“Travel is glamorous but only in retrospect” says Paul Theroux. I would change this slightly to say that travel is glamorous but only when told later in a story. This past New Year’s Eve I was at the Eiffel Tower with a friend, Ruth, who is my age. She had journeyed all the way from [...]
”For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” Robert Louis Stevenson This summer I joined a “Scottish Odyssey” organized by Gillian Schoemaker, a native of Scotland who lives now in Pennsylvania. I had travelled with her and 12 others to Egypt [...]
“There is no god but Allah, and Mohammed is His Prophet”—prayed daily by Muslims In December 2010 I was in Egypt. I was met at the Cairo airport by a driver who was to take me to Sekem – a thriving, sustainable community created out of the desert in 1977. The man’s [...]
I returned last week from a trip to San Francisco. I was inspired to go by a new poet-friend, Bonnie, who told me that she has visited this beautiful city upwards of 20 times. She likes to travel here by herself even though she has oodles of friends that would accompany her, no problem, plus [...]
There is a difference of 16 hours between Japan and Vancouver but I experienced little jet lag when I returned home to Canada on the 10th of May. Perhaps this was because my mind was occupied with sifting through my many travel experiences and there was no room for the lethargy that usually accompanies such [...]
This past summer I visited Europe for 6 weeks. I travelled first to Germany where I stayed in Bamberg with old friends, Sarah and Lutz Bellingrath. The next two weeks were with a Cosmos bus tour where I visited Central Europe and had a taste (one day only!) of such cities as Berlin, Warsaw, Krakow, [...]
