Horse Riding and Travel: 5 Reasons to Ride
Steel horseshoes struck 500-year-old cobblestones, echoing off brick walls of the homes and shops lining Callejón del Aguacate. Astride Frina, I…
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Using Offline Maps for Travel
Using cellular data when traveling is costly. Squandering it to find your way around an unfamiliar city eats up your data…
STEP Program: Travel in the Age of Terror
A couple of months before I took a trip to Europe bombs exploded in Brussels, including two at the airport.…
Amsterdam Bicycle Tour for Independent Travelers
Independent travelers avoid organized tours because we hate other people. Okay, I’m mostly joking
Driving in Morocco: a Search for Solitude and Connection
A funny thing happened on the way to Chefchaouen. We went driving in Morocco for three months. From Tangier to…
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…
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…
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