Wishing peace on earth, good will to all this holiday season.
“Just don’t don’t fall down, and whatever you do, don’t hit your head.” That instruction from my doctor led to my quest for the perfect hiking pole.
Filed under: Travel Gear, Travel Tips
Branches snapped and cracked above my head as a screaming whoop-whoop sliced the heavy air. A black-red shadow screeched in high register: wu-ow … wu-ow … as it swung toward me and landed with a rustle in a small tree to my right.
Filed under: South Asia || Tagged under: Featured
For anyone – especially any woman – who loves Paris, Joanna Biggar’s new novel, That Paris Year, is a delight both to the senses and to the heart. It’s perfect trip reading for anyone planning a visit.
Filed under: Europe, France, Paris, Places, Travel Books || Tagged under: Featured, France, Paris, travel literature, trip rreading
Twenty short stories and poems by travel writers from Costa Rica and abroad comprise a delightful new anthology of travel literature about one of the world’s favorite vacation spots.
Filed under: Central America, Costa Rica, Travel Books || Tagged under: Featured, Travel Books
I am difficult to fit. Truly comfortable walking shoes are rarer than four-leaf clovers. Try these…
Filed under: Travel Gear, Travel Tips || Tagged under: Walking shoes
On our second night in the Serengeti I started awake to a growling sound. Low. Deep. Close. Then an angry, snarling, agitated sound. Louder. Closer…
Filed under: Africa, Places, Stories, Tanzania || Tagged under: Featured, Hyena, Safari, Serengeti, Tented camping
In northern Thailand’s Nan Province, we visited with a band Mlabri, or Yellow Leaf People who lived isolated in the forest for centuries until they were driven out by deforestation. Today, they’ve achieved Thai citizenship and an economic niche making and selling had-woven cotton hammocks
Filed under: Asia, Places, Stories, Thailand || Tagged under: Featured, Mlabri tribe, Thailand's Hill Tribes, Thailand's Yellow Leaf People
Hongcun, a Ming Dynasty village in Southeast China’s Anhui Province, sits at the southwestern tip of Huangshan – Yellow Mountain. Scenes from the hit film “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” were set in this mystical village.
Filed under: Asia, China, Places || Tagged under: Featured, Huagshan, Yellow Mountain
When my friends ask me about it, I tell them APS is like the opposite of hemophilia. While hemophiliacs can’t stop bleeding, APS patients throw clots when we shouldn’t.
Filed under: Travel Health || Tagged under: Anne Sigmon, Antiphospholipid Syndrome, APS, Stroke and Autoimmune disease
