With one month in Lebanon, you can cover a lot of ground.  However I can’t say that I really traveled the country thoroughly and I certainly didn’t get to all of the traditional tourist sites.  Instead I was too busy sinking into the culture of Lebanon.  Thanks to my GeoVisions cultural exchange program who placed [...]

Last month I produced a Saigon City guide podcast for one of my favorite travel websites, The Indie Travel Podcast.  I love writing, and I wasn’t really sure how I would like researching and doing a podcast, but it proved ot be a lot of fun!  So – here’s everything you want to know about [...]

Thanks to everyone that voted for the Indie Travel Podcast Lonely Planet Awards!  It payed off as they were the winners of the Podcasting category!  I started writing for Indie Travel Podcast about a year ago after Craig interviewed me on one of his podcasts – Home and Away with Sherry Ott.  Craig and Linda [...]

When I was 28 years old I was working at a big corporation in Minneapolis. Twenty-eight was a good year. It was the first time I was making money and could start to travel, and live comfortably. I was young, had a ton of energy, and was single so I was also able to soak [...]

  Podcasts – An Essential Traveler’s Companion For those of you who have never heard of podcasting – it is NOT: An alien life form that has come to take over Earth A new type of fly fishing technique A new type of vegetable from the pea family A new type of reality TV show [...]