Taiwan also known as the Republic of China But never as Chinese Taipei if you have ever lived there, but more on that later. For some reason the last day or so has had me thinking about Taiwan.  Taiwan is where Jeff and I took  the plunge to move overseas.  We sold our stuff, packed 1

The Ottomans, now there was a group of guys that could spend some serious cash. When our family was visiting Turkey, we went through the archives of a famous Turkish Museum known as the Topkapi Palace,  when I came across this picture of some Ottoman Military Band Members. I believe i

Unfortunately, I have the attention span of a Cocker Spaniel, or in our house it is a crazy Lab/Singaporean street dog mix. The upside, however, is the ability to spend time culling cool as beans stuff from that Google Machine.  Therefore today marks the first in a ongoing series of o

Glory to God in the Highest Or something like that. First, a bit of background, I was raised in a church. A liberal one to be sure, one that allowed us to think our own mind.  One where Sunday School consisted of traditional bible studies countered with World Religion.  One where our

Take four jet lagged people, put them on a boat, cruise past sites that are thousands of years old and what do you get?  A great first day in Istanbul. We landed in Istanbul at 8 am after an overnight flight from Singapore.  Before we left we talked about our options of what to do and