Thankfully a coworker bought a current contest by National Geographic to my attention and suggested I enter with pictures from my recent tr...

I've embraced TQ has my preferred nomenclature because of how common "Tom" is - especially in my extended family. It's...

Our team in Sri Lanka in was 13 people strong. Each was obviously worthy of their own post, but there are just a few I want to publicly ment...

In my mind: this might have been an improvement "The only way that flight would have been worse is if the plane had crashed." ...

Srilankan Airlines is the greatest airline I have ever had the pleasure to experience. I was on it twice - from New Delhi to Colombo an...

The picture above and the one immediately below were thankfully taken by a fellow BTCVolunteer that had a much more high tech camera that ...

My last night in Sri Lanka was spent in Kandy. I had mentioned that I would be in Kandy in one of my last posts before my departure, and ...

We made two significant stops at Sigiriya on the way back to Negombo from Anuradhapura to end the first weekend in Sri Lanka. First we tou...

Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka Being the son and brother of Elementary School teachers has helped me understand the difference between allite...

Fellow BTCV teammate Diana (Colombian born, but 100% Miami) and I pose next to a Tuk-tuk I have since learned that these types of vehicl...

While I was in Sri Lanka both the NFL & NBA (my two favorite professional sports leagues) were in lockouts. Even if there were actual ...

My Father laughed heartily when I told him, "There's nothing like the smell of fresh cut grass when you know you don't have...

I'm very proud that I was able to "disconnect" to the extent I did for over 16 days. Even though it resulted in a missing so...

During the evening of Wednesday August 3, 2011 I wrote an inspired post in my Moleskine. It was titled "The morning I lost my innocence...

The van stopped and we were there. There was no big driveway, no large sign visible from far down the road (the usual trappings of a schoo...

The plane leaves in the early afternoon this Friday July 29. I intend to unplug shortly after I [hopefully] purchase tickets to an upcomi...

For those that don't know, I'll be going halfway across the planet in under eight weeks.  I've begun a very important step of t...

Last Sunday I typed a very bragging post about how I had a social life to be envied.  Standing upon my pulpit of blogisicsm shouting to as ...