Category: ITKT Blogs
With Thanks to Sachamama: My Family’s Trip to the Amazon
My eyes were bleary after the two-ish hour flight from Lima, but more so from the 3am alarm earlier in the day. I had just landed in Iquitos, Peru with my family – husband Tim, 11-year-old daughter Taylor, and 9-year-old son...
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Borjomi vs. Atlanta: A Tale of Two Georgias
August 8, 2022: People ask me here sometimes, as they often do of foreigners everywhere, where...
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Four Days in Asuncion, Paraguay
For everybody who is looking to explore exotic ruins, visit colonial towns and stunningly lush...
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Sierra Leone – A Diamond Road Trip
I don’t know what day it is anymore. Time is something marked as the sun passes through the...
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The Fabled Island of La Digue
Gorgeous beaches and relaxing vibes are two things that an ideal Island holiday is comprised of....
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Italy May Have Invented Pizza,
but Di Fara Perfected It
New York is one of my favourite cities. I first visited the city four years ago, and it made a...
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Bucharest: What a difference a decade makes!
My first trip to Bucharest, twenty years after the end of Communism, and I'm among few...
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Finding Warmth when Amalfi is Cold
My thick sweater and blue jeans reflected the London winter I left several hours before. Amalfi’s...
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Following the Beatles in India
Back in 1968, music sensation "The Beatles" visited an ashram in Rishikesh, India....
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Thailand’s Koh Chang
Bang! Bang! Bang! After an interval of 5 seconds, I caught it again — the brief and strange...
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Imágenes de Merida (Mayan Capital)
Centuries-old conquistadores’ colonial architecture of Merida. Some kind of...
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Traversing Neverland: Ha Giang Loop
I've had an out-of-body experience or two in my life. At the very least, a brief spiritual...
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