Welcome to Bhutan!

The Paro airport is the only port of entry by air.

Checking in at the Zhiwaling Hotel on the outskirts of Paro.



View from room 36 at the Zhiwaling Hotel.

Two days at The Mala Mala Game Reserve

View from room 3 at the Mala Mala Game Reserve camp. These antelopes are female Nyalas.

View from room 1723, Radisson Hotel Bangkok

Last night of this expedition!

Still snowing, in Southern Ireland

View from room 8,Rockville B&B at Castleblaney; still snowing.


Tomorrow we head for the Premier Inn Dublin Airport (has "talking" elevators ) before our return flight.

O'Brien Castle on the Cliffs of Moher

View of the Cliffs from the South window.

On Safari in Southern Africa!

Dateline 9/20/08. View from room 456 in the Southern Sun Hotel, Johannesburg Airport, South Africa. We overnighted here before boarding a vintage DC-3 aircraft for flight into the Mala Mala Game Reserve. The water cooling towers visible in the distance are probably connected with coal-powered electicity generating (not nuclear, yet) facilities.

Room 33 at the Fishtail Lodge in Pokhara, Nepal

The view from room 33. Annapurna 1 and Machhapuchhre ("Fishtail" in Nepalese) mountains in the Himalayan range

At 26,545 feet, Annapurna 1, on the left, is the tenth highest peak in the world.

Room 101, Srinagar Hotel, Tansen, Nepal

We stayed two nights in this room, where the American Ambassaor to Nepal stayed. Decorative bars on the window!

Room with a view

Introducing our "room with a view" series.

This is the view from room 405, Summer Place, just north of Marineland, Florida. We spent a few days here recently, with Buddy Tignor, who helped us set up our blog site.

More entries will follow, as time permits, and deadlines allow. Tom has until February 20 to get a research grant application submitted to the United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation.