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Far away, so close!
I write from Beijing, China, where a spell of hot, dry weather has just broken through the summer humidity. A thirteen hour trip - direct from NYC - landed me here just three days ago.
Although I've just traveled around the globe, it sometimes feels like I've only traveled around the block. Perhaps, in part, [...]
You Can’t Take It With You
Photo Steve Bailey
I travel a bit heavier than I used to. When I fly to Austria I usually have one bag that's full of books, only. That takes up a significant amount of my luggage allotment. I don't carry a lot of other stuff, I have a decent winter wardrobe here and it's not like you [...]
The Empty Middle - Toronto at Yonge and Dundas
Toronto's Yonge St "where billboards fall on people".
Photo by Sylvia Nowak.
By Saturday, January 7, 2006, the Jane Creba memorialósmall bouquets, compassionate poems, candlesóhad grown steadily, pushing its way across the sidewalk in front of the Foot Locker store on Yonge Street where the fifteen-year-old was gunned down on Boxing Day. As I stood there [...]
So Close, Yet So Far: Let Me Pass Through CDG, S’il Vous Plait
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CDG, airport code for Charles de Gaulle, Paris. CDG, acronym for Criminy Dag Gonnit!
I spend the holidays in Paris. It is a 'must' tradition. I haven't missed a New Year's there in many. The highlight is [...]
Bergamo: A City of Surprises
Expect the unexpected. This is our mantra when we travel abroad. Lost luggage, misplaced reservations, poor directions, delays at the airportóall are possible, but so are unanticipated pleasures.
It was just an overnight trip, a convenient stop en route to Malpensa Airport in Milano. We had booked one night in the Hotel Excelsior San Marco [...]
In Search of Lost Civilization: Tikal and El Mirador, Guatemala
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The nice smooth tarmaced road in Belize turned abruptly to a potholed rut (or was it a rutted pothole?) once across the border. Gone were the concrete houses set in gardens, replaced by crude wooden huts with bare earth floors inhabited by people eking out a subsistence life on land poorly suited to farming. Belize [...]
Intertwined Tent Ropes in Munich
Camping Under an Elderberry Tree
Tin Whistler Feeding Irish Crisp Sandwiches to the Mascot
My tent was strategically placed on high ground under an elderberry tree; the superior location at such a populated campsite was due to my length of residence. A small vase of flowers sat inside on a dairy crate of clothes. Above it a [...]
The Passeggiata in Siena: Taking a Walk on the Slow Side
Siena piazza on a summer night. Photo by Gary Cattell.
When in Italy, we often avoid the big cities and search instead for old-world italia, where customs and rituals still create the framework of daily living. One of these traditions is the passeggiata, a slow walk before supper, where friends and relatives stroll arm-in-arm through the [...]
Paradise is Ko Lanta
Skimming along the waves as we pass Ko Phi Phi.
Unfortunately, these eight weeks have slipped away far too fast and the final blog entry is now upon me. Yet there was no better way to finish the adventure than heading to the Andaman Sea, and the tiny island of Ko Lanta — paradise by all [...]
To Venice for Lunch
We didn't have a lot of time and we had less money, so we had to figure out how to do this creatively. 'An appetizer,' said Sabine, my friend and Italian speaking guide. (Sabine resides at Tuscan Casa San Francesco.) We would take the night train, spend the day in Venice, then take another evening [...]
