My Top Tips for Visiting the Washington DC Area

These are my top trip tips for visiting the Washington DC area. There's so much to see, so I would start by making a list of all the amazing historic places and monuments you would like to see. You...

Baltimore, MD, USA: The Shot Tower

Once a mainstay of advanced high tech manufacturing, only few shot towers remain in the world. One of the most accessible is in Baltimore. For about a half a century the Baltimore shot tower (235 ft...

The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Md, Usa.

The Walters is a small museum, with only some 36,000 objects. This is good news for tourists because it means a decent visit to the museum only takes 2-3 hours (by contrast, we spent more than...

Traveling Outside of Seoul: Nami Island and Hwaseong Fortress

I have always lived in a smaller city and NEVER had to use public transportation. In Korea where so many people go far places all the time. During the fall I took three small trips outside of Seoul...

Saudi Arabia - One of Travel's Last Forbidden Frontiers

Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), has been on the bucket list for a long time. Until very recently, it was only possible to visit on a business visa. And women weren't...

Visiting Bahrain - Not Your Stereotypical Desert Island

Bahrain is country number 187. I'm really excited to be able to creep a little closer to my goal of every country after the wipe out that was 2020. Bahrain is the third-smallest nation in Asia after...