World Heritage Day: Celebrate the Sites
Did you know that April 18 is World Heritage Day? Well, I didn’t either until recently; a shame because I’ve been…
Category: Travel Stories
Airsick and Stuck in the Middle Seat
Moments before boarding the plane for the last leg heading home, I felt that queasy belly badness that lets you…
Packing for Travel: Know Thyself
Packing for travel has one certainty, one hard and fast rule: there is no certainty and no hard and fast…
Why Travel to Cuba? ¿Por que no?
Maybe George Mallory had it right. “Because it’s there,” he is famously reported to have answered. The question being, of…
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.…