TLDR? My personal favorite parts of 2020: 1.) Won a battle against Taiwan’s education system and was consequently accepted to a university there! . 2.) Began doing an English-Mandarin exchange… [Continue Reading]
The Life of Playa del Carmen
“We had sand floors, sand roads, and no electricity. But Playa back then was a real jungle! I’d see those birds with the big beaks, what were they? Oh yeah,… [Continue Reading]
Turkey’s Decision to Revert the Hagia Sophia into a Mosque a Significant, Scary Move
Turkey’s recent decision to convert the UNESCO Heritage Site Hagia Sophia museum into a mosque is a huge deal. But from what I’m reading from commenters in travel groups,… [Continue Reading]
Life Amid Corona in Mexico
We’re in Mexico, so we’ve got to call it Corona virus, right? *** (Paragraphs are still not working on my website, so sorry for the annoying little stars to separate… [Continue Reading]
The Eastern Stigma of Being Handicapped
As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” “Neither this… [Continue Reading]
The Subtle Power of Finding Someone From Your Tribe (Poland Edition)
This past September my family and I met up and traveled through some new areas (new to us) of beautiful Poland, one of the best countries in the world (an… [Continue Reading]
Where We’ve Been This Year… So Far
In the last month, from September 4th to October 4th, we’d been to 12 places (cities or towns.) 12! In one month.~ Sometimes you don’t realize how much you’re doing… [Continue Reading]
“But Don’t You Miss Home?”
(Just found this on my phone- guess I wrote it half a year ago.) In this world you will be as aliens and strangers. “You’re always traveling?… [Continue Reading]
Religiousness in Jerusalem
Only a week or so, maybe less, into our first stay in Jerusalem, I had a strange encounter with what it meant to keep the Sabbath here. It was Saturday… [Continue Reading]
The Prettiest Micronation: Vevchani in N. Macedonia
Vevchani is a cute, aging village in a fold of forested mountains with springs, glaciers, and hiking trails in profusion. Most of the travel blogs I read on… [Continue Reading]