There’s hardly an event or celebration in Okinawa, or even a gathering of friends,...
Beth Reiber
Beth Reiber began her freelance travel-writing career pretty much straight out of college, first living in Germany, then writing about the US, and then moving to Japan. Having written Frommer's guides to Japan for more than 30 years and numerous articles, she is an expert on Japan. Her interest, however, is the world. Now living in Lawrence KS, she writes about everywhere she goes.
I didn’t appreciate what I was seeing as I walked the stone streets of...
The world of Japanese sake is so huge, that learning about the famous sake...
Nothing heralds the birth of spring more joyously than Japan’s cherry trees. Bursting forth...
There’s no place in the world like Venice. Nothing even comes close. That Venice...
You can zip between Tokyo and Kyoto on the Shinkansen bullet train in about...
The first time I saw a woman cooling herself with a Japanese folding fan,...
I don’t remember much about my first visit to Granada as a year-abroad college...
I first went to Japan to write some travel articles and ended up staying...
When it comes to the Underground Railroad in Lawrence, Kansas, misconceptions abound. Take the...
This would be the capital if Kansas had been admitted as a slave...
Souvenir stems from the French verb to remember, which is exactly what I do...
I was wandering around Mocagua, one of many Indigenous villages on Colombia’s Amazon River,...
My first years of public education, in the 1960s, were at all-white elementary schools...
I was in the Italian village of my dreams, and yet I couldn’t sleep....
The sky was a striking blue and the air was hot and dry as...
Have you ever gone on vacation but, when you get there, find yourself following...
I thoroughly enjoyed my visit to The Henry Ford, a 250-acre complex in...
I used to associate bobbleheads with those figures I saw as a child in...
Most of Japan’s history–skirmishes and wars between feudal lords, legends surrounding ancestors of the...
Every city changes with the passage of time, but it’s hard to imagine a...
There’s never been an Olympics like this one. Delayed a year because of the...
If you were Black living in Tulsa 100 years ago, chances are you lived...
