TRAVEL THE WORLD (WHILE STAYING AT HOME) BLOG

Translating recipes to vegan is always a risk, but the food from Sierra Leone that I made with Sheryll’s family in October came out well....

Vonnett protested against making the molouk, a crispy, savory, fried dough, because she is avoiding fried food. We would have missed out...

It took some negotiating to convince Vonnett and Kevin to reschedule Oktoberfest so we could attend the festival at St. George Serbian...

In 2019, I travelled so much for work that Southwest Airlines gave me a Companion Pass. I chose Kaitlin to fly free with me. Kaitlin...

There was a mistake on Kaitlin’s student visa when she arrived in England. She couldn’t leave the United Kingdom until resolved or she...

Tourist visas have only been available for Saudi Arabia for the last few years, but Allan stepped across the border from Jordan once when...

heidiannette47 is my favorite person to follow on Instagram. I smile every day when I see her perspective on flowers or a sunset here in...

“Wars end, but neighbors remain.” What a great philosophy, and probably the one that made it possible for the oldest continuous democracy...

Kristen and Kaitlin performed with Shasten in the Redlands YMCA circus for many years. Shasten’s mom Andrea was one of my favorite people...

No matter how much I like breadfruit, I’m not going to repeat the work I did for the last two blogs, so it’s time to eat what the...

Raquel was roasting breadfruit on the barbeque and Andrea, Kaitlin, and Matt were swimming in the pool when Sam showed up with Malta, a...

I searched ten Asian markets for breadfruit to go with stewed saltfish, spicy plantains, and coconut dumplings, the national dish of...

My colleague Aimable, who teaches in the School of Pharmacy at Loma Linda University, remembers beautiful Rwanda with fondness. Besides...

The first time Barb went to Russia, it was mid-winter in the late 1990s. The river in St. Petersburg was frozen over and the soles of her...

My mother’s rules about weekly TV limits and bedtimes went out the door during the Summer Olympics in Montreal when we stayed up to watch...

Every teen girl should have someone who looks like her in literature. That’s why I wrote a Christian romance as my first novel attempt...

Kristen, Kaitlin, and their cousin Jesse were spread like monkeys in a tree while their slightly older cousin Alex stood below with Mom...

Kristen was in Poland the summer of 2019 to take classes at Nicolas Copernicus University and attend the Torun Astrophysics,...

Cathy broke a toe, so when we went to Historic Filipinotown (HiFi) with her daughter Leah last week, we drove from place to place instead...

I love my family. That doesn’t mean that it is easy to meet their diverse food preferences and needs. When we are going out, deciding...