Celebration time: I’m honored that my travel essay, “Moorstones,” is featured beginning today as the “editor’s choice” on the TravelersTales.com website and on BestTravelWriting.com. The story recounts my trans-formative visits to the enigmatic ancient stone shrine at … Continued
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Wandering in Paris: New travel anthology celebrates the City of Light
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An adventure traveler finds that even rest can be an adventure on a shady lanai on Hawaii’s garden isle, Kauai.
Filed under: Americas, Hawaii, Places, Stories || Tagged under: Featured, Hawaii, Kauai
“The radiance of the stained glass is an impact we never forget,” author Stan Perry wrote of La Sainte Chapelle, the 13th Century chapel built by France’s sainted King Louis IX. Standing in the chapel again last … Continued
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Combing through the bookcase today, I found the catalog from last year’s Olmec show at the DeYoung Museum–enigmatic art from the oldest civilization in the Americas. Exhibits ranged from ten-foot heads to delicate, inch-high jade figures, to … Continued
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The Wanderland Writers had great fun last week at the two launch parties for our new anthology Wandering in Bali. I read from my story “Bali Shadows.” Remembering a long ago adventure rafting with Jack on … Continued
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There are lots of jungle pants–and a few shopping bags as well–in the funny, poignant, adventurous travel stories in the new anthology by the Bay Area Travel Writers, Travel Stories from Around the Globe. These stories may … Continued
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Friends have often asked why I–a klutz with zero athletic aptitude, a stroke survivor on blood thinners–travel to places they see as perilous: the jungles of Thailand or Borneo or Papua New Guinea, for example. Or, more … Continued
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Bear viewing in Alaska: dense spruce forests, pristine whitewater brimming with salmon, and unforgettable, up-close encounters with bears
Filed under: Alaska, Americas, Places, Stories, USA || Tagged under: Alaska, Alaska Brown Bear, Alaska Vacations, Bear Viewing in Alaska, Featured, Grizzlies
Here’s a great opportunity to make a difference by supporting Unicef’s matching gifts campaign. Join me in signing up to become a monthly donor –for as little as $10 a month. If you sign up before February … Continued
