August 2017: Our latest adventure takes us on an overnight silk road train from Beijing to the autonomous Ningxia Hui Province of China. Ningxia borders inner-mongolia and its population, who lacks access to the same high quality healthcare that is available in the large cities, is predominantly Muslim. The people are a mixture of Hui…

June 2017: Goldsteins are back at it! Well, not all of us this time, but Dad and I are back in Phnom Penh, Cambodia this week. Business first, as we check-in on our cervical cancer research study at the Sihanouk Center for Hope. The HPV detecting machine, a donation from Dad’s new foundation, The Gynecologic…

August 2016: We’ve been home for a few months now, and apart from the re-entry to American society  (from which I’ll spare you the details), we have each had busy summers. Nonetheless, wanderlust has struck! Eager to get back on the medical volunteerism track (and recognizing the importance of sustainability in global health) the Goldsteins…

Here’s a map of our travels, every single step of the way! Click on the lower image to make it larger.

I never wanted to teach. My only real (paid) teaching job was on college breaks when I was a substitute teacher at my high school, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, in Annandale, Virginia. I learned that as a sub, teaching wasn’t important. But memorizing the names of a few students, and calling…

We were lucky enough to arrive in Cambodia during the Khmer New Year. Actually, the holiday is referred to as Happy Khmer New Year, as in “today is the first day of Happy New Year!”, and “Angkor Wat is very busy because of Happy New Year today”! And it is, truly, a happy celebration. Local…

Hue, Vietnam. Certainly not the most popular tourist spot, but the small city in the central region (near the DMZ) has plenty of culture to offer. Aside from the beautiful Citadel and Imperial city (impressive to say the least), many of its other landmarks, from the Nyugen Dynasty, were partially destroyed by bombings during the…

After two weeks of walking back and forth to work each day past the same local “minder”, lying down, bare feet on the handles of his motorbike, I was finally spoken to. “Moto?”, he asked, pointing to his bike. I figured he wondered where my moped was, given the heat (95 degrees in the shade)…

There is so much to love about the isolated mountainous town of Sapa, only a few miles from the Chinese border, in northern Vietnam. First, relief from the otherwise hot and humid climate in the low lands of Vietnam. Next, streets lined with North Fake and Funder Armour shops. And, last but not least, fresh…

We just finished 2 amazing weeks working with Children of Peace International (COPI) in Vietnam. Before I describe our experience, I want to share some history from www.childrenofpeace.org. COPI was founded by Binh Rybacki who left Vietnam with her family at the age of eighteen. The American government evacuated her family in the last days…