Laura PetersApr 23, 20222 min readCherry Blossoms on the National MallSometimes when you’re traveling with others via offspring tourism or with friends, you have to break with the program, or work around it,...
Laura PetersFeb 12, 20223 min readWhen the Scenic Route Hits a Road BlockIn 2019, my daughter, Rebecca, and I flew from Leh, Ladakh to Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, both in India. If we had thought the security...
Laura PetersFeb 3, 20222 min readKishiwada Danjiri MatsuriIn 2012, my middle daughter, Claire, had arranged to spend the year studying Japanese in Sapporo, Japan. Since I had never been to Japan...
Laura PetersFeb 1, 20223 min readSometimes You Don’t Ram the Mercedes I have no idea why I woke up thinking about the day my daughter, Rebecca, did not ram into her father’s Mercedes as she backed out of the...
Laura PetersJan 16, 20221 min readIt All Started with a TV AdBy the time I was six years old I was captivated by the idea of far away lands. A babysitter I had was an elderly woman from Switzerland....