Travels – Page 2 – Fran & Rich's Travel Adventures

January 1, 1979

New Guinea (1979)

New Guinea: The Anthropologist and Tribal Justice By Rich Juro When Fran told her Uncle Art in 1979 that we were going to New Guinea, he […]

December 12, 1980

Three Visits to Myanmar (1980)

Three Visits to Myanmar By Rich Juro I. 1980 The Land Tour When we went to Myanmar (Burma) the first time in 1980 you […]

May 19, 1981

Finland’s Jews: Were They Really Fighting Alongside the Germans in WW II? (1981)

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 […]

July 7, 1982

Micronesia: Yap, Chuuk, Ifaluk, and Pohnpei – Stone Money, Underwater Airplanes, and More (1982)

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 […]

December 12, 1984

Tibet (1984)

Tibet (1984) By Rich Juro We had visited China before, so we signed up with the Himalayan Mountaineering Company to tour Tibet. We flew […]

December 19, 1987

Komodo and Sulawesi: Boogeymen, Big Snails, Bigger Dragons and the Biggest Funerals (1987)

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 […]

January 3, 1988

The Best WWII Refuge for Jews in Occupied Europe Was…Albania?? (1988)

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 […]

January 1, 1990

Over The Hindu Kush From China To Pakistan (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 3, 1993

Alexander Hamilton, the Broadway Hit, and the Jewish Connection (1993)

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 […]