Farmers near Tominian in eastern Mali rely on rain to grow food. With a dry season that lasts as long as nine months, farming is only possible for a short amount of time each year. During...
One of the many cool music events about the Bay Area is Kate Burkart's Under the Covers Acoustic Series, which features three artists performing covers of three other artists in rotating sets. On the bill...
By Megan McDonough on February 11, 2012 in Africa, Chile, Egypt, England, Europe, Featured, London, North Africa, Photos, Santiago, Seville, South America, Spain, Wales
Like any traveler, there are cities and towns we visit that provide instant comfort to our wandering soles. To this day, I can think of five places where I allowed peace to swallow me whole....
There are at least 26 important pyramids, along with enclosures and mounds, in the 540 acres of Tucume in Peru. Constructed of mud brick, they are located on the plain surrounding the La Raya Mountain,...
Lanterns from last years Lantern Festival
For the second year
in a row, my wife and I have tried to make it to the Lantern Festival in our
community. Last year, it was on Sunday,
which make it impossible...
I’ve literally just landed in Melbourne, Australia, where I’ll begin my very first visit to the continent “down under.” This trip is an important personal milestone because I’ve now visited all six inhabited continents, which...
I instinctively made it to the office building; it had been two years since I was there and even though the buildings around it had changed, the Ger to Ger office building stood out to...
The Finnish word for the northern lights, or aurora borealis, is ‘revontulet’, meaning fox fire. This originates from an old folk tale in which an arctic fox started fires by running through the snow covered...
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