Andrea Hoag is an author living in Lawrence, Kansas, with a degree in Italian language and art history, and has been taking kids around the world and writing about it since 1999. Year. Hogue has spent his days hiking mountains in Scandinavia with his intrepid Norwegian cousin, learning survival tricks on a German kindergarten playground (bring and sharing gummy worms!), and working as a museum security guard. Mesmerize and let you see the off-limits collection. Her travelogues, book reviews, and essays have appeared in The Washington Post, USA Today, San Francisco Chronicle, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Kansas City Star, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and others. She braved her 105-degree weather to visit the International Ceramics Museum in Faenza with the artist’s daughter and traveled to America with her son’s AAU her basketball team. but she is always working on new personal essays.