The world’s best aquariums include Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium, Seattle Aquarium, Dubai Aquarium, Shedd Aquarium, SEA Life Aquarium Sydney, Aquarium of the Pacific, SEA Life Center London, Georgia Aquarium, Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan, Lisbon Oceanarium, Monterey Bay Aquarium, Genoa Aquarium, Kenting National, Blue Planet Aquarium. Adventure Aquarium, Two Oceans Aquarium, AquaRio, and SEA Life Istanbul.
Read MoreDreaming of visiting Kyoto, Japan? Traveling can be stressful, especially when you have a chronic illness, disability, or chronic pain. Find out how to plan your accessible trip to Kyoto's top attractions. Including Golden Pavilion Kinkaku-Ji, Silver Pavilion, Philosophers Walk and Nazen-Ji Temple.
Read MoreThis would be easy enough. On July 4th I would fly twelve and a half hours from Los Angeles to Shenyang, China, have a 3 hour layover, then board the two hour flight from Shenyang to Beijing, where I would spend the night in a hotel by the airport, get up the next morning, meet the dogs at airport check in, and deliver them all to San Francisco. It was a good plan. …Except that’s not how it went at all.
Read MoreThis trip wasn’t about sightseeing. While China has many spectacular sights, sounds, and tastes, I was here to help feed, medicate and clean up after over one hundred dogs saved from the meat trade and currently being housed at a safe house.
Read MoreBeijing was my first solo trip abroad. It took a lot to overcome my fear of traveling alone, but life is too short to sit back waiting for other people to buy a ticket to your dreams. Get out there and live! The reward is worth fighting through the discomfort.
Read MoreMy travel adventures began six years ago in Beijing, China. Now how does a chronically ill, broke, introvert with social anxiety and no experience traveling end up alone in Beijing, China? I'm glad you asked. Groupon, silly. For $999, I purchased an 8-day tour package to Beijing with flight, hotel, meals, and excursions included. In all honesty, it wasn't that I had some burning desire to see China in particular. I simply wanted to visit every country in the world, and China seemed like as good a place as any to begin.
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