Sometimes you have a perfect, an absolutely perfect and effortless trip somewhere. Sometimes you don’t. Sometimes it is a combination. And this one was a combination. I disembarked from a dream trip to Antarctica where we were able to do all eight excursions in four days with only one episode of vomiting on the Drake …
If you plan on going out in the zodiacs, and you are among photographers, bring a garden kneeling pad. Trust me, your knees will thank me later. Make sure your waterproof pants are waterproof. Really. Mine weren’t and it was challenging at times. Make sure your waterproof pants have very wide lower legs to fit …
Reconfirm with your credit card company – several times if need be, that you will be traveling. Even though you no longer have to notify your bank when you travel, confirm with themanyway. It may save your card getting confiscated by a bank (as happened to me in Argentina). Print out maps. Yeah I know, …
There are a number of things to consider and weigh as you plan your trip. Cost, convenience, spending more time doing more things, arranging housing and transport, what to see, do, and eat, and how to get to those places. It will always be a tradeoff. Cheap hotel? No problem. But it will probably not …
Back in the olden days, you know, well before the turn of the century, February 1977 to be exact, I had been studying architecture in Versailles, France (actually in one of the Palace buildings). It was an extraordinary program where we would have five weeks of class and then a break of between two and …
Years ago I was taking an epic Silk Road trip through the ‘Stans’, (Uzbekistan, Kirgizstan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan). Their Independence Days were not shared on the same day and somewhat spread out, but three of them were staggered over about 10 days. As it happened, we ended up celebrating each country’s holiday. When the …
I swear we three kids were all born in a car. Before I got out of middle school, we had driven through nearly all of the continental United States, from old Sturbridge Village Massachusetts where the horse pulling the carriage was named Penny, to Arizona where the horse I rode was named Copper, to California, …
