• Palace Painting

    One of the several work crews detailing a lakeside building in the massive Summer Palace in Beijing.

  • The Lion

    On guard at the water’s edge of Beijing’s Summer Palace.

  • Palace - Seville, Spain

    One Last Thing

    Plans coalesced on the beach in Lagos. Ready for a larger leap between cultures, I intended to cross the Strait of Gibraltar to spend about one week in Morocco. My guidebook had a seven day itinerary that sounded, like most other week-long guidebook itineraries of places I’ve never visited, to be a reasonable balance of perspective and breadth.