What happens when your family history spans Russia, China, Japan, Hawaii, and the United States?

In this personal episode of Just Travel with Sandy, Sandy shares the fascinating global story of her family and the discoveries she has made while exploring her roots. Her Russian grandmother, her father Solomon Raphael Colling—born in Shanghai in 1919 and raised in Tientsin (now Tianjin), China—and his years in the Merchant Marine reveal a family history shaped by migration, travel, multiple cultures, and a rapidly changing world.

Sandy explores what it means to grow up with a family story that crosses borders and cultures, and how old photographs, postcards, documents, and memories can reveal connections between generations.

From Russia to China and beyond, this is more than a genealogy story. It's a conversation a ...