Keep a journal! Learn to write about your experiences with detail and insight. “We shopped for shoes today” is not as interesting as “The little old man who sold shoes on the sidewalk looked as if he had been living in the streets for decades. His clothes were worn and wrinkled and he shuffled about […]
From a highway’s black ice in Alabama to gravel mountainous roads in the Kingdom of Swaziland, my fun Chevy Spark rental cars provided a great backdrop to some of my American and African adventures. It all started with a severe winter ice storm moving across the southeastern United States and airlines canceling thousands of flights, including my next […]
Looking in to the eyes of a foreign person wearing his military camouflage is intimidating, no matter what you are doing or where you are. In our case, we were simply driving across an isolated mountainous area and not 100 yards into our cross-mountain road, I made eye contact with the first pair of eyes […]