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Visiting Taiwan isn’t on the top of most people’s bucket lists but I found it to be interesting. It is real and and definitely not touristy. Often the word for places like this is authentic. Sometimes gritty. We visited there on a cruise boat hosting about 600 people that started in Hong Kong...
Often I like to “repost” this blog about a Memorable New Year’s Eve. Enjoy When the big bell in Kyoto rings on New Years Eve, it gongs to erase the 108 worldly desires man is born with. For me, it rang to mark a new phase in my role as a mother. […]
The small but fascinating town of Khiva in Uzbekistan stole my heart. After visiting the big sister tourist towns of Bukhara and Samarakan with their impressive architecture and markets, I fell in love with the 2,500 year old town on the Silk Road. What’s to love? While destroyed and...
If you have been following my blog you know that over the last six months I have been randomly posting about a terrific trip I took in June of 2023 to three of the Silk Road countries in Central Asia. Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan I don’t normally take so long to blog about...
“Color has the power to set a mood, tell a story and to even create an experience.” Recently I found this statement in an article in a design magazine. This made me think about the trip I made to three Central Asia countries in June 2023. It was a photo tour so we were […]
Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan One of the most fun things about photography tours is driving along a very foreign road and then being able to stop when a photo opportunity appears. This blog post highlights these experiences on a trip I took to Central Asia a year ago. Yep, we were...
Be forewarned. This blog post has nothing to do with design or art, museums or swishy restaurants. Nope. If I had an editor, she would say, “No go.” But I don’t and I can do whatever I want. And in this case I want to share an absolutely fascinating experience in KYRGYZSTAN, LAND OF […]
I love going on photo tours. This is the kind of travel experience where everyone on the trip is there to take pictures. The tour leader’s job is to get us to cool places at the right time of day. It is a lot of fun having interesting experiences camera in hand. So, what […]
by Guest Blogger, Kate Dernocoeur Our group of twelve Westerners pauses at the temple gate where the imposing Nio statues stand guard. We are new to the proper etiquette, so Tom, our guide, teaches us to bow upon entering the temple grounds. One of us rings the giant bell to announce our...
It’s always interesting to see what is on the itinerary of a photo tour. You can expect that sometimes you see surprising things. Photo tours are always different than traditional tours. I wondered when I saw “Morning at Metro Stations in Almaty, Kazakhstan” on the itinerary of my trip to...