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Streetfood in China
Although, I'm into street food, I have found a few foods where I drew the line - like live scorpions in Beijing, China. They're actually...

Laura Peters
Feb 14, 20221 min read


Street Food in Kolkata!
After thoroughly enjoying a street food tour in Bangkok, Thailand in 2017, my daughter, Rebecca, thought we would benefit from a similar...

Laura Peters
Feb 14, 20221 min read


When the Scenic Route Hits a Road Block
In 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 Peters
Feb 12, 20223 min read


Kishiwada Danjiri Matsuri
In 2012, my middle daughter, Claire, had arranged to spend the year studying Japanese in Sapporo, Japan. Since I had never been to Japan...

Laura Peters
Feb 3, 20222 min read


Sometimes 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 Peters
Feb 1, 20223 min read


Santa Fe
Offspring tourism started when, in 1983, I invited my parents to attend the Santa Fe Film Festival called, “The Spirit of Zoetrope,”...

Laura Peters
Jan 24, 20222 min read
It All Started with a TV Ad
By 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....

Laura Peters
Jan 16, 20221 min read
Raising Global Citizens
When I was 28 years old I was offered a very cool job in New York, but, although I had visited the Big Apple, I had never lived there and...

Laura Peters
Jan 10, 20222 min read
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