Julie from LA

Goodbye Iraq. (JULIE IN IRAQ)

Mission: Become a domino-playing champion in Slemani (JULIE IN IRAQ)

Mission: Build a snowman in Erbil (JULIE IN IRAQ)

Mission: Drink Chai at Duhok’s most beautiful viewpoint (JULIE IN IRAQ)

Mission: Learn to cook in Iraq’s food capital of Mosul (JULIE IN IRAQ)

Mission: Learn to play the oud in Basra, Iraq (JULIE IN IRAQ)

Mission: Catch a fish in the Mesopotamian Marshes (JULIE IN IRAQ)

Mission: Stomp on the same ground as the literary hero Gilgamesh (JULIE IN IRAQ)

Mission: Visit the fortress on the back of the 5,000 Dinar Bill (JULIE IN IRAQ)

Mission: Explore Mosul, Iraq (JULIE IN IRAQ)

Mission: Have an appointment to dye in Samarra, Iraq (JULIE IN IRAQ)

TRAILER: JULIE IN IRAQ

I spent a day in Nukus with Karakalpakstan's biggest pop star

Mission: Meet the King of the Roma in Soroca, Moldova

I attended the Yazidis' Annual Fall Festival (Kurdistan Region, Iraq)

I rode all 43 stops of the Tashkent metro in one go (Uzbekistan)

I visited the Jews of Bukhara, Uzbekistan

I crashed a wedding in Samarkand, Uzbekistan

I bought a pet goat in Karakol, Kyrgyzstan

I spent a day in Osh, Kyrgyzstan

I walked across Liechtenstein in a day

CHISINAU, MOLDOVA: Sites to see, exploring the city, talking with locals