by staff | Jul 27, 2019 | Around the World series
At the hinge of the Middle East, Jordan is a traveler’s jewel still relatively unknown by the Arab-fearing West. At best, we may recall that the king-ruled nation meets Israel and Egypt at the Gulf of Aqaba, and Lawrence of Arabia once tramped through its vast...
by staff | Jul 27, 2019 | Around the World series
There are two schools of travel. One faction journeys to lower their living standards, by eating things and sleeping in places they wouldn’t dream of at home. The other travels to raise standards, by eating things and sleeping in places they wouldn’t dream...
by staff | Jul 27, 2019 | Around the World series
None of Israel’s God-made wonders, neither the Red Sea corals nor the Judean Desert palms, neither forests of the Galilee nor salts of the Dead Sea, can let my restless heart forget the stories of holy Jerusalem. Entering Jerusalem, the bus rolls up soft green...
by staff | Jul 27, 2019 | Around the World series
Gaean. I’m hungry. An hour before iftar, the nightly breaking of the fast during Ramadan, the 9th month of the Islamic calendar, a single thought occupies the minds of most of Cairo’s 15 million people. I’m hungry. Each day of this holy month,...
by staff | Jul 27, 2019 | Around the World series
By making a circular journey, once I stepped away from home, I had already stepped toward it, and I never really stopped looking there. America was my reference point to explore three continents, 12 countries and even more cultures. Now the world is my lasting...
