Dianna and I flew yesterday from Istanbul to Antalya, a medium-sized city on the south coast of Turkey. I'm going to keep this one super short, so will just say that Istanbul was amazing, one of my favorite cities anywhere. The south coast is looking...

Click the subject line above to view a slide show of my favorite photos from the past four months of traveling around Greece and Egypt (in somewhat random order).

Colorful graffiti around Athens, and the Parthenon atop the Acropolis at sunset. (The Acropolis is the hill situated in the center of Athens, on which the specific building known as the Parthenon sits. As you can see, it's under restoration and rather...

Yesterday afternoon Dianna and I walked (okay, took the metro and then walked) over to the Acropolis. We strolled around there a bit, before catching the sunset from Filopapou Hill looking out at both the Acropolis and the city of Athens stretching in...

After the game that I watched in Cairo betwen Egypt and Algeria, the two teams had to play another game together to decide ultimately who would go to the playoffs. The game took place in Sudan a few days ago. Algeria won 1-0, and tragically (despite no...