ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Santiago Dizon is a retired teacher at El Rancho High School in Pico Rivera, California, a bedroom community of Los Angeles. Santiago taught World History, Anthropology, coached Basketball, Water Polo, and the Academic Decathlon teams for forty years. “I went to school and not to work.”

Searching the world on his summer holidays and with two years of sabbatical, he took a boat, train, buses, and an old VW van from Cairo to Cape Town, Inspired by Africa, he has visited that continent 23 times. Then driving the Silk Road from Xian to Istanbul and kayaking the Danube for a thousand miles are special experiences for Santiago.