All in Travel / Adventure
“Weary of the stay-at-home routine of the past almost two years, my traveling shoes recently begged for a little adventure. The clamor for something to do got loud enough that I finally yielded and packed them and a weekender bag. I decided to check out the northern Michigan area near the town of Petoskey. A good book on tape made the 190-mile drive feel brief.”
“I have always loved flying… There’s something magical about gazing out dreamily, letting the landscape below serve as a motion-picture screen of terrain and geography. I muse about the people down there. Who are they? Are they happy? How are they doing in these times?”
“Elephant Nature Park, 60km outside of Chiang Mai, Thailand, is populated by many elephants with stories of abuse and neglect. This remarkable place was founded in the early 1990s by Lek Chaillert, a visionary woman who set out to change long-standing use (and misuse) of these majestic animals.”
“Far-away places seem ever so much more so lately...but let’s go to the Weddell Sea anyway. It’s an historical Sea, often trapping explorers and thwarting expeditions… As part of the icy world cupping the southernmost extent of the planet, the Weddell Sea is about as far away from our COVID world as a person can get.”
“If the Falkland Islands seemed remote to me when anticipating a November expedition to the southernmost seas, then South Georgia was a bit mind-blowing…”
“It was early spring when our journey began… The remote Falklands archipelago consists of two main islands and more than 775 smaller islands, only a handful of which are populated by humans.”
“I pondered for weeks over how to best present the immensity of my latest adventure when it (far) exceeds easy expression. For starters, there are more than 6,000 images from my cameras to sift through in a frustrating effort to pick the best ones…”
“Valparaiso is built on 42 hills (and they are steep)! We wandered the communities on the hillsides on our own, stumbling across dozens of examples of this beautiful artform.”
“After many trips to our 49th state, I’ve found that every nook and cranny is wonderful in its particular way.”
“We traversed the expansive Victoria Park and rounded a corner to see Bath’s famous Royal Crescent, foregrounded by one of the final way markers for the Cotswold Way.”
“Midway through our 70 miles on the Cotswold Way, our party took an entire day off… leaving us with an entire day in the delightful town of Wotton-Under-Edge!”
“Ah, to walk! And to have nothing to do but walk for the day’s agenda: what a slice of heaven.”
“Our journey was to the Elafitski Otici… a small archipelago of 13 islands in the Adriatic Sea that protects Croatia…”
“I’ve often seen people pack in too much when planning an overseas trip… Eventually, though, we realized our trip would be a lot more fun if we just slowed down.”
“My surprise this time was rooted in how to understand (and use) a somewhat bewildering array of options.“
“I was amazed to taste such a variety of consistency, flavor, and even color…”
“Remembering my day wandering solo in Arashiyama, now makes me smile all over again.“
“It was the kind of splendid, magical time that makes solo discovery worth every moment of uncertainty.”
“Very few foreigners go to this unpretentious, tranquil town… It felt very off-the-beaten-track to us.”
“His way of getting us going after stops along the way was this lovely phrase: “Ikimasho!” (Japanese for ‘Let’s go!’)”
