You Never Forget Your First Time: Food Love
You never forget your first time. Furtive and fumbling, painful or sometimes (should we even admit this?) disappointing, that experience…
Author: Barbara J Gabriel
Cuba’s Classic Cars: a Cultural Handshake
Once I heard that satisfying ‘ker-chunk’ of the immigration officer’s stamp and practically got ignored going through customs at the…
Disconnect to Accept the Promises of Travel
With a plane ticket and a smart phone, you can take the family and all of your friends along on pretty…
Rules for Travel: Travel Journal 2015, page 11
Travel Journal, page 11~ 7 October 2015
A Brand New Travel Bag and Some Dumb Purchases
A member of a writer’s group I belong to recently posted this question: If you had to name the dumbest…
10 Common Sense Safety Tips for Travelers
In a previous post I reflected on whether the world is really as dangerous for travel as the media, your…
Traveler as Ambassador: Around the World in 32 Teeth
My new dentist, Dr. Patel, took a trip to several of the world’s countries last week while examining my teeth.…
River Scenes from Austin, Texas
“Austin, Texas.” Say those two words aloud and your mind conjures up images with a soundtrack to accompany them. Festivals, ten-gallon hats,…
Travel Journals: the Mundane and the Moving
Brian and I have recently considered drawing up our wills. So far, we mostly talk about it over rum and tonics…
Haggling in Morocco: Camels and Cabbage
The historic city of Meknes begins to hum with activity, and I’m anticipating a morning of haggling. The sun is not…