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The Skull of Hammershus on Bornholm

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Den Forhadte Borg. The Hated Castle. Hammershus is Scandinavia’s largest medieval fortress, situated on the northern tip of the Danish island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea. And if that isn’t ominous enough, they have an eight foot skull embedded in the floor. The skull of Hammershus.

Skull of Hammershus

Hammershus dates back to early in the 13th Century. Initially a residence of the Archbishop of Lund (then part of Denmark), the fortress for the next 500 years served as a stronghold of the island’s various rulers. Repeated wars and rotating residents led to the castle being rebuilt and expanded on several occasions. Partially demolished late in the 18th Century, Hammershus now lays in ruins but remains an important historical site.

I visited only three months after the opening of a new visitor center that provides a panoramic view of the fortress. And that’s where the skull comes in. A human skull was found on the site during an archaeological excavation in the 1940s. Using new 3D scanners, a 2.5-meter replica of that skull was created. Ten tons of robot milled Styrofoam molds formed the base of the sculpture, with acrylic gypsum laminated to its surface. Final surface details were sculpted by hand and the surface was hand-painted to resemble the original as close as possible.

The effect is spectacular. Turning the corner into the visitor center we were all suddenly taken aback by this huge skull lying in front of us. But don’t get too cozy here; head for the viewing platform to the walls and towers of the Hammershus ruins. Plan for extra time and hike up the trail and around the fortress up close. Gaze over the cliffs to the brilliant waters of the Baltic Sea.

After Hammershus we headed for the town of Allinge and a lunch of traditional smoked herring and beer, then to Osterlars for the biggest round church in Denmark. I’ll have more on these other sites on Bornholm later. For now, I’m still thinking about the Skull of Hammershus.

David J. Kent is an avid science traveler and the author of Lincoln: The Man Who Saved America, in Barnes and Noble stores now. His previous books include Tesla: The Wizard of Electricity (2013) and Edison: The Inventor of the Modern World (2016) and two e-books: Nikola Tesla: Renewable Energy Ahead of Its Time and Abraham Lincoln and Nikola Tesla: Connected by Fate.

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Rice and Coconuts Drive the Philippines

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Water Buffalo, Boracay, PhilippinesThe Philippines consists of 7,641 islands, although about 500 of them disappear at high tide. While the nation has growing industrial and service industries, about 30% of the labor force remains in agriculture, with rice as its biggest commodity.

I’ve always had a special affinity for rice. One of my first assignments as an environmental consultant was to tour the southern US to locate collaborators for a study for a new rice pesticide. I roamed the fields of Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Texas. Years later I found myself in southeast Asia noting the prevalence of rice (and noodles) in the diet.

During my recent trip to the Philippines I had several occasions to get a better understanding how important rice is the to the local diet and way of life. Here’s just one example. I visited the Motag Living Museum on the northwestern tip of Panay Island, a short speedboat ride from the tourist island of Boracay. The museum consists of a series of traditional huts and workspaces. Women show how traditional crafts – baskets, toys, clothes, tools – are made, while both men and women highlight the methods of ploughing, harrowing, planting, threshing, pounding, and then cooking, rice.

Rice is a basic source of starch, much like pasta and potatoes in Europe and the United States, but I was surprised to learn that they also make the equivalent of popcorn (pop-rice?) and hard grain rice snacks. Rice fibers can also be used as toilet paper. I passed on the invitation to roll up my pants and plant new rice fronds in the muddy rice field, but jumped at the chance to ride a water buffalo (called a carabao in the Philippines) around the same mud plot. I also used a bamboo pole as a bucket to lift water from a well, fill another bamboo pole as a carrier, and tote the water to an area for washing and showering.

Rice paddies, Boracay, PhilippinesMy science education also didn’t stop with rice. Motag also showed us how to hack coconuts out of their outer husk using a sharp stick, then use another sharp stick to break up the coconut meat into flakes. We also got to taste coconut water and coconut milk. Coconut also played a role (no pun intended) as “paper” at the local toilet hole. Mixing coconut flakes with water makes a handy shampoo, while a coconut and leaves blend works great as a natural soap. These seemed to work better than the leaves sometimes used at the hole and sometimes to sandpaper the bark off trees (for which it worked way too well). Later I would enjoy the traditional coconut pie and 80-proof coconut wine/liquor.

I finished up my visit with a cup of hot lemongrass and ginger tea, followed by leaf-wrapped sticky rice.

The short local minibus ride back to the boat squeezed passed the row of moto-tricycles waiting for their charges as the local high school emptied out its students. Along the way back to the pier we saw acres and acres of rice fields squeezed between the shoreline and mountains. Much of the Philippines was severely damaged by Super Typhoon Haiyan (called Yolanda in the Philippines) in 2013. A 7.1 level earthquake hit the area a month prior to the typhoon. Luckily, the Philippines gets all its energy from geothermal, wind, solar, and hydroelectric, so they were able to recover fairly well.

Suddenly I feel an urge to eat some pop-rice. Perhaps this is an unexplored market in the west.

David J. Kent is an avid science traveler and the author of Lincoln: The Man Who Saved America, in Barnes and Noble stores now. His previous books include Tesla: The Wizard of Electricity and Edison: The Inventor of the Modern World and two e-books: Nikola Tesla: Renewable Energy Ahead of Its Time and Abraham Lincoln and Nikola Tesla: Connected by Fate.

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How to Make Coffee in Costa Rica

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Coffee Plantation Costa RicaDuring a recent visit to Costa Rica I learned how to make coffee. From scratch, like from the beans. I toured the Doka Estate Coffee Plantation in Alajuela Province, northwest of San Jose, and even got to rake some of the dried coffee beans. My big discovery is that making coffee is a lot more complicated than you might think, and in Costa Rica, done using natural renewable energy.

Coffee as a drink originated in Ethiopia but is now produced in over 70 countries of the world. Outside of sugar cane, coffee is their biggest product (that is, not counting ecotourism, which is now the country’s primary economic driver). Costa Ricans, who call themselves Ticos, always have a tin cup handy for coffee because they are light, don’t break, and reusable.

Coffee plants need to grow for four years before the first harvest. The berries are green at first, then turn red as they ripen. Since berries on any given plant can ripen at different times, it takes four months of repeated visits for workers to hand pick the red berries from each individual plant. Workers, many of whom are migrants from other countries (e.g., neighboring Nicaragua), get about $2 per 28-pound basket of berries, which makes only 7 pounds of beans once husked. It takes multiple steps to get to the “golden beans” that are ground to make coffee.

The first step is to separate the berries by density, which is done in the wet mill, essentially a water bath. Low quality berries float while high quality ones sink to the bottom. The next step is to separate by size (small, medium, large) through various rotating grids. By this time the beans are extracted from the berries and fermented for 36 hours in big vats. Then they are off to the spread out in the sun to dry for five days. That’s where I got a chance to learn a new trade – raking the beans to turn them over in the sun.

Even more fascinating was how they make decaffeinated coffee. Since Ticos don’t drink a lot of decaffeinated coffee (or soda), they ship beans off to a company in Germany who happily extracts the caffeine in hot water for free. Why free? Because they can then use the caffeine to put in sodas and other caffeinated products. The decaffeinated beans are then shipped no charge back to Costa Rica for the limited use they get, mostly by tourists staying in hotels.

I also learned that the different types of coffee (French roast, Breakfast, Espresso, etc.) are created simply by varying the time beans are roasted. There is also the phenomenon where a berry, which normally contains two same-sized beans, produces one round bean and one tiny flat bean. The round one, called a peaberry, tends to absorb flavor that didn’t go to the runt bean, which makes the peaberry much sweeter. You’ll see these sold separately.

At the end of the tour I was able to try four different kinds of premium coffee, which to be honest was a bit of a waste on me given I don’t actually drink coffee. Still, the difference between the four was eminently evident to my palate. Much more to my liking was the three kinds of chocolate covered coffee beans. The sweet taste of the white, milk, and dark chocolate was deliciously balanced by the bitterness of the underlying bean.

The experience of visiting the coffee plantation is one not to be missed, whether you drink coffee or not. My thanks to the guides at Doka Estates Plantation for teaching me the science of making coffee.

David J. Kent is an avid science traveler and the author of Lincoln: The Man Who Saved America, in Barnes and Noble stores now. His previous books include Tesla: The Wizard of Electricity and Edison: The Inventor of the Modern World and two e-books: Nikola Tesla: Renewable Energy Ahead of Its Time and Abraham Lincoln and Nikola Tesla: Connected by Fate.

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Four Monkeys in Costa Rica

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There are four species of monkeys in Costa Rica. This contrasts with no monkeys in Australia, the subject of a previous post. I recently got to see all four species of Costa Rican monkeys.

They are, in no apparent order, the Central American squirrel monkey (Saimiri oerstedii), the Panamanian white-faced capuchin (Cebus imitator), the Mantled howler (Alouatta palliata), and Geoffroy’s spider monkey (Ateles geoffroyi).

The capuchins and howlers have fairly stable populations while the squirrel and spider monkeys are listed as vulnerable and endangered, respectively. Getting photos of the spider monkey turned out to be impossible even though they are the biggest of the four species. We saw (and heard!) plenty of howler monkeys, but they were generally fairly elusive and stayed up in the high trees. The capuchins, in contrast, seemed to welcome human contact, coming right up to the edge of the river we were on to feast on the fruits at the end of branches. We only saw squirrel monkeys once, a dozen or so filling a tree not far from the ground we were hiking.

The trip to Costa Rica was one of the most biodiverse travel experiences I’ve ever had. Starting in San Jose and environs, we went all the way north to the Nicaragua border (even passing slightly over the border on the Rio Frio). Then it was the hanging bridges near the Arenal Volcano and out to the west for the Pacific coast. Eventually we went down to the south for bird and crocodile watching on the Tarcoles River. Our last day was in the famous Manuel Antonio National Park. Around the country we saw an amazing number of bird species, plus agouti, coatimundi, igaunas, sloths (both two-toed and three-toed) and much, much more.

Rarely do we take packaged tours, but this one with Caravan Tours was outstanding. Many thanks to our Tour Dictator (um, Director) Cinthia and bus driver Jaime for a fantastic week taking us around Costa Rica. Pura Vida!

I’ll have plenty more about Costa Rica coming up so stay tuned!

David J. Kent is an avid science traveler and the author of Lincoln: The Man Who Saved America, in Barnes and Noble stores now. His previous books include Tesla: The Wizard of Electricity and Edison: The Inventor of the Modern World and two e-books: Nikola Tesla: Renewable Energy Ahead of Its Time and Abraham Lincoln and Nikola Tesla: Connected by Fate.

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Butterflies and Beans

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Quick stop at a butterfly garden and coffee plantation in Costa Rica.

Rainbow eucalyptus

The pretty side of the owl butterfly

Flowers everywhere

And chrysalises

Owl side

Monarch

Drying some coffee beans.

David J. Kent is an avid science traveler and the author of Lincoln: The Man Who Saved America, in Barnes and Noble stores now. His previous books include Tesla: The Wizard of Electricity and Edison: The Inventor of the Modern World and two e-books: Nikola Tesla: Renewable Energy Ahead of Its Time and Abraham Lincoln and Nikola Tesla: Connected by Fate.

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Staring Down Monitor Lizards at Coron, Philippines

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The monitor lizard was six feet long from nose to tail, maybe even longer. We were in the Philippines, and we were all staring at it.

Monitor lizard, Coron, PhilippinesA close relative of the somewhat larger and more famous Komodo Dragon, all monitor lizards belong to the genus Varanus, a word derived from the Arabic meaning “dragon” or my favorite, “lizard beast.” And what a beast he was (but in a good way).

On our recent tour through several Philippine islands we made a stop at Coron, which consists of a couple of big islands and around 50 other islets. The day was spent snorkeling both in Kayangan Lake, a mixed fresh and salt water body of water, and a tropical reef filled with fishes and corals. For lunch we took the outrigger to another part of the island for a nice beach picnic.

Perhaps that is what attracted the monitor.

After eating we noticed some rasping sounds behind us and suddenly there was this lizard, its tongue flicking out repeatedly in search for food. Virtually all monitor lizards are primarily carnivorous, although there are three arboreal (tree climbing) species in the Philippines that are fruit eaters. This one was not arboreal but strutting along the rocky gravel and sand looking for food. It may have smelled the crabs and fish and other delicacies we had just barbecued up, or maybe it was looking for other reptiles or amphibians…or even birds and small mammals. I’m suddenly reminded that humans are mammals and wondering what monitor lizards consider “small.”

This particular one graced our presence for about 20 minutes or so. At one point a stray cat – feral cats are everywhere in the Philippines – engaged in its own stare down with the monitor from a relatively safe rocky perch. We could tell the monitor was thinking about it, but then suddenly, a semi-feral dog raced into the scene and leaped onto the back of the monitor, which quickly shed its unwanted rider and sped into the crevices of the nearby rocks. The cat also jumped a mile in the air from the sudden intrusion and took off into the forest. Whether the dog was rescuing the cat or simply felt ignored by all the people gazing at the monitor is unclear, but after about 10 minutes searching fruitlessly for the lizard among the rocks, it slowly made its way back to the beach.

And so ended our monitor moment. This was the first monitor lizard seen on the trip, but not the last. A day later another was wondering near our stop off for the underground river on the Philippine island of Palawan. Then we spotted another in the mangrove forest of Brunei (where we also saw a proboscis monkey, but more on the monkeys later). Monitor lizards are oviparous, meaning they lay eggs, as few as seven and as many as three dozen at a time. We didn’t see any nests, but there is plenty more to talk about so look for future posts on monitors and other Philippine flora and fauna.

 

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David J. Kent is President of the Lincoln Group of DC and the author of Lincoln: The Fire of Genius: How Abraham Lincoln’s Commitment to Science and Technology Helped Modernize America and Lincoln: The Man Who Saved America.

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Dinner with the Captain

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Windstar Star Legend Captain's dinnerOne of the many thrills from my most recent Windstar cruise was dinner with the Captain. Given that the Captain’s table – a large oval in the center of the dining room – seemed to sit empty throughout the cruise, the event was very special indeed.

By this time Ru and I had been on the Star Legend, one of Windstar’s three powered yachts and sister to the Star Breeze we took in the summer, for most of the two week cruise through the Philippines, Malaysia, and Brunei. It had been a busy day. An “at sea” day, I spent several hours in the bow Yacht Club writing about 2400 words of my new “historical science fiction” novel, which I had started earlier on the trip since I couldn’t lug all the research materials for my non-fiction Lincoln book. I also caught up on some long behind reading, which helped me reach my reading challenge goal for the year.

At lunchtime the ship offered Asian-style poke bowls on deck. Later we attended a cocktail party for yacht club members, who are people that have taken more than one Windstar cruise. This was our third cruise, and second one in 5 months, so we enjoyed complimentary wine and gourmet canapes while chatting with the other guests and crew. As we entered, the captain held the door for us. We would see him again shortly.

Captain Remi Eriksen met us outside the dining room and escorted us to the center table. Besides Ru and I, we were joined by a quartet from Melbourne, Australia and a couple from Ontario, Canada. We had been in Melbourne a year before so much of the discussion leaned in that direction for a while, then into Canada and general travel. And of course, Captain Eriksen regaled us with stories from the ship. A native of Norway but now living in Spain, Eriksen had only been captain of the Star Legend for two and half months. Prior to our boarding in Honk Kong, the Star Legend had encountered a typhoon off the coast of Vietnam. After we got off in Singapore there was a tsunami along the coast of Indonesia, where the Star Legend was headed. He certainly earned his captain’s bars.

Normally we would have a single glass of wine with dinner each night, but the waiters repeatedly swooped in to refill our glasses before they were empty. One of the benefits of dining with the captain, I thought, as I walked gingerly from the room.

It was a delightful evening and I gained an even greater appreciation for the great work the crew and staff of the ship do to keep the 200 passengers happy. So thank you Captain Eriksen and Windstar for a wonderful trip.

After we landed in Singapore, Ru and I realized that this was our third Windstar cruise, and all three had been on different ships. Our first was on the flagship, Wind Surf, a five-mast sailing ship for which the nightly “Sail Away” is especially heartwarming as the sails are raised to the sounds of Vangelis playing on the upper deck. We also realized that the three ships had gone to three different parts of the world – Caribbean (Wind Surf), Baltic Sea in northern Europe/Russia (Star Breeze), and Hong Kong/Philippines/Malaysia/Brunei/Singapore in the South China Sea (Star Legend). Windstar has a total of six ships, the three remaining include one more sister yacht to the Star Legend/Breeze, plus a pair of slightly smaller sailing ships. We’ve informally decided to plan our travel so we can cruise on all six of the Windstar fleet, and to six different parts of the world. Hey, you have to set goals.

We haven’t booked our next Windstar cruise yet but we have a few places in mind. Until then, bon voyage!

David J. Kent is an avid science traveler and the author of Lincoln: The Man Who Saved America, in Barnes and Noble stores now. His previous books include Tesla: The Wizard of Electricity and Edison: The Inventor of the Modern World and two e-books: Nikola Tesla: Renewable Energy Ahead of Its Time and Abraham Lincoln and Nikola Tesla: Connected by Fate.

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The Year in Science Traveling – 2018

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Water Buffalo, Boracay, PhilippinesI was traveling. That’s my excuse for being a bit tardy on this wrap of the year in science traveling, 2018. And what a year of traveling it was, with 8 new countries visited, plus a lot of domestic travel. Click on the links for stories about some of the stops.

It was a bit of a slow start, with only one significant trip in the first 2-1/2 months. The end of January took me to Sanibel Island and Fort Myers, Florida to visit the Thomas Edison/Henry Ford Winter Estates, the Mote Marine Lab (in Sarasota), and explore nature on Sanibel. February and March kept me mostly local with tons of Lincoln-related events, including a weekend trip to Newport News for the annual Battle of Hampton Roads event (including touring the facility with none other than Abraham Lincoln).

In April it really got busy travel-wise, a condition that didn’t let up for the rest of the year. Early in the month I was scheduled to give a presentation in West Virginia, after which I was starting my Chasing Abraham Lincoln, Part 1 tour. At the last minute I had to scrap the whole trip and instead drive up to Massachusetts where my father had gone into the hospital. After my return, virtually every day was filled with some sort of event, plus a short trip to Fredericksburg for the annual CPRC meeting.

I finally was able to take my Chasing Abraham Lincoln, Part 1 trip in early May. This had originally been planned for March, then due to a huge snowstorm in my target area put off to April, which as mentioned above was again rescheduled at the last moment. The road trip took me down to Tennessee and Lincoln Memorial University, where I spent the day in the Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum. For the next 8 days I wound my up through Lincoln’s birthplace in Kentucky, his boyhood home in Indiana (with a day spent researching in the Allen County Public Library Lincoln Collection), then up to Michigan to see the actual chair Lincoln was sitting in when he was assassinated.

Windstar CruisesThe end of June put me on a Windstar Cruise into the Baltic Sea. Windstar specializes in small yacht cruises so we got to know the other 200 passengers well during the 11-day cruise. Starting in Copenhagen, we stopped in Bornholm, Poland, Lithuania, Estonia, Russia, Finland, the Aland Islands, and finally into Stockholm. Windstar offers such great cruises that this was the first of two we took in 2018.

Part 2 of my Chasing Abraham Lincoln tour took place in mid-July. Over 9 days I zigzagged my way around Illinois to see dozens of Lincoln statues, all 7 of the Lincoln-Douglas debate sites, and other key locations related to research for my next Lincoln book. I even got to see Lincoln and Douglas debate in person.

August took me back up to Massachusetts to visit my family. I made three trips up in 2018, and each time my father was in the hospital or rehab so I never saw him at home. On this one I also drove up to Maine to visit my brother who had become President/CEO of the Schoodic Institute, a non-profit associated with Acadia National Park. On my return I picked up my son for a week’s stay in the DC area.

Crater LakeThree days later we flew out to Oregon to begin a 10-day road trip in early September starting in Crater Lake, up the Oregon coast, through the Columbia River Gorge, into eastern Washington state, through Idaho and into Montana to spend a couple of days in Glacier National Park.

Okay, breathe. The rest of September and October was time to catch up at home and prepare for the next trips. No, we weren’t done by a long shot.

From mid-November until Christmas we didn’t stop. I drove up to Gettysburg for the annual Lincoln Forum conference. A day later I was driving to Massachusetts for the Thanksgiving holiday. Then few days after that we were again on a plane, this time flying to Hong Kong to board our second Windstar Cruise for the year. For 14 days we toured five different parts of the Philippines (Hundred Islands, Manila, Boracay, Coron, Palawan), two parts of Malaysia on the island of Borneo (Kota Kinabalu and Kuching), and the tiny country of Brunei (officially, “Nation of Brunei, The Abode of Peace”). After finishing the cruise in Singapore we spent a four days exploring the city that spawned the book and movie, Crazy Rich Asians.

I flew home from Singapore less than a week before Christmas while Ru flew on to Beijing to spend a few days with her family. When she returned on Christmas eve she was accompanied by her mother, who will spend the next three months visiting.

Clearly 2018 was a busy year. I estimate that I took between 10,000 and 15,000 photos in one year, and going through them is always a slow process. Regular readers of this page will have seen many of the trip posts I’ve done during the year and I’ll continue to write posts to catch up. How quickly that happens will depend on how much time my upcoming travel and writing allows.

So what about 2019? Trips are already booked for Costa Rica and Cuba and I am planning a Part 3 of Chasing Abraham Lincoln, proven necessary after I realized how much I missed on the previous two trips. I’ve had tentative plans to rent an apartment in Paris in the spring to do research for a forthcoming book, but so far haven’t done much to prepare for it. I’ll plan at least one family trip to New England with the likelihood it will end up being two or three trips. I’ll definitely be at the Lincoln Forum in Gettysburg. Where else I go is still rather fuzzy. Domestic options include a Southwest road trip, Chicago, Charleston, and various other Lincoln-related sites. International travel options currently on the radar include Iceland, Banff, Galapagos, and Antarctica/South America.

And somewhere in there I need to keep writing. I was able to write during sea days on both Windstar Cruises, but usually I’m so busy on travel that I can’t get much done on the road (other than writing about the current trip itself, which some day will be fodder for Bill Bryson-ish travel memoirs).

As Mark Twain wrote in Innocents Abroad:

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.”

Happy Science Traveling!

David J. Kent is an avid science traveler and the author of Lincoln: The Man Who Saved America, in Barnes and Noble stores now. His previous books include Tesla: The Wizard of Electricity and Edison: The Inventor of the Modern World and two e-books: Nikola Tesla: Renewable Energy Ahead of Its Time and Abraham Lincoln and Nikola Tesla: Connected by Fate.

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Crazy Rich Singapore

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One of 2018’s surprise hits was a movie called “Crazy Rich Asians,” based on the book by Kevin Kwan. Much of the action takes place in Singapore. Now I can see why.

Here are a few highlights of my recent trip. More to come once I sort through over 3000 photos.

More soon.

David J. Kent is an avid science traveler and the author of Lincoln: The Man Who Saved America, in Barnes and Noble stores now. His previous books include Tesla: The Wizard of Electricity and Edison: The Inventor of the Modern World and two e-books: Nikola Tesla: Renewable Energy Ahead of Its Time and Abraham Lincoln and Nikola Tesla: Connected by Fate.

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A few mosques in Malaysia and Brunei

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Brunei is a strict Muslim country and filled with mosques. I also saw mosques in Malaysia. Here’s some quick views.

More coming soon!

David J. Kent is an avid science traveler and the author of Lincoln: The Man Who Saved America, in Barnes and Noble stores now. His previous books include Tesla: The Wizard of Electricity and Edison: The Inventor of the Modern World and two e-books: Nikola Tesla: Renewable Energy Ahead of Its Time and Abraham Lincoln and Nikola Tesla: Connected by Fate.

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