I’m living through hour two of six at Lisbon Airport, hub of Air Portugal (TAP), waiting for a rebooked connecting … More
Category: Travel Writing
The Mangrove Mysteries
Since I’ve been in Naples for eight months already, several people have asked me how I like it. Yet after … More
From Pine to Palm
Gazing out over the steel grey, silent sky of Puget Sound, trapping fog between the Olympic and the Cascade Mountain … More
By Tube if not by Foot
London, June 30 Arriving back in London from where I started, after the trip around the UK, brought a beautiful … More
Into England
Leaving has an excitement all its own: a heightened energy awakens me to an attention to detail that I might … More
Purple fields of Persuasion
Indications that we were getting tired became obvious by this point; I chose for a quiet day when L. went … More
For the Love of Dogs
A trifecta of good travel includes the decisions of food, accommodations and wheels. How to eat, how to sleep, and … More
Stoned
Purely by coincidence, we visited King Arthur’s fabled Avalon on the 19th and then Stonehenge on the 20th, the two … More
Tea for Two
A 6-mile nature walk around the city, into the hills and across fields beckoned me the second day of our … More
A Good Bath
We met in the kitchen around 1 am for midnight snack intermission and spoke briefly about the next day’s itinerary. … More