Think about a recent trip you took. It could have been across town, across the country, or across the ocean. When you returned from your trip, did you come home with the contact information of new friends? Did you create memories that go beyond places you visited? Did you connect...

"We shall never cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started, and know the place for the first time." - TS Eliot

Sometimes returning to our roots inspires us to revisit ourselves within the concentric circles of shared destiny. In search...

Stretching for miles along the base of the hillsides just beyond the city of Cairo is a group of ancient cemeteries that occupies approximately 15,000 acres, spreading in all directions. What is most remarkable about the site is that it is home to half a million homeless people who live...

We had always wanted to go to Zanzibar because the name evoked the sound of a mysterious, sexy, exotically inviting island getaway.

After being married for a year I began to feel all the pieces of my life come together with unusual synchronicity. Suddenly I felt a powerful urge to...

The mystical feline Sphinx once guarded the ancient site of present day Cairo. She still presides over the place while posing riddles to those who contemplate her.

Only one of the entries on the original list of the "Seven Wonders of the World" that was first compiled back in the...

Regardless of where our travels take us, it does not change where we come from and the fact that home is defined by where our friends and family members dwell.

In the case of my new best Bedouin friend Hubbly Bubbly - who is my local tour guide -...

What was supposed to be a 7-hour hike with a paid guide through the natural beauty and wilderness of Petra, Jordan became a mini-Odyssey when a rather intimidating cave dweller kidnapped me. Or perhaps he seduced me with his nearly toothless smile, philosophical frankness, and romantic culinary skills.

Getting...