One of the real passions for me is travel and I’ve had some incredible opportunities to enjoy great people & places! While I don’t get to do that everyday, I love putting together info on the trips and have done that here for the trips I have taken since I started the blog. You can find them and a lot of other travel stuff through that category on the blog but I thought it would be good to I have also taken incredible trips pre-blog that I haven’t necessarily written about here…. But I love talking about these trips too so I’m putting together a map in hopes somebody will see this and ask me questions about some of my travels that will help me get a trip top of mind and to the fingertips!
In case the map doesn’t tell you clearly…. I’ve done pretty well in the Northern Hemisphere. Since I live in the United States, I’ve seen it (actually, I’ve gotten to see a lot of the US so maybe I should add a map of that too hmmm). I’ve also seen the US neighbors Mexico and Canada though I have seen so little I hate to face questions from locals. Those two countries need to be done much better! Other countries I have traveled to (with varied amounts of exploration from intense to not enough) include: Austria, Belgium, China, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, The Netherlands / Holland, The Philippines, Russia, Thailand and Turkey. Yes, I have a huge gap in that I haven’t been to the Southern Hemisphere. That’s one of the things I need to fix in the near future. 
The Philippines (January 2010)
- Top 10 Reasons to Watch This Video of Bboy Climbing a Coconut Tree – Okay, I could just say everyone should watch this video! And yes, the photo I put in here shows Bboy having cut a coconut and beginning his one-handed descent! Unbelievable. Really. But for fun, you really need to watch this video if you see yourself in any of the following: You’ve ever wondered how interesting [...] Continue Reading
- My Vacation to The Philippines Included Ag Stuff (Yes, I’m a Farm Geek) – (First in a series of posts about things I got to experience in the Philippine agricultural scene recently I’m not sure how many there will be yet… Guess we will see.) I’m really quite lucky. I’ve had the opportunity to combine vacation travel in a few countries with a short side trip or two to [...] Continue Reading
- Getting Your Word Out Globally Without Global Costs – In my most recent post about “rice world,” I gave a quick view of my visit at the International Rice Research Institute. Since I was going there with a couple of PhDs in plant breeding, I anticipated meeting with scientists (which was exactly what happened in a few other Los Banos institutes)! But I was [...] Continue Reading
- How many kinds of rice do you know?– It’s amazing to me how many kinds of rice there are. I racked my brain trying to think of the ones I could name last week & came up REALLY SHORT! Long-grain rice is probably what I know best cause it’s what most of the farmers I know grow. Varieties like cypress, some of the [...] Continue Reading
A February Field Day? Love the Veggies! – My friends fall into two lots — those who hear the word field day and think of something that happens in the spring to get kids playing outside in a series of challenges from soccer drills to softball and those who are ready to look at acres of food, feed, fiber sources and hear what [...] Continue Reading- Getting My Bearings on The Philippines Central Plains – Another post in my series on Philippine agriculture — this one includes the basics of the Central Plains. As I mentioned before, the host for part of my vacation owns a seed company in The Philippines. We were excited to be going to a field day his company was hosting. I didn’t know what the [...] Continue Reading
- Public Plant Breeding in the Philippines – Plant breeding was one of those fields of study & science that I hadn’t given much thought to til I was older than I’d like to admit, especially since some of my closest friends are plant breeders these days! My friend Albert had worked at The Philippines National Institute for Plant Breeding (IPB) in Los [...] Continue Reading
Israel (May 2011)
A New Perspective While Watching Events in Israel on CNN in the Atlanta Airport – Today was one of those days where I spent my layover time in Atlanta. That’s not that rare nor is it for me to halfway listen to the news broadcast on CNN at the gates. However, today, I suddenly stood up looking for the speaker. The anchor was saying something about Israel and the West [...] Continue Reading- Fishing the Sea of Galilee (Israel) Wordless Wednesday – Last Wednesday I was cruising around Israel’s Sea of Galilee, a body of water I had heard about all my life through Sunday school and other church activities. It was a great day. the final steps of the boat ride included one of the guys on the boat asking if we’d like to see if [...] Continue Reading
- Top 20 Biblical / Religious Sites In Israel Seen During My Recent Vacation – Everyday in Israel we saw fairly incredible places and most, if not all, related to the Bible in one way or another. But narrowing that list down to 20 sites that really grabbed my attention may be hard and I have to say before I even start that prioritizing the list will likely prove impossible [...]Continue Reading
Why do they call the Dead Sea the “dead” sea? What makes it unique? – The Jordan River goes down from the Sea of Galilee to the Dead Sea. It seems to take all the salts in the earth along with it and has for so long according to our guide. And since the Dead Sea has no tributaries leading out of the body of water, the deposits all end [...] Continue Reading- A Couple of Uniquely Beautiful Weddings I Attended this Summer – If you’ve made it to mid-July without attending a wedding, you may want to check and see what’s going on in your world. It seems there is always a wedding to catch in the summer. I had two really different weddings in the past month or so and thought since I had video of both, [...] Continue Reading
- What Grows in Israel’s West Bank? – Recently, I wrote a blog post about the great agricultural production regions in central & northern Israel, we left those places and headed south along the eastern edge of the country along the Jordan River. The landscape changed dramatically as we went south. We were lucky to have a guide had pointed out that the [...] Continue Reading
- Great Food & Restaurants Easy to Find in Israel – One of the first questions I seem to get when I travel overseas is about the food, usually as simple as “What is the food like there?” Sometimes more about “What kind of places did you eat in?” And that’s a question I always enjoy talking through because so far, everywhere I’ve traveled has had [...] Continue Reading
- What’s the Deal with Coffee in Israel? Travel & a Twitter Discussion Fuel a Wordfilled Wednesday – A Twitter Discussion Prompts a Wordfilled Wednesday Tuesday morning came and I published one of the blog posts I had worked up about my trip to Israel. It wasn’t too much longer before I got this tweet from my friend Katie Pinke (of Pinke Post fame): Continue Reading
- Agricultural Production in Israel’s Coastal Plains & the Galilee Region – It happens to me everywhere I go, no matter what I mean to do. Somehow, the very presence of farms draws my attention from anything else. My first visit to agricultural production in the Mediterranean was by car with a dear friend who was showing me around Turkey. The bazillion questions I asked him and [...] Continue Reading
YOU SHOULD VISIT WESTERN AUSTRALIA – NINGALOO REEF!
XOX KRIS
I like that idea!
While you’re at it come & have a look at some cotton in Queensland Australia! We’d be happy to have you!
Australia is certainly on my list! I have friends growing cotton in Queensland & New South Wales!
Thanks for yours nice blog and yours visit our cauntry .
?f you dont come and see Turkey we want see you at here .
Dr Abdurrahman Yücel