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90% of Koln was destroyed by Allied bombing in WW2. The Old Koln neighborhood on the Rhein River was completely re-built after the war in the traditional historic style. Most of Koln is very modern architecturally.

On a photo safari in Kenya we stayed at the Mara Sarova Lodge in the Maasi Mara wildlife refuge. It was slightly unsettling to hear lions roaring at night near our canvas tent rooms. Vervet monkeys were a bigger problem. If you left your tent door open, a vervet would sneak in and steal anything it could grab quickly.

The famous Arc de Triomphe in the center of Paris is a magnet for tourists. I have never had so many people crowding around me when I sketched. A group of Chinese young people were very friendly, but in no hurry to leave me to my work.

Our trip to Alaska and a cruise south through the inside passage to Vancouver was wonderful. The massive timber architecture of the Haida people along the coast , with distinctive totems, was a highlight.

On our cruise in the Alaska Inside Passage we stopped at the town of Sitka. The 19th century Russian style Orthodox Church of St. Michael the Archangel was primarily built by Finnish carpenters. It is the earliest Orthodox cathedral in the New World.

Chicago is one of my favorite cities, and the Chicago River is the heart of the loop area. The architecture of Chicago is world-class.

Aachen is a very interesting historic walled city. Charlemagne’s palace complex is one of the most unusual combinations of architectural styles that I have ever sketched. It is not beautiful, but charmingly eclectic.

I sketched this charming church in Santiago Atitlan, a town between two volcanoes, on beautiful Lake Atitlan. The people in the region are indigenous Mayans. As an obvious Gringo I felt rather conspicuous while sketching, as I seemed to be of great interest to the children.

I was able to sketch the magnificent Pantheon, sitting at a cafe table with a glass of fine Italian white wine. Jill and our daughter Thea took an afternoon nap in the Minerva Hotel while I sketched. The Minerva is the building to the immediate left of the Pantheon.

The Forum is a very picturesque set of ruins. I sat on an ancient stone fragment while sketching this one point perspective, imagining what a triumphal procession must have looked like traveling down these stone roadways 2,000+ years ago.