One minute, I’m walking down the street. The next, I’m marching…with Balinese kids I don’t know. An hour later, I’m in their classroom—teaching them. How the heck did that happen? Read on and discover how Random Travel Moment #7 landed me in a classroom! Where: Amed, Bali I’d been staying […]

This lovely sunflower was standing there, proudly, in front of someone’s house–just waiting for me to take its photo. (Well, not really…it was just there.) What drew me to it was its warm and bold yellow, which stood out against its own green leaves and the green paint on the […]

Written on April 28, 2013 by CB Driver in Nature, Photo of the Day Branch Brook Park in Newark, NJ, is known for its gorgeous cherry blossoms.  Some say the park has more cherry trees than Washington, DC. Others say it comes very close. First Trip to This Park Whatever […]

Yesterday, I was full of emotion as I presented a TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) workshop to about Indonesian English 35 teachers here in a local school district near Payakumbuh in Western Sumatra, Indonesia. When I walked into the room and saw them waiting for me, I felt […]

Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World, called Lake Atitlán “the most beautiful lake in the world,” and I must say it was definitely one of the most gorgeous that I’ve ever seen. Of course, one should judge for oneself. And meanwhile, why now learn a little bit about the […]