TRAVEL THE WORLD (WHILE STAYING AT HOME) BLOG

The most expensive box of chocolate I have given Allan was the one-pound box of See’s Nuts and Chews that I sent him in Mongolia for...

A food scavenger hunt might not have the luxury of Monaco’s casinos, but I was having fun. My first stop was Acme Bread Company in...

Yelp reviewers, wishing and hoping for a Moldovan restaurant, have led me to three quite different restaurants in California, the first...

TSA agents know everything! I wasn’t sure I could take the log of vegetarian chicken on the flight to NorCal, so I pulled it out of the...

I was vomiting and I hadn’t drunk the water. Worse yet, Allan and I had been dating less than a month and I had wanted to make a good...

Fresh from the garden for our New Year’s Day lunch, Sheryll's Mauritian salad was the subject of a discussion on whether Mauritian means...

New Years Day in Mauritania with Sheryll’s family required a slight modification above and beyond being in the SoCal desert instead of...

Sandi had recently returned from a year of teaching first grade in the Marshall Islands when I roomed with her during my second to last...

I’ve gone to some crazy lengths to make food from various countries, but Malta challenges me more than most. For example, Cheese Cave in...

Peanut butter in vegetable soup wouldn’t usually be my first choice. In fact, I hesitated, but Sheryll’s family is vegan and vegan...

My mom is such a good sport! I gave her a list of seventeen ingredients to find before I visited last week, including the difficult to...

If Kaitlin disappeared in Malaysia, who would I call? This was worse than Croatia. In Croatia, I received the three text messages from...

Since Ron went back to Malawi, I haven’t gotten as much exercise. Ron used to split his time between teaching at Loma Linda University...

Three times last week I made mofo anana, a kind of vegetable fritters from Madagascar. First I made them for my cooking group where the...

Macedonia has a mystique. Maybe it comes from the story of the mysterious Macedonian who appears in Paul’s dream in the biblical book of...

Our boast of the Inland Empire in California is that we are only an hour from the beach, an hour from the mountains, an hour from the...

Allan loves orchestral music. One of our favorite things is when Linda brings her record player, Heidi brings poetry, and I make...

College road trip! Robert, Raquel, and I drove from the University of Michigan to Purdue University earlier this week. Knowing that one...

The last Seventh-day Adventists evicted from Libya after Muammar Gaddafi took power were Judy and Jerald Whitehouse, longtime family...

I was driving through Fargo, North Dakota at 3 p.m. on May 20, 2019, on my way to tour a critical access hospital and interview their...