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While in California, during one of my daily phone conversations with my Spanish girlfriend who works for UNHCR in Bukavu, Congo, I asked for her help on Spanish terminology as I look to improve my understanding of the language that … Continue reading →

Following my return from Liberia and the wonderful family get-together in Simi Valley, on Monday the 7th of June, I was road bound again.  It was good to be back on the Harley after two weeks.  Southern California, however, was … Continue reading →

The day after taking in the Reagan Library, on the 24th of May, I took a flight from Burbank to Washington-Reagan via Dallas.  Two days later I joined 13 graduate students and the Director of the George Mason University Peace … Continue reading →

U.S. 93 North into Nevada was thankfully smooth, with long stretches of straight road through expanses of desert less colorful and without the dramatic rock formations that typify Arizona.  Southern Nevada is more like New Mexico, but more brown than … Continue reading →

If I had thought I had seen the worst of the windy weather along Interstate 10 in Louisiana and Texas, I was mistaken.  After a pleasant ride from Roswell and two days in Santa Fe, I headed down (losing about … Continue reading →