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Although you can't always take vacation time off from work, sometimes you can take a weekend drive to all the beautiful destinations all...

I read an article in the Guardian in 2018 that the term Poverty Medicine was coined by a US physician named Raymond Downing in 2001 on...

Everyone can trace their beginnings to their individual birthdays. That is where their story begins. Not everyone can trace their family...

Is it just me or is life just exploding back every which way after the pandemic? Or maybe it's the rain-soaked earth of California after...

I had a Blade Runner moment this evening. Los Angeles has been raining and raining and raining for weeks now and coincidentally I have...

Walking in Beauty: Closing Prayer from the Navajo Blessing Way Ceremony In beauty I walk With beauty before me I walk With beauty behind...

When we set out from Busan heading for Suncheon Bay Garden on day 6 of our South Korean road trip, the van alerted us that one of the...

In our many family road trips through Europe and Asia, we've always relied on Google Maps for navigation. It works great most of the...

A peninsula is defined as a land mass that is surrounded by water on three or most of its sides. An island is defined as a land mass...

Since 1994, I have been involved with a group of Vietnamese American doctors who regularly go into remote villages in Vietnam where...

Kohala coast with a view of Maui in the distance Los Angeles is going through another Omicron surge, this time it's the BA.5 variant. ...

Rainbow over Morro Bay Our family tries to make it a tradition to explore Alta and Baja California during the winter holidays. It is not...

We set off from Ballyseed castle in the morning for the Ring of Kerry drive. The counterclockwise drive was recommended so you don't get...

Our family had planned to spend 7 days in Ireland but the delta variant surge in Europe, and the pandemic disruptions in the airline...

White sand beaches, black sand beaches, basalt columns, gorges, waterfalls, lava fields, craggy mountains, rocky trolls, sea cliffs, sea...

The area around this northern Lake Myvatn is just packed with all types of geothermal phenomenons. You can easily spend a week in the...

When we woke up and stepped out of our hotel room near Hofn the fog had nearly cleared. We came down to an Icelandic country breakfast...

On the third morning in Iceland, we checked out of our guest house and headed into Vik to pick up pastries and sandwiches for our...

The second day of our Iceland tour started out spectacularly with brunch at the Seabaron restaurant near the harbor. Fortified with the...

As the plane started its descent heading for Keflavik airport, I saw an anvil-shaped cumulus cloud rising out of the southern peninsula...