California

San Francisco – Alcatraz Island

Being in San Francisco meant I was close to Alcatraz Island so I had to make the trip. Only 1.25 miles offshore from the bay, I took a ferry from pier 33 to this infamous […]

California

Oakland, California

I took the Bartt train from Powell St station to Lake Meritt only a 20 minute train ride to Oakland, home of the Black Panthers.   Visited the Oakland Museum of California which was only […]

Activism

Angela Davis in Conversation

“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world” – Angela Davis What better way to spend International Women’s Day than in conversation with Angela Davis at the Royal Festival […]

California

South San Francisco, Union Square & Bay Area

CALIFORNIA – Home of start-up tech companies such as Google and Amazon and the renowned silicon valley the global center for technological innovations. South San Francisco located in the Bay area of Cali is also […]

Jordan

Travel Tips for Jordan

If you are crossing the border from Israel, be prepared to pay an exit tax which is cheaper if you pay in groups so you could ask to pair up with someone else in the […]