Gower House

12/27/2025

Room with a view! I can get on the balcony tomorrow - little chilly when I got here. Tomorrow Commander’s Palace. Then sailing to the Caribbean December 28, 2025.

12/25/2025

Merry Christmas!

09/03/2024

08/29/2024

“That’s my Dad!” What a heartwarming image! (Reacting to his Father’s speech.)

08/27/2024

Some new fans at the house. The old porch fan had run its course so we replaced it with a new outdoor fan in all white. Looks very cool. Then we had to replace Lucretia’s fan so went with tropical stylings.

05/17/2024

A bit of the croup from probably too much going and not enough resting. So, now am resting after my pal Albert Ingles made some chicken soup (escudella)I put together this list of countries I have been to. It’s now, 70! Plus I added some odds and ends for fun but they are NOT countries on at the end.

(And actually, Turkmenistan, the hardest country I’ve ever tried to get in to, was #70, but I went back to Uzbekistan before I left Central Asia.)

Andorra 🇦🇩
Portugal 🇵🇹
Spain 🇪🇸
France 🇫🇷
Switzerland 🇨🇭
Austria 🇦🇹
Germany 🇩🇪
Italy 🇮🇹
Netherlands 🇳🇱
Denmark 🇩🇰(10)
Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
Ireland 🇮🇪
Belgium 🇧🇪
Czechia 🇨🇿
Türkiye 🇹🇷
Greece 🇬🇷
Lithuania 🇱🇹
Latvia 🇱🇻(20)
Estonia 🇪🇪
Finland 🇫🇮
Russia 🇷🇺
Sweden 🇸🇪
North Macedonia 🇲🇰
Montenegro 🇲🇪
Bosnia - Herzegovina 🇧🇦
Albania 🇦🇱
Slovenia 🇸🇮
Serbia 🇷🇸(30)
Hungary 🇭🇺
Bulgaria 🇧🇬
Kazakhstan 🇰🇿
Morocco 🇲🇦
Egypt 🇪🇬
South Africa 🇿🇦
Namibia 🇳🇦
Botswana 🇧🇼
Zimbabwe 🇿🇼
Zambia 🇿🇲(40)
Tanzania 🇹🇿
Kenya 🇰🇪
Peru 🇵🇪
Ecuador 🇪🇨
Bolivia 🇧🇴
Chile 🇨🇱
Argentina 🇦🇷
Brazil 🇧🇷
China 🇨🇳
Cambodia 🇰🇭 (50)
Thailand 🇹🇭
Laos 🇱🇦
Vietnam 🇻🇳
Japan 🇯🇵
Australia 🇦🇺
Fiji 🇫🇯
Qatar 🇶🇦
United Arab Emirates 🇦🇪
Vatican 🇻🇦
Guatemala 🇬🇹(60)
Costa Rica 🇨🇷
Mexico 🇲🇽
Canada 🇨🇦
Jamaica 🇯🇲
Lebanon 🇱🇧
Jordan 🇯🇴
Paraguay 🇵🇾
Uzbekistan 🇺🇿
Kyrgyzstan 🇰🇬
Turkmenistan 🇹🇲 70th Country!

Odds - n - Ends:
Gibralter (UK)
St. Maartin (France/Netherlands)
Anguilla (UK)
Saba (Netherlands)
USVI (USA)
Easter Island (Chile)
Galapagos (Ecuador)
East Germany (1989)
Catalunya

05/14/2024

For Jeremy French.

Watch / Listen to the full session here: http://www.kcrw.com/music/shows/morning-becomes-eclectic/iron-wine-2017-10-26Beast Epic is the sixth album from Sam ...

04/15/2024

At the Austin-Bergstrom airport today. Flying out on Lufthansa Airlines. Since I got here so early I’m killing time in United’s Club Room. Nice fixings here!

04/07/2024

Blooms around the house. Texas Buckeye, Mexican Buckeye, Crossvine, and iris.

03/22/2024

Archeologic news from Florence!

🎉 Exciting News from GSAR! 🎉

This week marks a significant milestone for us at GSAR! We're thrilled to announce that we've successfully delivered the oldest cultural component from the Gault site (dating back 20,000 – 16,000 years BP), the bulk of the Clovis component, and Archaic components from our Area 15 investigations to the Center for Archaeological Studies. 🏛️ This certified repository holds archaeological records and artifact collections in trust for the State of Texas, meeting the Federal curation standards set by 36 CFR 79. Thank you, CAS and Texas State University, for all your assistance in the historic project!
To learn more about CAS go to: https://cas.anthropology.txst.edu/

This achievement represents a monumental effort, with approximately 1.3 million artifacts (150 boxes of material), including copies of numerous theses and dissertations related to the Gault artifactual materials and data.

Getting this amount of material physically and digitally prepared for curation is a massive amount of work. None of this would have been possible without the dedication of our incredible lab manager, Jennifer Gandy, and the many colleagues, interns, and volunteers who have supported us over the years. 🙌 We also extend our heartfelt thanks to our colleagues at the Texas Archeological Research Laboratory for their enormous support, which has been instrumental in completing this enormous task.

To all our friends, supporters, and members: thank you for keeping the Gault site, its story, research, and the Gault School of Archaeological Research thriving! 💫 As we celebrate this milestone, we're committed to furthering our impact in Education, Research, and Conservation.

Visit our website to learn more about our ongoing work! ➡️ www.gaultschool.org