On this trip, I am going to be going to five different Stan countries. Unfortunately, we only spent a couple of days in Kazakhstan. And we only went to Almaty which is just a few hundred kilometers from the Chinese border in the southeast corner of the country. Kazakhstan is the ninth largest country in… Read More What I have learned about Kazakhstan

Our first adventure for the day was a brief stop at the Memorial for Kazakhstan independence. It’s actually one of the nicer memorials that I have visited. At the four corners of the Memorial or four statues, one and older man, two older woman, and then a statue of a young boy and a horse… Read More 2nd Day in Almaty

We had quite a mix of activities today. We started out at the natural history Museum. There was a good display showing how the nomadic people lived in this area. There also must’ve been a good source of gold dating back thousands of years because there was a whole room dedicated to these incredible gold… Read More First Full Day in Almaty, Kazakhstan

I arrived in Almaty this morning at 5 AM. Took a cab to the hotel and had a short nap before I went down for the buffet breakfast. I hoped to find more ethnic food on the buffet, but there really wasn’t any. The breakfast was more than adequate, but not exciting. I just went… Read More First Impressions. Almaty, Kazakhstan.

I am off on a four week adventure. My first stop is Boston to visit two of my freshman year college roommates. I will then fly to Almaty, Kazakhstan with an overnight stop in Frankfurt. I will be a solo participant in a Roadscholar tour traveling the Silk Road in Central Asia. We will be… Read More On the way to Central Asia to Travel the Silk Road

I got home a couple of days ago and crashed. Before I left Boston, I treated my friend and I to a main lobster dinner.  My next adventure will be in September when I will be going to Central Asia to travel along the silk Road. Until then.

After leaving Israel, I made a stop in Boston to visit with my freshman year College roommates. We have known each other for 64 years. It’s amazing how much fun we have when we get together how much we enjoy each other’s company after all these years. One of my roommates from Connecticut came up… Read More Boston and Cape Cod

Tomorrow morning, I move onto Boston to visit with some college roommates before returning home to Portland. Today I took the light rail up to Mount Hertzl where the National Cemetery and Yad Vashem are located. I choose not to go to Yad Vashem, the holocaust museum, because I have been there two times. I… Read More Last Day in Jerusalem

I have now been in my Airbnb for two days. The Melton tour people put up a website with additional pictures. I would like to include some of them in the blog. On my first day on my own, I was too tired to do much of anything. I just took the light rail up… Read More On my own in Jerusalem