Many moons ago (1985-86), I attended graduate school at the American College of Fashion in London (now defunct) to study (what else??) fashion. I already had my BS in Business Administration and Management from Grand Canyon College (GCU now), but wasn’t sure what I wanted to do, so I decided…
The Smoky Mountains have a special allure. Perhaps it is the southern Appalachian culture or the ever present morning fog (“smoke”), but with over 11 million visitors per year who do not have to pay a dime to enter, no wonder it is the most visited National Park in America….
Home to the Miss USA/Teen USA Pageants for the next 3 years (at the https://www.grandsierraresort.com/), Reno, Nevada is the Biggest Small Town in the World (according to their own proclamation), and a fun place to hang out. When I used to have a “real job,” I called on a customer…
My experience in India was a love-hate relationship: while I’m glad I went and saw amazing sites in person, the extreme poverty (and corresponding beggars), traffic congestion (and corresponding pollution), and garbage piled everywhere (and corresponding stench) was an assault on my senses. I felt the cloud of spiritual warfare…
Madagascar is located off the the southern coast of Africa and is the 4th largest island in the world (around 229,000 square miles or a little smaller than the size of Texas). The very name conjures up images of exotic creatures and endless lush landscape. I had wanted to go…
Located at the entrance to Manila Bay, Corregidor Island has had a long and storied history of Spanish, Dutch and American occupation, but is most known for the role it played in liberating the Philippines from Japanese invasion during WWII. From a historical standpoint, it was one of the sites…
It is a long (and when I say long, I mean LONG!), round-about journey to get to the US Territory of Guam, which is in the North Pacific Ocean, about 5800 miles off the cost of San Francisco. My particular flight went through Seoul, Korea, where I had a 24…
Where can you walk down ancient streets that still show the ruts of wagon wheels and the signs of everyday life before it became a tomb for 2000 people? It is the largest outdoor museum in the world, and located about 5 miles from the source of its destruction, Mount…
Before I saw it on a list of Most Amazing Ancient Ruins to See Before You Die, I had never heard of Tikal. So, in my quest to visit exotic places that show up on “lists,” it was off to Guatemala! I signed up for full day tour that included…
It’s a story that has fascinated throughout the centuries, and drawn the readers of Genesis 6-9 into the drama and spectacle of Noah and his family, the ark and the flood. So, it’s one of the coolest things ever that a group of visionaries put together a team of engineers,…