This is the eighth part of our Cuban Adventures that I wrote down and am submitting to a sailing magazine to see if they will publish it. Fingers crossed! The…
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This is the seventh part of our Cuban Adventures that I wrote down and am submitting to a sailing magazine to see if they will publish it. Fingers crossed! Arriving…
This is the sixth part of our Cuban Adventures that I wrote down and am submitting to a sailing magazine to see if they will publish it. Fingers crossed! The…
This is the fifth part of our Cuban Adventures that I wrote down and am submitting to a sailing magazine to see if they will publish it. Fingers crossed! We…
This is the third part of our Cuban Adventures that I wrote down and am submitting to a sailing magazine to see if they will publish it. Fingers crossed! Once…
To pick up from the last blog, we are on a subway heading north to Seoul with our luggage in tow. We chose to spend our last night in South…
Yesterday I wrote how we took the subway up to Seoul from my friend’s place on the Air Force base south of the metro area. Well it turns out is…
Now that we were back at my friends house south of Seoul it was time to to go up and check out this fascinating and humongous city…..but the question is…
On our way back from a side trip to Gyeongju in South Korea, we took a couple trains and buses to the Baekje Historic Areas. It is located in the…
The last of three World Heritage Sites we saw near Gyeongju, a town in the southeast part of South Korea was the Bulguksa Temple & Seokguram Grotto. Seokguram Grotto and…
Last blog I wrote how we had traveled by train to Gyeongju in the southeast part of South Korea. As soon as we got there we took a bus up…
As you read in the last post, Lily and I head out for a South Korean adventure after spending a couple days with my college roommate and his family. To…
The Oaxaca Valley was settled by the Zapotec around 900-1000 BC and over the centuries developed a hierarchical society governed by elites. While the valley was relatively isolated, the Zapotec…
Yugal is an pre-Columbian town near the current city of Oaxaca, Mexico. Yagul began as a settlement around 500 BC, but the city really began to prosper after the decline…
Monte Albán is a large pre-Columbian near Oaxaca, Mexico. Monte Albán is situated atop an artificially leveled ridge and has an elevation of about 6,400 ft above sea level and…
The Zapotec and Mixtec peoples settled in the Oaxaca valley thousands of years before the Spanish arrived. I will talk more about them in the next blog and video when…
Tlacotalpan is a town in the Mexican state of Veracruz that was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1998 due to its architecture and colonial-era layout. The town…
Campeche was founded in 1540 by Spanish conquistadores atop the existing Maya city of Can Pech on the Gulf of Mexico. Originally, the Spaniards lived inside the walled city, while…
Sian Kaʼan Biosphere Reserve in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo that became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987. The name “Sian Ka’an” means “gate of heaven”. The reserve…
The Chicxulub crater is an impact crater that hit just north of, and encompasses part of, the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. The center is located just barely offshore near Chicxulub,…
Palenque was a Maya city state in southern Mexico that perished in the 7th century. The Palenque ruins date from ca. 226 BC to ca. 799 AD. Palenque was a…
Calakmul is a Maya archaeological site in Mexico 22 miles from the Guatemalan border. Calakmul was one of the largest and most powerful ancient cities ever uncovered in the Maya…
Uxmal is an ancient Maya city in present-day Mexico, 62 km south of Mérida. It is considered one of the most important archaeological sites of Maya culture. It is located…
Chichen Itza is a large Mayan city ruins found in Yucatán State, Mexico. Chichen Itza rose to regional prominence around 600 AD, however, it wasn’t until around 900AD that the…
[Mom – September 22, 2019 – Today was moving day for us as we moved from Nazareth to Jerusalem. Our apartment in Nazareth where we stayed 4 days was really…
[Mom – September 21, 2019 – Another day in Israel led to some very interesting experiences for Shane, Janice and me. We started our day at Bet She’arim National Park,…
My mom and I are continuing our story of the three week I spent show her and my dad Israel and Jordan. Her part of the blog is from her…
As my mom and I continue to write about the three week trip my parents went on with me in Israel and Jordan, you will find today I made a…
We continue to tell you about out three weeks in Israel and Jordan and as always I am going to let my mom start with here Facebook posts during the…
[Mom – September 13, 2019 – We spent the day at Petra, one of the New Seven Wonders of the World. The pictures do not even begin to show how…