Traveling with Karelin

So far, my friend Karelin and I have done close to 60 land tours, 16 Ocean Cruises with Holland America, 8 with other Cruise lines – Carnival, Norwegian, Caribbean Cruise Line, Cruise & Maritime Voyages, and Celebrity, 10 River Cruises with – AMA Waterways, Viking, Avalon, Vodohod (Russia), American Queen Cruises, and American Cruise Lines. […]

Our Trips to Chile

2008 Without counting the trip we did with our Travel Club in 2015 and the time Karelin was in Chile at the end of our cruise to South America in 2007, Karelin and I have done four more trips to Chile. The first of these trips was in 2008. Karelin said that she really wanted […]

Our 2015 Trip to Chile

Members of the “The Summit Travel Club” got enthusiastic with our presentations about our different trips to Chile and they asked us if we could put together a trip for them. It was plenty of research, but I managed to contact three different companies that agreed to provide an estimate for a trip to Chile […]

First assignment for “Bible Translation”

In 1984, I started volunteering to help the personnel at the United Bible Societies’ Americas Regional Center when a minicomputer with a word processing system and terminals were installed at the desks of the new office in Miami, FL. The center had moved its personnel, including typewriters, from Mexico City, but the American Bible Society […]

Taking my Parents to Europe

It was 1987 and I had to go to Scotland to present a paper at the International Conference on Technology and Education. I decided that this was the best opportunity to take my parents to Europe. It had been in my plans for a while and, if I took my vacation days after the conference, […]

The walk

After I received Jesus into my heart in 1982, I expected big revelations and encounters that would make substantial changes in me and my life. Changed my life He did but it took an extraordinarily long time to change me. The main sign of change I had the day after I came to Jesus was […]

Protection

I traveled a lot by myself but not by myself. Everywhere I went it was His presence that gave me confidence and no fear at all. There were so many occasions when I did not find anybody waiting for me at an unknown country and airport. But God was with me, and he always arranged […]

Finding purpose

I guess as a child I was always thinking about what profession I was going to have. My father was interested in me inheriting his dental practice and my mother wanted me to be a pharmacist so I would not have to move too much away from home. However, I knew that my father had […]

Love at the Kibbutzim

After his arrival to the Kibbutz Antonio’s head was not in the right place according to his own assessment. He could pinch himself! The first night, after an amazing tour of the place, he went to bed thinking about what was going to happen when the Catholic authorities in his Augustinian order found out that […]

Green Peppers at the Beach

The first experience I remember with the Pacific Ocean was incredible. I was 4 years old, and my parents took me to play with the sand, and I learned how to wade in the waves. My parents enjoyed remembering the first time I went by myself to the border of the ocean and a big […]