After lunch, I wanted to smoke a hookah. Mohamed, our other guide, laughed. “You mean a shisha, my sister. What kind of flavor do you want?” Shisha (called a hookah in places like Turkey),… Read more…
Experience Transcendent Spiritual Awakening with Our Travel Tours
Maybe you're sitting at your computer desk at this very moment, dreaming of a faraway destination where you will find respite from ... Read more…
The first time I ever sat with Ketut, and heard essentially the same patter delivered to fifteen people in a row, I decided to have a little fun. To let him know I was on to his game. So after the last client was ushered out of the courtyard I said, “Now, Ketut I’m going to give YOU Read more…
or some of us, our tours are marked by visits to islands of happiness; for others, we seem to travel from tragic place to tragic place, as if the only hotels open to us were the sad, run-down ones where the mattress sags, the coffee is cold, and the staff is only ever rude. Read more…
The Tastiest Streets in Madrid
“Madrid has none of the look that you expect of Spain... yet when you get to know it, it is the most Spanish of all cities, the best to live… Read more…