“So fearfully and wonderfully Frenchy!”
“It was a pleasure to eat where everything was so tidy, the food so well cooked, the waiters so polite, and the coming and…
La Fete de la Musique
It was no coincidence that La Fete de la Musique, a city-wide, all-night street-jam, occurred on the solstice — indeed, that summer should begin…
Strange Enchanted Coasts: Our Honeymoon
Our Trip: Paris, France: 9 days Friends and family; sightseeing with the masses. Dubai: 36 hours One-night layover, dose of Arab opulence. Pakistan: 1…
And We’re Off: Moon-eyed and wild of mane!
One of the best wedding cards we received pictured a cartoon bride and groom astride a white leaping/flying horse. Our friend, Carol, wrote “YOU”…
A ‘Bon Voyage’ card from my cousin Zoey, Age 4
Note the complex “heart-within-a-heart” imagery; the orange curly-clouds evoke our impending flight, and the center circle can only be a compass rose, as Tay…
What to take and what to leave behind
As counter-intuitive as it seems, the length and scope of our trip actually simplifies this age-old conundrum—11 months, mostly on the move, we’ve got…
Volcano Surfing article
My photos and short first-person story about rock-boarding down Nicaragua’s Cerro Negro will appear in the August issue of MACO Magazine, a Caribbean glossy…
La Despidida
Actually, “Bon Voyage” would be more appropriate for our post-wedding-slash-going-away rager at my parents’ last weekend, seeing as how Paris is our first stop…
Got Plane Tickets?
“Treat your tickets like cash,” said our Airtreks agent.
What’s on the bookshelf
No, these are not all going in my backpack — probably just the LP Pakistan and RG India (we’ll get a guidebook resupply in…