I decided to travel to Granada, Spain based on a painting. It wasn’t just that, of course, but my wife and I have enjoyed a colorful painting we bought of the amazing Alhambra for years, and I wanted to see it for myself. The Alhambra really is amazing. Historians are unsure about when it was […]
Month: April 2024
Pickup Cowboy 5
This is an occasional story series. To start the story at the beginning, click here. Washington and Austin feel like they are far apart, but politically they operate the same way. Money talks, and the elected representatives say the things they think their constituents want to hear. The cowboy and Ann were walking down the grand […]
Realities of Travel
When I’m at home, I’m usually thinking about where I want to travel. The world is so big, and I don’t have enough time or money to see everything that I want to see. I watch videos about various places, and they are all lovely, and the food looks amazing. It’s hard to figure out […]
Córdoba, Spain is a beautiful old city with a lot of history. This is another stop on my continuing Spanish language tour, with more stops in Spain coming up. Spain has a number of beautiful cities, but I chose Córdoba because of one amazing church — the Mezquita-Catedral. It was originally built in 785 as […]
Feedback Loops
We are all influenced by feedback. If you touch a hot stove, you almost immediately feel pain and pull your hand away. That’s a feedback loop in action. One definition of a feedback loop is the part of a system in which all or part of the system’s output becomes input for future operations. The […]