I love connecting with other travel bloggers, usually on Twitter, sometimes on Facebook, and on too-rare occasions in person. The Tripbase My 7 Links project on which this post is based is a unique forum which gives me yet another way of connecting with bloggers. Here I’ll be sharing posts I’ve written in the seven [...]

I first started hearing the planes at about 1:00 p.m. Israel time yesterday, so loud that I figured they were fighter jets which so often pass through the skies here. A look out the window, though, showed me not large grey warcraft but a couple of yellow planes so small I thought they must be [...]

When planning my trip to Southeast Asia, I decided to head to Cambodia before Vietnam in large part because, as an American, I had to apply for a visa before I traveled to the latter country. I didn’t want to go to the expense and trouble of sending off my passport to the Vietnamese embassy [...]

It is now Passover here in Israel. Like other Jewish holidays, I have heard of this particular holiday, known as Pesach in Hebrew. I believe back home in the U.S. it is marked in tiny print on calendars. When Pesach occurs in the States, I have never been remotely aware it is taking place. Now [...]

After much, much ado, last night at 6:47 p.m. Greenwich Mean Time plus three (local time here in Israel) I launched what I believe is a one-of-a-kind website.  It is my hope that Traveling the Middle East will, possibly, possibly begin the process of helping to partially tear down the frightening facade of the Middle [...]

Immersing myself in every local culture I enter is part of my traveling shtick. I just love experiencing life on the other side – whereever in the world that other side may lie. This can be quite the breeze when I’m in Western or westernized parts of the world. Never, though, have I spent as [...]

My habit is to stay in various locations for-almost-ever, which I think gives me far better insight into the ways of the world than by just passing through. My love of staying put may also be due to the fact that I hate traveling. Back in October of last year I wrote Six Reasons to [...]

Say “the Mid East” to Westerners and you’ll likely conjure up visions of explosions, beheadings and armed Taliban at worst and near-empty countries comprised solely of sand dunes, wandering camels and repressed women at best. Decades of continuous bad press have wiped the entirety of the Mid East off the travel map for many people, [...]