International Marking for Trails My husband and I love to hike. A trip is considered particularly good if it includes one walk through the countryside. Hiking is hardly limited to the United States and easily available for those who care to try sites abroad. View of Marlborough Sound on Queen Charlotte Track Walking sticks for… Read more »
It had been 45 years since I last saw Ahmet Yilmaz. We shared a year at Plainview High School in 1965-66 when he arrived as an exchange student from Turkey. Ahmet was placed through the American Field Service, originally a program for ambulance drivers in World War I that morphed into a student exchange. In… Read more »
Ataturk’s Yacht on Bosphorus Strait With 4454 miles of coastline at the crossroads of Europe and Asia, Turkey has long been a popular spot for traders and conquerors. Today, tourists are the newest invited invaders who are taking advantage of this now stable democracy. On a recent trip, we discovered it has some of the… Read more »
Mary with statue of John Lennon in Havana, Cuba park
Mary riding camel in Jordan desert
Mary Surrounded by Hmong women selling their wares in Sapa, Vietnam
Mary on glacier in southern New Zealand