August 2026 Newsletter Our family spent a super nine days on the Island of Ireland (the Republic and Northern Ireland of the UK). This was a new country for Khadija, #158; I was there in 1987, hard to believe it was almost four decades ago. In the following photo, I’m with our posse: our daughter Halimo, Khadija and my niece Toni and her fiancé Charlie (we’re looking forward to the wedding in Colorado in June) in McGann's. This pub is in Doolin, a village near the Cliffs of Moher and famous...

July 2026 Newsletter Khadija and I spent a few days in Boston. Even though we had both been there, this was the first time together. Khadija spent her first two and half years in the U.S. in the Boston area. She took me to places she worked, lived and studied. We stayed in the Back Bay neighborhood which is full of 19th-century Victorian brownstones and French Renaissance-inspired residential blocks. While walking on the Freedom Trail, we came upon a statue of Bill Russell, one of the...

June 2026 Newsletter I attended the NomadMania conference in Ouro Preto, Brazil. It’s now an annual event where select NomadMania members meet in a rarely visited place to discuss important topics that pertain to organization, while exploring new destinations, catching up with old friends and meeting new travelers. Khadija couldn’t join me as she had upcoming knee surgery (which subsequently has been delayed to September). Ouro Preto (Black Gold) is Brazil’s emblematic Gold Rush capital and a...