
Wild Trip to Africa
Africa, home of the wild! June 11, we boarded British Airways for Africa. Two days later, we arrived at Entebbe, Uganda, airport. There were six of us: my older sister Mikka and her mother Carol, Mikka’s...
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Middle East Excursion 2010
In March of 2010 I had the great luck to journey to the Middle East and visit Jordan, while acting as a group leader for the student exchange organization Middle East Excursion, along with nineteen...
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A Taste of Marrakech
Birds are softly chirping in the courtyard garden beneath me as I sit looking up at the pink sky stretching in all directions above the rooftop garden where I‘m sitting. The...
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Hidden Bias of the Heart
Most people go on a journey hoping to find themselves. By plunging into a foreign setting and experiencing something altogether new, they aspire to uncover the best and most hidden depths of their...
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A weekend in Tzfat, Israel
I spent the weekend before Pesach in Tzfat, one of the four holy cities (the others being Jerusalem,...
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GLOBAL CITIZEN
My memories never fade. I can remember cluttered villages, a smell that is unforgettable, unpaved...
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World Challenge: Madagascar
Personally, I have always wondered if the World Challenge Expeditions people slipped us hallucinogenic drugs along with the spectacular PowerPoint presentation...
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Two Weeks in Impoverished Paradise
Twenty-six hours of travelling. I went from the familiar airport in Cincinnati to the massive international intersection that is the Detroit airport to the...
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