Iceland Westfjords June 202139 photos
Don Pogreba is a current writer and retired teacher of English, Social Studies and Debate, and a loyal, if often sad, fan of the San Diego Padres and Portland Timbers. When he is not traveling, he is working on his classroom web site or dreaming about another adventure.
Travel in the twilight period as (hopefully!) the world begins to turn the corner from the Covid-19 pandemic has been an interesting experience, one I would describe as one with far more benefits than drawbacks. My three weeks in Iceland and Spain have seen much smaller crowds, an almost total absence of massive tour buses, and a blessed...
Another in a set of photos I assumed I had uploaded but seem not to have remembered. My dominant memories of Zagreb are definitely the experience of watching the Croatian team defeat Russia with a few thousand new friends in a city square and this idyllic park festival going on while I visited. Zagreb was, in many ways, a hidden gem at...
One of my favorite spots in the world has to be the area around Livingston, MT.
An album I neglected to upload from my trip to Split, Croatia, in June 2018.
A collection of photos from all over the Big Island of Hawaiʻi between July 2020 and May 2021.
have only a handful of photographs of my father. One taken shortly after I was born shows a man, already old, wearing what looks inexplicably like a North Korean army hat cocked at a ridiculous angle on his head, wearing the weary eyes of someone who doesn’t want to be photographed and holding a massive fish in one hand. It’s winter in...
Rats Are Us–That discovery was just the tip of the iceberg. We now know that rats don’t live merely in the present, but are capable of reliving memories of past experiences and mentally planning ahead the navigation route they will later follow. They reciprocally trade different kinds of goods with each other – and understand not...