Rome is the ideal place for a fantastic holiday. As the first official guest blogger of ‘Go with Oh’, I visited the historic city and enjoyed its warm climate, wonderful works of art and its many Roman ruins. I visited some old favorites like the Colosseum, and some never before seen sites like the Vatican [...]

My Holiday Video tradition lives on! Holiday Greetings to everyone has stumbled by my little online home in 2011. It was a really busy travel year  – I go through the staggering numbers in the video – so watch closely! In making this video it was a good time to reflect upon my 2011 travels.  [...]

We slowly moved deeper into Mongolia where the foreign landscapes, people, and towns started to become normal to me. We were moving from western Mongolia into Central Mongolia and the Gobi Desert; from Altai to Bayankhongor. The landscapes changed dramatically as we left the Altai mountains and hills behind and had nothing but perfectly flat [...]

When I was a kid I used to have this thing called a ‘bubble’; it was made of Styrofoam in the shape of an oval about a foot long.  It was used for swimming…actually it kept me from sinking.  The bubble was strapped around my waste and basically kept me afloat in the pool. I [...]