Month: November 2021

Giving Tuesday: My View From The Road

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“I Wish for World Clean” is a sentiment I see often among the graffiti on the streets of Tbilisi, Georgia, where I am currently staying along my retirement journey. It is just one of the universal themes that need your support now to help save our planet and make the world a better place in which to live. Read more below about how I became involved and what you can do to help.

People I talk to in my travels are often amazed when I tell them how I abandoned retirement life in Hawaii to live a nomadic life on the road.

“Why would you do that?” they ask. “Hawaii’s so beautiful!”

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A Fall Tour of Georgia With Expats And Bears

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The trees of Georgia’s Sabaduri Forest spread a red ochre autumn carpet over its floor, awaiting a long winter’s slumber.

Over the weekend I went with a friend and a local ex-pat group from Tbilisi on a trip that included hiking among the fall colors of the Sabaduri Forest National Park and a visit to a nearby sanctuary for Georgian Brown Bears.

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Sunday’s Mass at the Oldest Standing Church in Tbilisi

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I took this photo the first time I visited Anchiskhati Basilica one weekday morning and was so intrigued with the interior light that I vowed to return for a 9 a.m. mass to catch that gorgeous ray of sunlight again.

I may be a heathen but I love the traditional ceremonies, rituals, art and especially the music of historic churches.

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Stalin Keeps A Firm Grip On His Legacy In This Historic Georgian City

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Gori, a Georgian city of about 45,000 people, capital of the Shida Katli district of Georgia, is probably best known for being the birthplace of Joseph Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953.

Statue of Joseph Stalin outside the Stalin Museum in Gori, Georgia

Gori was important militarily as far back as the middle ages, and the remains of the 7th-century A.D. Gori fortress on a prominent hilltop in the city is a popular tourist attraction. Yet the city’s most well-known attraction is undoubtedly the Stalin Museum.

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