Nancy Clark Reynolds

Sometimes we are lucky enough to meet people that are so profoundly accomplished we never get to the bottom of their stories. And Nancy Clark Reynolds was so naturally modest that getting her to tell her stories often involved cajoling …

Whirling Dervishes

Position: 37°52’09″N 32°30’58″E Based on my recent survey (p2) 100% of kids growing up in 1960s America were called ‘whirling dervishes’ by their exhausted parents. Given the excellence of international studies in America’s grades K-3 we of course assumed a …

Photos: Georgia

Position: 41°55’33″N 45°29’08″E Cat pee. That’s what Simcoe hops taste like, cat pee. Their powerful, unmistakable flavour is typically added at the end of fermentation to give an IPA an added ‘oomph’. Sipping the first true craft beers we’d had …

Midnight in Georgia

Position: 41°41’17″N 44°48’15″E There is an abandoned railway line that runs alongside the road between Tbilisi and Telavi. The gantries that carried the electric power are still there. Some are broken, their big glass resistors dangling low over the middle …

Georgia Bound

Position: 41°31’12″N 41°32’52″E On a whim we decided to ditch Trabzon’s unseasonably cold, wet weather and head to Georgia. Where the weather was even colder. Given our planning skills we felt more than prepared after a couple of Google clicks. …