Kharakhorim was once the center of the world’s largest empire and the greatest crossroad of Asia in about 1300 when Chinggis Khan (incorrectly romanized in our history books as Genghis… Read more »

We are on the main road traveling West from Ulaanbaatar. It is a paved, very rough, two lane highway.  Pat and I are sitting in the back seat to avoid… Read more »

I wake up in the middle of the night to a howling wind and then waves of much needed rain in the Gobi Desert.   I am in the most… Read more »

The main historical sites are few in a city which was governed under Soviet rule for 70 years — all bourgeois cultural and religious landmarks were purposefully demolished or allowed… Read more »

We fly into Ulaanbaatar from Seoul with large fluffy cumulus clouds below us and as we land into the Chenggis Khan Airport of Mongolia’s capital city, we are amazed that… Read more »

I have arrived into Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, August 19, 2022, despite the COVID curse that has upended so much of our lives, and personal family health issues that have consumed most… Read more »

Montenegro has had a bloody history and only became an independent country in 2006.  Engaged in warfare back to the Middle Ages, it also had a hard time in the… Read more »

The old City of Dubrovnick still stands surrounded by high walls but our guide informs us that it has been a struggle to keep it a living city. Its inhabitants… Read more »

We leave Split, once again with our excellent driver Marin, and our van carries us along on a sunny morning to the small town of Ston, known to be one… Read more »

The city of Split has long been at a critical crossroads of world history with access across the Adriatic from Italy,   Our wonderful Hotel Fermai, a restored mansion, is… Read more »