Nice photos! I'd love to visit the Algarve coast sometime, and do the hike you mentioned along the coast. Seems like I traveled around everywhere BUT there last year. Interesting countryside, castles,

Thank you @markjason. Well I am an illustrator by trade, so I've had lots of practice and sketch fairly quickly. The pen and ink and pencil sketches don't take a lot of time. but I find the watercolors

@carlgnash Thanks! Yeah it seems like things going wrong offers unforeseen opportunities. I met the coolest people when we were marooned in Santiago. And whenever you have to change travel plans, you are

Interesting post! I've been from Rome to Naples but didn't know about Norba. It looks to have definite sketching possibilities. Great photos too!

Wow! Thank you so much for the badges @steemitboard.

Thank you @deeanndmathews. I'm glad you like them! It does help to have such inspiring subject matter.

Thank you @c-squared for sharing and upvoting the post! I do appreciate it.

Thank you so much @steemitboards. And thank you for the upvote as well! Appreciated.

@marblely Thank you so much. This trip happened ten years ago. I hope to visit Italy again in the next year or two. I was collecting everything on this trip - photos, drawings, audio sounds, ticket stubs.

@theonlyway Yes you can't go wrong visiting Italy. I hope to get back there in a year or so. I'll look into the places you visited. Thanks for your comment!

@marblely I would love to visit Hanoi, and Halong Bay and Sapa sometime too. You can see my trip to Saigon at this blog post. There is a link to the Cambodia part of the trip in the text as well:

Well I am an illustrator by trade, so I've drawn all my life. And I am used to drawing things out quickly and lightly in pencil before I start using an ink pen. I get the main elements in place, and then

Thank you @marblely. The sketches don't take too long to do. I'd say on average an hour for each. I like to suggest detail without going too far into it. But the overall structures and perspectives need

Thank you @litguru!

I live in Seattle, USA. But my wife is from Japan. We visited her daughter in Tokyo and her sisters in Yokohama and in Shizuoka (her hometown). It certainly makes it easy to travel for me. Our next big

I'm glad you like the post and drawings @marcybetancourt. And I appreciate the vote and resteem too!

Thank you @iamsaray. As a graphic artist, I just didn't understand much of Japanese culture - it seemed so stylized and removed from what I knew in the US. But now with my Japanese wife and tour guide

Thanks for your warm comments @road2horizon. I thought of adding a map of the routes we took, but it was already so long with the 22 drawings that I left it off. Each day brought new and wonderful sites.

Thank you so much @curie! I appreciate it.

Thank you @livinguktaiwan! There were so many alluring places and scenes, I could have drawn nonstop! It is always great to actually sketch in places. And the people who see me sketching are usually quite