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Having Fun During My Solo Trip:  Me on Lions In Kungsträdgården

Life Lessons: My First Solo Vacation

I’ve traveled solo numerous times.  Typically, those were business trips in which I was in and out of the city so quickly that I didn’t have time for anything except the business I was there to conduct.   I had …

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Elephants Bathing in Botswana

Guest Post: A Week in Botswana

If you were looking for a relatively inexpensive, highly entertaining, clean, uncrowded, friendly and relatively safe place to vacation, you would probably not think to look for it

Hötorget Metro Godis Center (Candy Store)

Video: Stockholm Candy Stores

Everyone who knows me know that when I go to Stockholm, I go on a sugar binge.  Stockholm's candy stores are like no other.  And, it's no secret

Halema'uma'u Crater, Hawaii Volcano National Park

My 2011 Travel Year In Review

2011 has been an awesome year for travel.  I left Saudi Arabia for San Diego on December 24th to spend the Christmas holiday with my family in San

Sailboats on Saltsjön

Photo Tour: Stockholm’s Archipelago

Over 30,000 islands make up Stockholm's Archipelago.  Starting in Stockholm, extending out to the Baltic, it's the largest archipelago in the world.  On a recent stay in Stockholm,

Resting on Nohoch Mul

Remembering Cancun

This was a short vacation break.  We had no plans other than to get away from the pressures of work and the rain, rain, and mo' rain in

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Video: Black Chick in Saudi: My Abaya

This is a video about me shopping for an Abaya in Saudi Arabia.  You can read the entire story here:  Black Chick in Saudi  The thing

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Chill Out at the IceBar Stockholm

Don't you just have to go to an ice bar if you're in Sweden?  It's like a law or Stockholm 101 or something.  The once known 'Absolut Ice

Sveriges Riksdag (Swedish Parliament Building)

5 Things I Love About Stockholm

Stockholm is the first European city that I visited.  In fact, I got my first passport, 15 years ago, in order to take that trip.  I love this

Meditation Grove Skogskyrkogården

Stockholm’s World Heritage Site: Skogskyrkogården

Try saying "Skogskyrkogården." Go on, try it. I've tried to say it at least 20 times, with my special Swedish speaking friend pronouncing it, all in the hope

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