My wife, daughter and I spent a number of weeks during the summer of 2010 in Egypt and Tunisia. Only months later both countries experienced what has come to be known as the Arab Spring. The Arab Spring was a series of anti-government protests and violent rebellions that occurred in the Middle East in early 2011. At the time of […]
Her First Passport and Her Personal Known World
Tonight I am starting to think about the travel that will be a part of my spring and early summer. When I was a kid, I rarely traveled much more than a couple of hours from home by car. In fact, I only flew on a couple of occasions before I graduated from high school. […]
Favorite Museum….The Bardo–Tunis, Tunisia
The Bardo in Tunis is my favorite museum not only for its vast collection of Roman Mosaics, but because my daughter and I had a great time there together on a very hot July day in 2010. The first to arrive there in the morning, we had the place to ourselves for the first hour. […]
Finally!–A Name for my Blog
From http://www.psdgraphics.com/backgrounds/blank-world-map/ Last week I finally gave my blog a name–Ross All Over The Map. Since starting it almost two months ago I have simply called it Ross’ Blog in part because giving it a real name might obligate me to keep it up for the long term and in part because I could not think of […]
From the South Asheville Cemetery to Thurburbo Maius
Vintage Postcard depiction of Asheville, North Carolina from Beaucatcher Ridge Just east of downtown Asheville, North Carolina the land rises steeply toward Beaucatcher Ridge and on its other side, as it falls away further east, is the Kenilworth neighborhood where my wife and I lived in the late nineties. It is a lovely shaded place that, […]