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Faith's Travels

"A man’s steps are from the Lord; how then can man understand his way?"

  • Home: About
  • Locations
    • Africa
      • Morocco
      • South Africa
    • Asia
      • Brunei
      • Cambodia
      • Hong Kong
      • Laos
      • Indonesia
      • Malaysia
      • The Maldives
      • The Philippines
      • Singapore
      • Sri Lanka
      • Taiwan
      • Thailand
      • Turkey
      • Vietnam
    • Europe
      • Belgium
      • Cyprus
      • England
      • France
      • Greece
      • Italy
      • Romania
      • Scotland
      • Spain
        • Canary Islands
      • Wales
    • North America
      • Canada
      • USA
    • Oceania
      • New Zealand
    • The Middle East
      • Israel
      • Jordan
  • People Stories
  • Travel with Special Needs
    • Travel With A Special Needs Sister
    • The Option of Travel for People with Special Needs
    • Traveling with a Handicap- yes you can!
    • Update on Grace
  • Travel Musings
    • Transitions to Travel Life
    • Travel Musings
    • Something More

A Year in Review

by faithstravels on January 19, 2021January 26, 2021

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

by faithstravels on July 27, 2020July 28, 2020

“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

by faithstravels on July 25, 2020July 25, 2020

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

by faithstravels on March 23, 2020March 23, 2020

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

by faithstravels on March 2, 2020March 2, 2020

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)

by faithstravels on January 14, 2020January 14, 2020

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

by faithstravels on October 11, 2019October 20, 2019

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?”

by faithstravels on August 20, 2019August 21, 2019

(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

by faithstravels on July 21, 2019July 22, 2019

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

by faithstravels on May 31, 2019May 31, 2019

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]

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This traveling trio is comprised of a mom and two daughters from the USA. Of the two daughters, there's Grace who has Down syndrome and Faith who writes this blog. Hey! In May 2015, we traded in a home and belongings for backpacks. Now we just have Bibles, empty plans, and the world before us. Let's go see what's out there. :)

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We’re on the island of Jersey now, the largest of the Channel Islands. 🎉 Even though it’s the biggest, this island is only 9 by 5 miles! Today I met the owner of some cute Jersey cows and yesterday tried the amazing Jersey ice cream with some friends we hadn’t seen in many years! 😍🍦 People from Jersey say they are *definitely* not part of England. Jersey has its own Jersey pound currency and its own language: Jersey French. Unfortunately the language is dying out. Jersey is only 14 miles from the coast of France. This island way back in the day (10th century) used to be part of the Duchy of Normandy— so all the names and roads etc here are in French. The Germans occupied the island for 5 years during the war.. and so there are still bunkers all over the place. The first picture, in fact, was taken from the top of a bunker. 😆 The cutest, most Scottish-esque town we’ve seen so far. 😍 So… after renting a car and exploring northern Scotland for two weeks, we’ve begun a Workaway (work exchange) near Saint Andrew’s, Scotland at a nuclear bunker built in 1951 for the Cold War. The WiFi speeds in the bunker are ridiculously fast 😂 There’s an area of Kalmar, Sweden called “the garden” —it’s an area you can walk through of little “cottages” where some swedes stay in the summer— all of which had the most gorgeous gardens 😍🌹 Some pretty bits of Malmö, Sweden 🇸🇪 Dancing the evening away in Malmö, Sweden~ 💃🏻 This is European camping. 😆 It’s a bit different from in the US… We’ve been camping for 3 months already— through Poland, Israel, and Sweden. And our tent made it onto the Swedish news! The news reporters said there has been a massive surge in campers here in the past two years and were interviewing people, including my mom, to find out why. (I think we all know why.) — It has been a very rainy and chilly July up here in Scandinavia. Everyone is siked to see the sun today. #malmo #sweden It’s been really rainy and cold in Sweden lately— so I Googled “sunniest spots in Sweden.” This town came up in the archipelago region — we were told that Swedes like to spend there summers there. We found a good campground and came over. Gorgeous area, but so far, it’s still raining. 😆 ☔️ Rain or shine though, we’re always in good hands! 😊🙏 #karlskrona #sweden Picture of the day 🇸🇪

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