Travel to learn. Learn to travel.
Floods, illness, scams, robbery, pandemics, taking the wrong train, losing our daughter, motor falling off a boat in a storm. Not all our travel experiences have been idyllic. But what seems like a disaster often turns into a sound lesson for future travels, not to mention a funny story or a trip highlight.
Find the silver lining: Part 1 of travel disasters, robbery, and other mishaps Read more
I stumbled across a poem by Ben Okri that stopped me in my travel-writing tracks. “Live while you are alive,” he wrote. “See things with fresh and open eyes.”
“Live while you are alive”: a Ben Okri poem that inspires my travel soul Read more
Bill looked up from booking our flights for a one-week trip to England. Ryanair had the least expensive, but we’d pay extra for carryon bags. “Can we do it with just a personal item each?” he mused.
Pack lightly– or ultra lightly! – for more travel freedom Read more
Fumbling for coins, waving arms to keep the lights on, balancing while squatting, rummaging in your bag for toilet paper, solving the “how to flush” mystery, getting locked in a stall. Anyone who has left the familiarity of their own bathroom to travel abroad will have toilet tales.
2P to pee and other travel toilet tales Read more