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I was rewarded in cleaning out my unused gmail account to find several unexpected messages from my father, Wally, who past away last year.  Since my gmail account received messages that were replied to directly from my blog, I hadn’t received these, but I thought readers would enjoy his comments on some of my posts.…

One of my secret pleasures of traveling to remote locales is receiving much more affordable massages. Sure, I manage to splurge a few times a year when I’m stateside, but indulge much more frequently when the cost of numerous massages adds up to a single massage back home. Plus, I’m nearly always headed out sometime…

One of the magical parts of globetrotting is time travel, not to the distant future, but you can travel back in time with the help of a long haul flight going against the earth’s spin. Being the global citizen that I am, I live my life in numerous time zones.  Every time I pick up…

Currently ranked the best airline in the world, for the second year in a row, all I can wonder is why. I am not saying it is the worst of the worst, I’ve flown on old soviet planes and questionable budget flights of all kinds, but I guess my expectation for the best would be…

So I am off again, currently in Nairobi, though finally posting this note that wrote at the tale end on a seven hour lay over in Doha, Qatar, after a 14 hour flight, with one more leg to arrive in Nairobi at dawn. Just in time for what I am certain will be a busy…

We all have those dreams that sink into our psyche and never let go.  My dream of owning a summer cottage was hatched as a Rotary exchange student in Finland during high school, where most families have a small summer cottage to retreat in the long summer nights.  Most on are lakes (Finn’s boost 187,000…

I have many fond and memorable experiences of Easter in Africa. My first was in the village of Dorfor Adidome, where I lived for two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer. I had attended church regularly in Saltpond with my dear host mother, Sister Irene, but I had been reluctant to pick favorites among churches…