Re-subscribe — or you won’t be onboard!
Happy New Year, everyone !! There are still folks out there (I just talked to one) who because they were with me on the first world...
Reflection
‘There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the...
Fan Mail & A Few Reflections
Decades ago I bought a set of coasters picturing old travel posters. I never thought I’d ever get to Luxor... Friends have suggested...
Patricia Highsmith
I already have one convert: Lou just acquired her first Highsmith novel, on my recommendation the other day, in ‘European Jaunts To Die...
European Jaunts To Die For
Indulge me, if you will... again. I am way behind in my self-indulgent re-cap of 5 months aboard the Sun... I had finished the Antipodes...
We interrupt this broadcast...
...to remember Anthony Bourdain, the extraordinarily open-minded, open-hearted, and intrepid traveler who also happened to be a chef. I...
What was your favorite?
This isn’t Name that Cloud, and it isn’t meant to be homework. But, as I begin to scroll through all my photos looking for my favorite...
Thank you, armchair travel companions!
‘… isn’t that what travel is? A chance to reckon with what you want to see versus what you really do see, a chance to rethink what you...
End Game... and some leftovers
‘An essential part of travel is the inevitable sense that wherever you’ve gotten to isn’t quite what you hoped it would be—just as you...
Greenwich — My last ‘Port of Call’ post
Greenwich, England, May 4 — I could have gone on a Viking excursion to the Tower of London or a jaunt out to Windsor Castle or trekked...
