When I finally got on the train at the airport and started into Osaka to the stop near my hostel, I was really excited to see the ocean again.  What I didn’t know was that that would be the only…

I would like to tell you everything, but I made a promise and so I can’t. I will say that I saw a more personal side of Berlin through a Couchsurfing experience. I not only got to meet my host…

“Baptism in Dresden”   You were bathed In history Before You were bathed In fire.   Now you are A city Unstuck in time.   The art of the ages Fills your halls And galleries Like beautiful mutes, Staring unflinchingly…

Prague stretched in all directions–modern apartment buildings, church spires, older buildings that reminded me a Vienna, and a massive television tower that threatened to puncture the sky itself.