I can confidently say that I never thought in a million years that I would travel to Saudi Arabia. In fact, after watching the documentary “The Dissident” I told my good friend, Kate, that I would “never” visit her in Saudi. This is one more example of why we should not use the word “never.” It makes a liar out of most of us, and it’s why I won’t say that I will “never marry…
I have a number of travel posts to do–and I am behind. But after the devastating earthquakes of February 6th it felt inappropriate and insensitive to post about fun travel times. I can’t say that today it is “right” to do so, but life does go on and I know no better way to honor those who were lost in the disaster than to live my life fully, while I have it. We just don’t…
My last international travel, pre COVID, was to Ukraine in November of 2019. In hindsight I am beyond thankful I made that trip because we had no idea what the world had in store for Ukraine. I spent a week in Kiev including a two-day tour that took me north to Chernobyl which was the primary aim of the trip. Mid November brings, just as it did then, Fall Break (a week off from work/school)…