The Peripatetic Engineer

My wife and I were having dinner in the 5th Arrondisment when we heard about the shooting on the Champs. We started getting texts from our f...

Translation: Tossed, but not sunk. It is the motto of Paris. You can see it on the City's coat of arms. This graffiti is courtesy of ...

Today the patrol I saw in Paris' busiest train station were paratroopers wearing the distinctive red beret. If I remember their shoulder...

I have notice that in the last week or so that security in the RER stations has been stepped up. I commute through the largest station in Pa...

Information is finally starting to come out about the night the Boston Police Department had the shootout with the Tsarnaev brothers. If you...

Ramadan will start on July 8 this year. This date, along with 9/11, should trigger an automatic increase in the level of security alert for ...

Remember this.......

Did you remember what today is?

Ramadan began at sundown July 19. Be alert.

A friend of mine's son is in his second year at West Point. He sent his dad an email describing what happened when the cadet corps heard...

In an ironic planetary confluence between the Islamic and Gregorian Calendars, the feast celebrating the end of Ramadan, Eid al Fitr, occurs...

I will soon be on my way back to the Land of the Morning Calm again. Hmmmm , lets see, 56 hours of travel (round trip) for less than 16 hour...

I do a fair amount of travelling as part of my job. I've been in and out of foreign airports (including Lagos) and my name (not ME) was ...

Sometimes the news takes on a different spin when reported by other countries. For example, the Saudi press put a special spin on the meetin...

Remember the idiot who stole a Cessna and flew south with the intent on committing "suicide by sidewinder"? Remember the F-15s who...

The evening news recently had a short piece about Americans living and traveling overseas. It seems that since the election, they are no lon...

I just got back from two weeks in NH and Boston with my wife and oldest grandson, J. More on that great vacation in later posts but I wanted...

PE has learned that the recent terrorism alert in Dubai resulted from nothing more than a conversation between two drunk Arabs. It made for ...