A tour to any foreign country should include a tour of its places of worship, for religious or cultural purposes -- or simply because...

"I find that the district he named is in the extreme east of the country, just on the borders of three states, Transylvania, Moldavia and...

In my last post, I considered the differences between travel and vacation, and how finally we managed to have a relaxing January getaway...

Our Tuscan Winter started in Milan, but after a day that was hard to top, we were ready to head to our destination for the week — the...

Tuscany — it’s impossible to say it without sighing romantically, impossible not to envision ridges of Cypress trees, rolling hills of...

“The clouds were building up now for the trade wind and he looked ahead and saw a flight of wild ducks etching themselves against the sky...

In the U.S., our images of Cuba tend to be eye-popping visuals — colorfully-dressed Cubanos sporting Churchill-size cigars, chromed and...

Our Christmas adventure to Vancouver was more than conspicuous consumption of calories (something quite easy to do in this epicurean...

We all know that the true meaning of Christmas, and the general spirit of the holiday season, is totally unrelated to gift-giving and...

So much coordination was required for my move from Los Angeles to Washington state — organizing years of belongings into piles for sale,...

When my friends and family realized I was, in fact, serious about making a series of road trips between LA and my new home in southwest...

In what seems like — okay, actually WAS — a multiple-year excursion, I have finally made the transition from California Girl to full time...

So yeah, I’ve been away a while, and a lot has happened since I talked to you last. I made this my new front yard: I did a little...

CHIANG MAI, THAILAND, NOVEMBER 2013 I’m bareback and barefoot on the neck of a pregnant elephant named Tip. Her spiky head hair is...

ISTANBUL 2013, DAY 1 The concept of expectations – realistic, unmet or absent, has been much on my mind lately. Facebook memes, self-help...

Florida, April 2013 When I told people I’d be spending three weeks in Florida in April, the first thing that 75% of them said to me was...

INDIA 2012 DAY 2 – Thursday, October 19, 2012 The Qutab Minar We’d had our Baptism by Bicycle Rickshaw in Old Delhi, and I was feelin’ a...

ECUADOR, 2012 We interrupt this trip to India to bring you a brief from the diametric hemisphere (that’s something like the Twilight...

INDIA 2012  DAY 1 – Wednesday, October 18, 2012 It’s said that the official language of India is Hindi, but in reality, it’s honking....

INDIA 2012 Yatara is the Hindi word for travel, and it is derived from Yatana, which is their word for suffering. It means you’ve been...