Having just spent five weeks in Southeast Asia, I traded in the bikini and flip flops for beanies and boots. Zurich was my last stop on my way home after a Fuller Center Global Builders trip in Lampang, Thailand and extended travel in the area. It may seem odd, spending a week in Zurich in … Continue reading
“…and the world’s your oyster,” so the song goes. I used Bangkok as my landing pad, on my way to Luang Prabang, Chiang Mai and Lampang and again on my way out of Thailand before heading to the Maldives, then Switzerland. I bookended with two nights on the front end, one night on the way … Continue reading
I found the true beauty of Bali is in the hearts of its people, in the land, both cultivated and wild, and in the hospitality so freely offered its guests. Continue reading
Morocco’s largest city was the one we chose to visit after our Global Builders build in Portugal. Casablanca is not only an easy flight from Porto, but offers a direct, nonstop flight to my home. Neither my friend nor I had been to The White City, so we crafted this three-night plan. Continue reading
My nine-day journey throughout Slovakia begins in its capital. Bratislava is quite beautiful, especially the old squares and their landmarks. Once the Hungarian coronation city on the Danube, with its castles and palaces and summer resorts of Austrian nobility, the city retains its charms, even it never was grand. Continue reading
Less than an hour flight from Cluj, Romania and less than an hour drive from Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, where I’d just been is the city once the capital of the Hapsburg Empire, the stately city in a ballgown, Vienna. Continue reading
I traveled to this tiny landlocked Eurasian country to partner with the Fuller Center for Housing Armenia so that another hard-working family could have a decent place to live. Our base for the week was the capital city Yerevan, an unexpectedly delightful and lively city. Armenians are night owls y’all! Continue reading
DAY 1 | Over the hills and through the woods to BREB VILLAGE we go! For our 4-day tour we hired a wonderful local guide, who is from Maramureș, who expertly planned the trip with us, drove, and guided us. Heading north from Cluj into the mountains we stopped at Casa Dobro for a coffee … Continue reading
Hoping a flight from Amsterdam to Cluj-Napoca on LOT through Warsaw, I continued to make my way east, the furthest east I’d ever been on the European continent. I had no idea what to expect, only what I’d read and heard from others visiting Romania’s second largest city, the unofficial capital of the Dracula-famed Transylvania. … Continue reading
Taking advantage of a cheaper flight from the east coast of the USA to get me across the pond, I opted to spend two jampacked days in Amsterdam on my way to Cluj, Romania to meet my volunteer team to build houses with the Fuller Center Romania. Plus, it helped me begin to get over … Continue reading
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