(Soldiers parade through Mustafa Kemal Ataturk’s mausoleum in Ankara.) Some recent facets of our journey have been a bit heavy, dark. During our recent swing through Istanbul, three Kurdish activists were found dead in France. We were a bit oblivious to the developments … until we...

We went swimming in the Indian Ocean during our first afternoon in Tanzania. There were lots of jolts to our comfort zones: warm water clogged with trash and weeds, dozens and dozens and dozens of black bodies swimming in the surf around us, no other whites, lots of underwear instead of Eddie...