November 13, 2023
To the North Pole on the Yamal (1998) By Rich and Fran Juro For some unknown reason, we decided to head to the North Pole at […]
November 13, 2023
Jewish Diaspora We Have Met in Africa and South America Rich & Fran Juro In our travels around the world, we have seen Jews and synagogues […]
November 13, 2023
Memories of Ukraine (1966 and 2001) by Rich Juro The war in Ukraine stirred up our memories of Fran and my two visits to that beseiged […]
November 13, 2023
Exploring the Upper Amazon (1975) By Rich Juro Fran and I were 33 years old. We asked ourselves: why not visit Machu Picchu in Peru, the […]
November 13, 2023
Libya (2008) by Rich Juro Fran and I had an exciting two week trip to Libya in 2008. This was earlier than Colonel Qaddafi’s ouster in […]
August 2, 2022
Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh By Rich Juro After the trip to Lebanon and Syria, our new friends, the Krans, told us they were going to Armenia. […]
May 19, 2022
Finland’s Jews: Were They Really Fighting Alongside the Germans in WW II? By Rich Juro Yes, But…Here’s the Rest of the Story: Some time ago, Fran […]
December 19, 2020
Komodo and Sulawesi: Boogeymen, Big Snails, Bigger Dragons and the Biggest Funerals By Rich Juro Fran and I first journeyed to Indonesia about 35 years ago […]
December 19, 2020
Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria (1999) By Rich Juro This journey occurred in the spring of 1999, during a relatively peaceful time for Lebanon, and before the […]
July 7, 2020
Europe on $5.00 a Day: True Stories By Rich & Fran Juro Madrid and Tangier It was July, 1966. I had just taken the NY Bar […]
July 7, 2020
IRAN – Visit to the Axis of Evil, and Its Jews (2010) By Rich Juro Our visit to Iran was in 2010, after President G.W. Bush […]
July 7, 2020
Micronesia: Yap, Chuuk, Ifaluk, and Pohnpei – Stone Money, Underwater Airplanes, and More By Rich Juro Micronesia is an island nation in the western Pacific, kind […]
February 29, 2020
Central African Republic: Hunting with the Pygmies, Gorilla Love, and Other Stories (2009) By Rich Juro I. The Arrival It was with excitement and some trepidation […]
January 3, 2020
Mali: Fran versus the Diviner of the Desert (2018) By Rich Juro It was with some trepidation that we signed on for a journey through Mali. […]
January 3, 2020
Pristina, Kosovo: A New Country, Bill Clinton, 2 Jews (including an Omahan), and Albanian Muslims (2014) By Rich Juro Why did we decide to journey to […]
January 3, 2020
Alexander Hamilton, the Broadway Hit, and the Jewish Connection By Rich Juro Was Hamilton, one of the founding fathers of our country, Jewish? What was his […]
January 3, 2020
The Best WWII Refuge for Jews in Occupied Europe Was…Albania?? By Rich Juro Yes, the title statement is true. Here’s the story of the only Nazi-occupied […]
November 5, 2019
Journey to Tajikistan, and the Connections… With UNO, No Frills, and Access Bank (2014) By Rich Juro During our recent visit to the remote nation of […]
November 5, 2019
Judit, the Jewish Warrior Queen of Ancient Ethiopia By Rich Juro Have you heard of Judit, the lady who overthrew the king of Ethiopia 1000 years […]
January 1, 2019
Fran&Rich’s Excellent Adventures in Liberia and Sierra Leone (With Stays at the Mamba Point and Mammy Yoko Hotels) by Rich Juro (2018-19) Fran signed us up […]
January 1, 2018
Our Visits to Djibouti and Eritrea Where Are They? What’s to Do? Dinner with the “Ambassador”; And 1 Jew = 1 Synagogue? (2018) By Rich Juro […]
January 1, 2018
The ABC’s of a Visit to the Congo: A=Adventure B=Bonobos C=Chabad By Rich and Fran Juro (2018) Our friend Brian, who conducts safaris in Zimbabwe […]
January 1, 2014
Fran & Rich’s Journey to Hell and Back: East Timor, Nauru, and Tuvalu The Beginning of the Journey Our travel agent, Audrey, named this the trip […]
January 1, 2014
Our Trip to Moldova and the Breakaway Republic of Transnistria (2014) By Rich Juro Fran and I journeyed to Moldova in southeastern Europe because it was […]
January 1, 2013
A Visit to Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana, Including the History of the Jews of Suriname (2013) Suriname Some questions you may have about Suriname: Where […]
January 1, 2013
There are actually 5 “Stans”. The ones listed in the title above, plus Tajikistan. They are located in Central Asia, south of Russia and west of […]
January 1, 2013
Journey to Bolivia: Moon Goddesses, Titicaca, Shamans, Floating Islands, the Original Copacabana, long-lost Cousins, and other Oddities After a wonderful visit to Peru, Fran and I […]
January 1, 2012
Fran‘s Namesake City and The Almost-Absolute Monarchy The Marshall Islands We just had to go to the Republic of the Marshall Islands. We hadn‘t been there, […]
January 1, 2012
Privileged Prisoners in “Alcatraz East”, How Fran Was Almost Arrested, and Other True Stories At the Pyongyang, North Korea, airport immigration counter, the unsmiling guard states: […]
January 1, 2007
We were quite excited to sign up for a two-week tour of Ethiopia. The land of the Queen of Sheba, Emperor Haile Selassie, and the Black […]
January 1, 2004
Greetings (or as son Kevin says in Kiwi-speak, “Kia Ora”), We’re back from Down Under and it was (in retrospect) an excellent trip. We started with […]
January 1, 1990
We had been to the usual tourist destinations in China –the Great Wall, Shanghai, Xian, Guanjo (Canton)–and decided to skip them in order to fly to […]
January 1, 1979
New Guinea: The Anthropologist and Tribal Justice When Fran told her Uncle Art in 1979 that we were going to New Guinea, he couldn’t believe it. […]
January 1, 1971
Haiti (1971): Baby Doc and the Empty Maternity Hospital Fran and I had our first two kids, Kevin and Kimara, now ages two and three, and […]