For nearly two decades, I’ve kept a Christian Science Monitor article on the rewards of transcribing family letters and papers. Having completed my family transcription
After our harrowing flight from Chengdu in late 1944, my family spent four nights in Kunming under a moon waxing to full. Japanese warplanes attacked
My father was a gifted storyteller, but he never talked about our family’s departure from war-torn West China in December 1944. I’ve recreated this harrowing story from my father’s perspective.
The joy of international adventure travel comes from exploring local cultures with curiosity and an open mind.
Whether inherited or acquired, I too consider traveling to be adventurous. But that wasn’t always my mindset…On Kodiak, perhaps it was the island life, especially the closeness to nature that was so profoundly healing for me.
When I first heard the term “sense of place” in the late 1980s, it immediately resonated with me. Mountains and mountainous landscapes are my special places.