Nicaragua y Guatemala y México
December 27-28, 2017 & January 1, 2018 Nicaragua’s history is ‘Too much tears and blood.’ So sayeth our guide on the bus ride through...
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...
Costa Rica & The Big Ditch
December 22-26, 2017 Costa Rica is divided in two parts. Not on a map it isn’t, but on a cruise it is. You cross the Gulf of Mexico from...
Cuba & Jamaica: Bring on the Dancing Girls! Bring on the Macaw!
December 17-20, 2017 Havana’s Tropicana was as close to Vegas as I’ll ever get. While it’s a bit tawdry today, it is a nostalgic reminder...
Passepartout Redux
What goes around the world comes around the world! I realized as I lay awake last night thinking about the blog (which hasn’t happened in...
Passepartout & PassepartoutPartTwo... We’re off...again!
Port of Miami, December 15, 2017 Okay, I was actually ‘off’ 6 months ago, but I’m off again with a photo re-cap of my 5 months at sea and...
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...
Just (some more of) the stats, ma’am...
West Newbury, Massachusetts, May 6 — A far less exotic dateline (sigh). At the ‘Captain’s Farewell’ ceremony, we were given these...
