Category: Travel

Belize

November 26, 2022 - Travel

Part I – Actun-Tunichil-Muknal Cave (These images are not mine, cameras are not permitted in the site.) “The name Actun Tunichil Muknal translates as “Cave of the Crystal Sepulchre,” and the locals know it as “Xibalba” after the Mayan underworld. The Crystal Cave was traditionally believed to be an entrance to hell, a deep fissure […]

Italy

June 11, 2022 - Travel

Rome – Part I In the inaugural games in the Colosseum, the historian Cassius Dio claims over nine thousand animals were killed for sport. That is such an oddly specific number and it sticks in my brain like a thumbtack. The structure itself was likely financed with the sacking of Jerusalem around 67 AD. Josephus tells […]