At the end of May, Tel Aviv had their annual Pride Parade! I had never been to the one in San Francisco and was not sure what to expect. For some reason I was thinking, the parade would be similar to the Rose Parade, with floats, flowers, marching bands, and awkwardly waving parade participants… but…

Due to some technical difficulties….I have a few Ghana posts left to post! About a month ago, I found myself back in Kumasi for a weekend and a group of us from PPB decided to check out Cape Coast!  Based on the less than relaxing experience we had at Labadi Beach in Accra, I was slightly skeptical…

Ahoy mateys! There is nothing quite like the open sea, its vast open waters, endless diversity, and unexplored depths. Similar to the call of the mountains for me, people have felt the call of the ocean for millennia and have ceaselessly explored its furthest reaches and greatest depths. I have felt a tug of the…

Going into the mountains is like going home for me and it was with much excitement that I drove from the beautiful birthplace of Aphrodite into the heart of the Troodos Mountain of Cyprus! Above our kitchen table, in our former home, we had a quote from our amigo John Muir: “Climb the mountains and…

Why Cyprus? Well it is about a 40 minute flight off the coast and my roundtrip flight only cost $100. That’s the cheapest international flight I have ever taken. Plus as you shall soon see, it has beautiful beaches and mountains. (Kelley:  perhaps a Davis Utopia??  I can wave to Matt on the mountain top…