Flags in the real world. A flag post.

A 1960's bubble gum card of Flags of the world - Russia.

I feel a little sad that my childhood love of flags has become so tarnished and I really wish I could get back to seeing them with a neutral eye, but there is no going back.

Being driven crazy in the Balkans

Ohrid - Macedonia. Roadside chapel.

“I thought the customs officer was going to search the car and hoped that my slippery elm bark, the natural remedy which I have been told looks like raw heroin, wouldn’t cause me to be slammed into an Albanian gaol.”