My first trip to Berlin was when I was 17 years old. It was 1999 and the ten year anniversary of the Berlin Wall coming down. Unlike many kids my age, I knew a lot about the tumultuous history of the city and was riveted. Germany was a place I had wanted to visit for …
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In September of 2015 my friend Sofie and I planned a trip to Bulgaria. She had asked me months earlier if I would be interested in going, her father had a past colleague from there and she wanted to Sofie to visit to see what Bulgaria was all about. Honestly, Bulgaria was never on my …
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In Marrakech we don’t have much of a winter. The temperatures might drop but they never reach freezing. We have snow but it’s high up in the mountains. It took me a long time to discover the little bits and pieces of Christmas that arrive in mid-December. Instead of feeling depressed in December we went …
The melting pot of America is home to people from every country on Earth. Where I grew up, Italian, English, and Finnish immigrants made up the majority of the population. I can remember a billboard that was up every year before Christmas. It read; Merry ChristmasBuon Natale (Italian)Hyvää Joulua (Finnish) Yes, the Upper Peninsula was …