist with Boston University.

I caught the soaring, needle-like Bell Tower of St. Euphemia in Rovinj, Croatia against the rising sun three weeks ago.

The Antikythera mechanism is an ancient analogue computer (dated between 205-100 B.C.) believed to have been used to predict cosmic movements.