Travels – Fran & Rich's Travel Adventures

December 13, 2025

Introduction

Introduction Fran and Rich Juro have visited 180 out of the 195 countries or so. The only nations we haven’t been to are Afghanistan […]

July 7, 2020

Europe on $5.00 a Day: True Stories (1966)

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 […]

November 13, 2023

Memories of Ukraine (1966 and 2001)

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 […]

January 1, 1971

Haiti Memoir (1971)

Haiti (1971): Baby Doc and the Empty Maternity Hospital By Rich Juro Fran and I had our first two kids, Kevin and Kimara, now ages two […]

November 13, 2023

Exploring the Upper Amazon (1975)

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 […]

June 17, 2024

Medical Interventions (!) in Our Travels (1976)

Medical Interventions (!) in Our Travels Hong Kong – 1976 Almost 50 years ago, we were on a tour of the Orient and Fran struggled […]

June 18, 2024

Inner Mongolia (1978) and Outer Mongolia (1980)

Inner Mongolia (1978) and Outer Mongolia (1980) by Rich Juro There’s two political Mongolias: Inner Mongolia is a northern province of China, and Outer […]

July 21, 2025

Egypt (1978) and (1984)

Egypt (1978) and (1984) by Rich Juro 1978 We took two different trips to Egypt years ago. In 1978 we took a “regular” tour […]

July 22, 2025

Vietnam and Cambodia (1979)

Vietnam and Cambodia (1979) By Rich Juro It was almost 50 years ago so our memories are unclear, but these are the highlights of our Vietnam […]