Travel adventures
I first went to France — to Paris — when I was 19. Maybe 20. I remember eating omelet sandwiches while sitting on cast iron park benches. I remember seeing the pointillist painters and going up to look the gargoyles in the eye at Notre Dame Cathedral. I had a mean English boyfriend with blue …
We launched our 2012 fundraising initiative at TBEX 12, The Travelblog Exchange. Here’s the video that was part of our presentation. Want to know more? It’s all on Passports with Purpose. Can’t see it? Go here.
I don’t post link roundups anymore, I use Facebook for sharing and I rarely hand over what is, to me, prime real estate, for other people’s stories. I am, as you know, a terrible snob about what people call “content.” I actually hate the word “content” because in my mind it equates with “filler” and …
A few days ago, my friend K. returned to me a postcard I’d sent him from Australia in 1996. The caption says “Bicycle riding has become increasingly popular in Australia” and it pictures a kangaroo wearing a bike helmet and riding a bike across what must be outback territory, it’s red dirt and scrub. I …
Without question, the most beautiful and moving thing I’ve done on Memorial Day was attend the Honolulu Lantern Floating Festival. The lanterns are free (leave a donation if you like) Stop by the tent and write a message to your ancestors (or whoever you feel you’ve lost) on a paper lantern. Then, after a spectacular …
I was up in the “attic” of the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History yesterday, on a balcony lined with boxes and metal lockers and drawers with those little metal slots designed to hold a label that says something in Latin, or something illegible in an elegant script, or something neatly typed on a yellowing index …