Dreamtime

Kakadu National Park is home to some amazing Aboriginal rock art





And some incredible landscapes.



It wasn't very fun to visit though, among other reasons because every morning there were hundreds maybe even thousands of local Australians waiting to greet me outside my tent, hungry for my blood.



This is a typical spider in the Australian outback, it's as big as my hand.



I get the feeling that this part of Australia has an serious insect problem, this is a typical termite mound.

day in the life... Timor-Leste

Sunrise



Swim, read, nap, repeat.



Sunset

Borobudur 4 free

2 more meals in Kuching

This is called Sarawak Laksa, it is the state dish of Sarawak, and it's really good!



The was the bean curd I had at Mr. Bean, also really good!

Street food in Manila

I eat here everyday, in fact as soon as I finish this blog post I'm going there. They sell fried bananas, plantains, and sweet potatoes.



I almost didn't have this because I wasn't sure what kind of meat was in it. I can't believe I almost missed out on it, it was awesome. A guy let me have a taste before I ordered some, he told me without any prompting "This is the number one street food in the Philippines". After that how could I not try it.



A shaved ice and sweet stuff dessert. I've had something similar at the night market in Richmond.



Breakfast, down the street from my hotel. It's a good street for street food.

Dominica, a garden of eatin'

10 days on the Gringo Trail - Panama to Guatemala

The surprising Panama City skyline



It's very hard not to visit the Panama Canal, I tried my best but I ended up here anyway.



A Night in Managua - From Panama City to El Salvador I traveled with an amazing group of Christian missionaries who are on a round the world mission trip. A sketch artist drew us all as we had dinner in a Managua taco shack.



Hey Ortega's back! Now that the CIA has it's hands full in the Middle East, Latin American countries are able to elect Leftist leaders in free and fair democratic elections with minimal interference from the United States. The poor of the world rise up indeed!



Street tamales in San Salvador, 5 tamales for $1. Awesome!



The Basilica of Esquipulas in Guatemala. Pilgrims come here from miles around to see the famous Black Jesus - El Cristo Negro!



There is plenty of street food in Esquipulas to feed the throngs of pilgrims. I had these really good tamales for breakfast.



The Mayan ruins of Copan in Honduras



Copan is most famous for it carvings, especially this Hieroglyphic Stairway



The Temple of the Inscriptions



A Scarlet Macaw poses for photos atop the ruins, high above the jungle.



Antigua Guatemala, a charming little grid at the foot of a few very imposing volcanoes



More delicious tamales on the street in Antigua



Declarations of gratitude posted around the tomb of a holy man at the Iglesia de San Francisco. Very similar to the walls of the Stone Gate in Zagreb

Bridge on the river Drina

The Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge in Višegrad, designed and built in the 16th century by Sinan, the greatest architect of the Ottoman Empire.

Orthodox Easter in Moldova

Ever wonder about the real traditions behind holidays perverted by our capitalist consumer culture? A real Easter basket holds specially baked bread and other items to be blessed on Easter Sunday, not plastic eggs and chocolate bunnies.



The cloth covering the basket had been in the owners family for over two hundred years!






Everyone lines up in front of the church before dawn, the contents of their Easter baskets spread out before them.



A procession exits the church.






And the priest blesses the food with holy water



The easter feast.