Why You Should Travel to a Foreign Country

I recently came back from a 6 week trip to China. I explored Nanchang and got to see the Tengwang Pavilion as well as so many other crazy things. Before that, I had traveled to over half the States...

Albania, the House of Life

Learning from history is the right way to continue into the future. By visiting Albania you will find a wonderful and incredible history of Holocausts and the meaning of the Albanian word BESA, a...

The Essential Temples Of Angkor

I first visited the Temples of Angkor back in 2002 during my 3-month travels around Asia. I hadn’t witnessed anything quite on the scale of this sprawling ancient complex before, I became...

Shoes on the Danube River Bank - a Budapest Hungary, memorial

The Shoes on the Danube Bank is a memorial in Budapest, Hungary. Designed and created on the east bank of the Danube river by film director Can Togay, and sculpted by Gyula Pauer, to honour the Jews...

The Ultimate Guide to the Great Wall of China

The Great Wall of China is far from being just a wall that can be seen from the cosmos. It’s a state of mind. After hundreds of years when emperors from countless Chinese dynasties made gates...

Reading Recommendations from A Bag Lady

Words have always fascinated me. In my adolescents, I would often ponder the origin of words, their invention, how they were formulated. Whose jobs was it to construct the alphabet or to decide which...