Marriage in a Foreign Land
Marriage in a foreign country can be really difficult because all of a sudden you have two governments involved…
Category: Travel Dispatches
Napoli, Pozzuoli, and the Roman Empire
It was on August the 4th that my future fiance and I traveled from our home in Lombardia to…
Beautiful Northern Italy – the Other Land of 1,000 Lakes.
Far from the protest and riot – ridden streets of Minneapolis, Minnesota another land famous for its lakes beckoned…
Buona Pasqua – Spending Another Holiday Like a Character in a Jane Austen Book
Italy is where I have spent yet another major holiday, passing as I did Christmas and New Years in…
3 Months in Italy and How Being a Digital Nomad Sometimes Requires Settling Down
I don’t think anyone needs anymore details about COVID-19. I want to take this blog post to start talking…
Life Under Quarantine
Life under quarantine is an interesting new challenge for a world-traveler/digital nomad. It takes a moment to set in,…
Unfurl Your Sails and Go Undaunted into the Great Adventure
At this point my trip through Morocco would have been about halfway completed if not for a chance encounter…
In Ghana, I Practiced a Bit of “Theological Tourism”
Ghana is a primarily christian nation. There are also muslims here, but I never saw any advertisements for mosque…
But Who Will Build the Roads?
PICTURED: The streets above Labad, a neighborhood which literally means “the bad” and was given to it by colonial…
Afehyia Pa – Culture Shock and a Merry Ghanaian Christmas
Some of the previous dispatches from Africa have included no small amount of economic, social, or political commentary, but…
By Our Very Nature, Dignity and the Human Being are Indivisible
I always say about life that opportunities come when things are happening, and things happen when you make ripples…
Go to Where the Boot Tracks End… Then Keep Going
There’s nothing quite so engaging as a good mystery. I was still in Swakopmund as I had become accustomed…
Swakopmund is a Beach Town Paradise that’s Not Quite what it Seems
Swakopmund is a little slice of Germany in The middle of the desert. Afrikaners and Germans mingle together among…
Macro and Micro – the Special Beauty of the Namib Desert
I would love to take a mature and nuanced perspective about my first week in Namibia, but to be…
Adventuring in the Qian Shan Mountains
An older, distant China is, as I mentioned earlier, quite hard to find here in the Northeast. But this…