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January 1, 2019
Best Travel Moments of 2018 2018 was another fantastic year of travel. I made about 10 trips in all – some long, some short. I feel […]
November 6, 2018
Why I’m going to Tunisia When I tell people I’m going to Tunisia, many respond by either asking where it is or asking why I’m going […]
August 17, 2018
Hiking in the Canadian Rockies Reminded me of what’s Important Why you should put your phone down and do something awesome A couple months ago I bought […]
August 12, 2018
Beyond the Carpathians: Travels in Ukraine’s Transcarpathia Region Journey from the Carpathians to Mukachevo and Uzhgorod In Yasinya I got an 11:55 bus bound all the […]
April 8, 2018
My first photo exhibition is now up in Anchorage, AK. Most of my readers won’t be able to make it so I’m putting part of the […]
March 17, 2018
Why Myanmar is the best place to travel in Southeast Asia I recently went back to Myanmar for the second time. Now, even more so than […]
November 22, 2017
Kathmandu in Photos Most people associate Nepal with mountains. Rightly so. The Himalaya stretch over 2400 km through 5 countries and include 10 of 14 of the […]
November 20, 2017
Why I’m Going to Myanmar (Again) In the fall of 2013, I went to Myanmar. Only a few days before that, I had found out that […]
October 19, 2017
11 Reasons to Love Lesvos Greece As I traveled around the Greek Island of Lesvos, one story kept resurfacing. That of the foreign tourist who’s been coming to this […]
September 6, 2017
What You Need to Know about Traveling in Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan is a small, mountainous country in Central Asia. Its landlocked territory is home to the semi-nomadic Kyrgyz […]
August 11, 2017
Pennsylvania Face-off: Pittsburgh vs Philadelphia As noted in the recent Craft Beer in Pennsylvania: East vs West article, the state of Pennsylvania has an east-west rivalry […]
August 9, 2017
Nepal via Instagram Travel in Nepal is an awakening of the senses. You can’t smell the incense or freshly-ground spices wafting out of shops or battle […]
July 10, 2017
Why I’m going to Kyrgyzstan The small Central Asian Republic of Kyrgyzstan has a lot of good things going for it. Unfortunately, it’s relatively remote and obscure. They can’t change […]
June 26, 2017
Nepal: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly — A Realistic Look at Traveling in Nepal This post continues in the series I started with […]
June 21, 2017
Getting off the beaten track in Venice Making Sense of Venice with all the Tourists Some people think Venice has a tourism problem– as in, too many tourists. […]
June 7, 2017
On a cold night in January 1968, 31 North Korean spy commandos cut through the most heavily fortified border in the world. Undetected by South Korean […]
May 16, 2017
Why I’m Going to Lesvos Greece Over the past couple years, the Greek Island of Lesvos has been a central story of the Syrian refugee crisis. […]
March 27, 2017
While many of us think only of crystal clear waters and white sand beaches when we hear Jamaica, there is so much more to this island […]
March 24, 2017
Andong Hahoe Folk Village Andong Hahoe Folk Village is one of the best places in Korea to experience a traditional village. Although it has become popular […]
March 16, 2017
Memories of my Mongolia Gobi Trip About 15 kilometers outside of Ulaanbaatar, at a seemingly insignificant spot, we turned off the road and followed a set […]
February 9, 2017
Traveling Tokyo on a Tight Budget Some think traveling Tokyo on a tight budget is impossible. While traveling in a country’s largest city is almost always […]
January 18, 2017
Why I’m Going to Moldova We’ve been making our way east from Budapest, where we made a nice base for digital nomading (and relaxing in thermal […]
January 8, 2017
A Guide to Budapest’s Thermal Baths Budapest is known for its thermal baths. Humans have been exploiting these mineral-rich waters for health, relaxation, and enjoyment for […]