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Monks with Mad Skillz - Labrang Monastery, Xiahe China
Story written 29 June 2008
Dave gets a lesson in a violent video game from a very unlikely source, young Buddhist monks.
Monks, Labrang Monastery - Xiahe, China
Monks taking off their boots before lunch.
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Monks, Labrang Monastery - Xiahe, China
Monks getting ready to file in for their lunch of hot, yak butter tea.
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Berber Woman and Child - Atlas Mtns, Morocco July, 1999
We happened across a woman and her baby while we were crossing the Atlas Mountains in Morocco. As we stopped for a quick break, they wandered up. I asked to take a photo...she obliged.
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Summit of Mount Sinai, Egypt
I had the good fortune to tag along on a training flight while living in Sharm al Sheikh, Egypt in 1994. I'd summited Mt. Sinai a few months earlier, but it's a whole different view from above.
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Take Your Son to Work Day
Wandering the back streets of Muscat, Oman, we happened upon this butcher teaching his son the trade. A bit different than teaching your boy the finer points of crafting a PowerPoint presentation!
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Fall Colors, Sagamihara, Japan
The fall season was glorious in Japan. In Kyoto, we went on an evening of leaf viewing at the temples there. The leaves were illuminated and looked even more impressive than in the day...
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Mikoshi at Enoshima, Japan
Three girls precariously balanced on the mikoshi as it is bounced up and down by the men carrying it.
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Enoshima Koto Drummer
A couple of train stops from our old house in Japan was Enoshima Island, a popular tourist destination for people traveling from Tokyo. We happened upon a festival honoring the god of the sea, and stayed for some miso soup and sake afterward. It was quite cold, but you wouldn't know it from the participants, many of whom came out of the surf in small loincloths. After the mikoshi (float) parade was done, koto drummers entertained the assembled crowd. Kind of looks like it keeps you in pretty good shape.
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Great Wall at Simitai, China
14 May 2007, my buddy Steve and I spent the day on the Great Wall of China outside Beijing. We were traveling with Peregrine Adventures on the Silk Road from Beijing to Kashgar. The day was gorgeous, and the difference in air quality from Beijing was like night and day.
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David Fugazzotto has been a member since 8 June 2008 and goes by sandandtsunamis.
Currently in Texas.
I am a distant descendant of one of Lewis and Clark's men, so my love of travel is probably genetic. My goal of yearly international travel has been helped considerably by my work, which has allowed me to live in such places as Egypt, Somalia, Haiti, Saudi Arabia, and most recently, Japan. I never travel without a camera, and consider it my second most important traveling companion, after my wife, Melody.
You can also find David at www.sandandtsunamis.com.
