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This would no longer be jmcptimps, which stood for as per here. As for what that was, that's still here whereas why it was (and Travels is), that's simple. I ran out of space for travelogues in PHANTACEA on the Web didn't I. I also haven't got around to moving my travels site to a sub-directory of www.phantacea.com, which I may do if I run out of space on this server.

Have to say that, after I mount the latest graphics for this installment (a small sample of which can be found on this very welcoming page as well), I'll be a whole lot closer to doing just that.

As to where the previous update went, that'd be here. For the completists amongst you, a list of lynx to all the Welcoming Pages thus far presented is here.

So why I am using the past tense so much? Well, since timps stands for Travels in my Pants and since someone asked why I was mounting a porn site, I decided that it'd be less controversial if I just called it my Travels Site.

'Nuff said on that score.

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It's been over six months since I updated this site. If you're counting, that's two seasons and another mosaic novel on the shelves.

"The War of the Apocalyptics", as it's called, took its time arriving. A week before the Winter Solstice (Mithramas in the phantacea Mythos) almost doesn't count as the Fall of 2009 but that's its date and that's where it should be, too. On your shelf!

I do have an entirely new and, for a change, entirely recent entry in terms of travelogues. I'm calling it In Quest of Crumblies in part because I'm not feeling very imaginative right now (Star Wars Day - May the Fourth be with you) but primarily because that's how it started out.

Going in quest of crumblies, as in ancient ruins, is one of my main motivations for travelling. I've caught and shot great piles of the still impressive stones in Greece, Turkey, Peru, Egypt, India, and on a decent number of trips that have taken me throughout Mesoamerica (Central America).

(In truth, though, sorry to say, I've never spent much more than airport time in El Salvador, I've done bags and boots more than touch down in every country in the mainland of that last.

Could that make El Salvador a destination for next year's winter holiday, especially if I can wangle a way back to Copan in Honduras? It could. Then again Australia remains unchecked in terms of the list of places I really wanted to see while growing up.)

While I have many other reasons for travelling (sunshine and swimming or snorkeling in calm, warm water most notably), being from Vancouver I'm also mindful of rainy weather. That's one reason I prefer cities to the countryside in terms of places to go.

Quality public transportation is another as I rarely rent cars anymore when I travel outside of British Columbia (though I did this trip -- hence, as per here, its major horror story).

Museums and art galleries therefore become next-in-line factors when I'm making my mind up as to where to go next.

Too bad so many suchlike don't allow you take photos but, hey, that's what postcards and picture books are for I suppose.

Down in the graphics table are notes on most of images found on this page. Quite intentionally, some of them provide lynx to other webpages on this website.

Feel free to click merrily away. I've been doing online travelogues since 1996 so there's plenty to read and look at in terms of on-the-spot shots.

Unfortunately, aforementioned spatial restrictions limit the number of photos I can mount on any of my websites. Might it be long past time for flickr or some such? Might indeed.

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So, where am I going next -- either physically or web-wise? For me bodily it's back to Europe, where I've been a number of times before. I'll only partially be repeating myself, though, as I'm giving myself nearly a week in Vienna (Wien), Austria.

(That was where I spotted the Floris painting entitled "The Last Judgement". It contains an image strongly suggestive of a transformed Count Molech, from "The Moloch Manoeuvres", which I really must get around to print publishing one of these years.)

Previously, I only spent a day and a couple of nights there and that was way back in 1996. This time I'm going to give myself plenty of time to check out many more sights and sounds, of the operatic variety, in and around the metropolis.

While I'm in the general area, I'll also spend a few days in Frankfurt, Munich, Salzburg and Budapest before flying to London for a full week of, I hope, day trips outside of it for a change.

I won't be in quest of crumblies this trip but I hear there are neat, not-quite-crumbling, and apparently often still-occupied, "fairytale" castles around Munich and Vienna in particular.

Even though they're mostly called fairy chimneys there, I've seen the real thing in Cappadocia; must be time to see some bricks and mortar copycat structures.

Speaking of which (and thus rather cleverly providing myself a segue into here), while I've never been to Munich, a number of my 20th Century characters have.

One of them, Cerebrus David Ryne, the leader of the Damnation Brigade in "The War of the Apocalyptics", the latest mosaic novel featuring the PHANTACEA Mythos, had an, um, ultimately empowering experience there, as per here.

The easiest way to learn boots and bags more about that experience is to order your very own copy or War-Pox today. As I've said many times before, the more sales there are the merrier, and more travelled, I become. JMcP

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