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Indiana – Where the Bison Roam

With respect to Brewster Higley who wrote the lyrics to “Home on the Range”, buffalo don’t and haven’t ever roamed in North America. But, bison have for thousands of years (buffalo are the mammals in Asia and Africa), and…

USA

Traveling Back in Time – Colonial Williamsburg

Taking the kids to Colonial Williamsburg was a dream come true for my husband. Despite his travels all over the world, his most requested destination over the last twenty years has been Colonial Williamsburg, and somehow we haven’t made…

Asia

In Getting Lost, I Was Found in Japan

My first overseas experience  – studying abroad in Omiya, Japan – was a life changing experience.  Although my family had traveled extensively in the U.S. and Canada before that trip, I’d never traveled alone and never been in a…

Asia

Traveling Overseas with Junior Journeymen

My husband and I traveled and lived all over the world before having kids, so we’re raising junior journeymen.  It’s in our souls, and has kept our marriage interesting, challenging and wanting more. So, we want to pass that…

Europe

Do as I say, not as I do – broke my wrist in Iceland

I’m writing this one-handed, not the easiest task. So,please forgive any typos or misspellings. You see, I broke my wrist..on vacation…hiking around a volcanic crater…in Iceland.   I had just completed a bucket list item of riding an Icelandic horse, the…

Asia

Using Basketball Skills in a Chinese Hospital

I never thought I would use basketball skills in a Chinese hospital, but here’s how that happened. We were in Fuzhou, China, a small-by-Chinese-standards city of about 7 million people, on the Tawain Strait – the sliver of ocean…

Asia

My Vietnamese Massage – A Not So Happy Ending

I was in the southernmost part of Vietnam; the Ca Mau peninsula, a remote area surrounded by the South China Sea and Gulf of Thailand. The tropical landscape was rich with tamarind and mango trees and mangroves, rice paddies…