Sam Chillingworth, a high school classmate, friend, and now featured writer in the inspiring book series Wake Up... Live the Life you Love, recently passed on a book he contributed to called Living in the Now. At the time, I had just returned from a two-month trip to the ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Living in the Now: Travel gratitude
Sam Chillingworth, a high school classmate, friend, and now featured writer in the inspiring book series Wake Up... Live the Life you Love, recently passed on a book he contributed to called Living in the Now. At the time, I had just returned from a two-month trip to the ...Greyhound travel: The imperfect lover. Reality, the Twilight Zone and being jilted
I'm fond of Greyhound bus travel. I like the idea of humanity rolling along on a highway. I like bus people. As one bus ticket seller once told me at the station in Columbus, Ohio as she surveyed the milling about passengers in the waiting area, "If you're hard up and you ...East of Africa: the Road to Tuléar
I sneak a glance at the side-view mirror to try and catch a reflection of my face; I'm trying hard to look at ease, but my tight grip on the door handle suggests otherwise. It certainly isn't the worst road I've been on in Africa, but it seems that our driver is intent on ...Bowermaster's Adventures -- Live from Antarctica: part 5
I spent part of this early Antarctic morning on the back deck of the ship reading a summary of the past eleven day's events in Copenhagen, a long story downloaded at very slow rate from the New York Times. Between readings I looked up, to remind myself where I was, ...What ever happened to the missing 22-year-old American teacher in Germany?
Reading that Laura Dekker has been found safe and sound in St. Maartin made me think of Devon Hollahan, the American teacher living in Prague who disappeared after a Portugal and the Man concert in Frankfurt, Germany. When his friend's back was turned, Hollahan went ...10 ways to not break your travel resolutions
You've made your travel resolutions, but how do you keep them? We all know the resolution drill. Sometime around the end of December, in the glow of holiday cheer when all things seem possible, we make a list of how we'll improve. As travelers, perhaps we leaf through a copy ...Most unsual way to go to Las Vegas: The Flying Elvi
At Fells Point, Maryland ghosts reside year-round
Even though it's almost Christmas, and Halloween is long gone, it's not the end of haunted travel. Fells Point, Maryland is one of those towns where ghosts and their stories don't go on vacation until the next season of fright delight. In Fells Point, the ghosts are woven ...Let's Make a Deal: Another place to win a trip
In recent years, winning a Showcase Showdown on the Price is Right, and the once in awhile trip that appears on the Wheel of Fortune's roulette wheel have been the two main ways to snag a travel experience on someone else's dime. There is another option where trips are ...5 ways to cure your travel hangover
Travel hangover (NOUN): the sad feeling you have upon returning home from an inspiring trip, otherwise known as the back-home blues or a hangover without the alcohol
We've all had it, and there's no easy cure for it either. No matter how eager you are to return home from ...Bowermaster's Adventures -- Live from Antarctica: part 4
WHITE THUNDER, NEKO HARBOUR, ANTARCTICA, DAY 4
Sitting atop a bared brown rock on top of a thousand-foot hill looking out over a relatively ice-free harbor – Neko, one of the most beautiful along the Peninsula, though even as I write that I am reminded of how ...Living in the Now: Following the 80/20 Travel Rule
Sam Chillingworth, a high school classmate, friend, and now featured writer in the inspiring book series Wake Up... Live the Life you Love, recently passed on a book he contributed to called Living in the Now. At the time, I had just returned from a two-month trip to the ...Living in the Now: Travel in 4D
Sam Chillingworth, a high school classmate, friend, and now featured writer in the inspiring book series Wake Up... Live the Life you Love, recently passed on a book he contributed to called Living in the Now. At the time, I had just returned from a two-month trip to the ...Tourists get unexpected breakfast buffet with Obama at the White House
Perhaps you read about the tourist couple who recently were ushered into a White House breakfast buffet with President and Michelle Obama even though they did not have an invitation. All Harvey and Paula Darden planned on doing when they showed up at the White House was take ...Santa crawl around the world: Ho! Ho! Ho! from Gadling to you
Last Saturday night, Times Square was literally a Santa free for all. I first noticed the Santa madness as I approached from the direction of the Empire State Building while walking along Broadway. Along the way, a group of five Santas passed me. Then another group of ...Bowermaster's Adventures -- Live from Antarctica: part 3
Tabular Heaven, Antarctica, Day 3
Every place along the Antarctic Peninsula tends to be my favorite. Bailey Head. Neko Harbor. Paradise Bay. Cuverville. The Lemaire Channel. The Grand Didier Channel. Crystal Sound. The Fish Island Group. Marguerite Bay. And on and on ...Bowermaster's Adventures -- Live from Antarctica: part 2
My first footsteps on Terra Antarctic this season were taken on Barrientos Island, one of the tiny Aitcho Island group, part of the South Shetlands, still one hundred miles off the continent. (It was just twenty miles from here, on King George Island, that we dropped ...The music beat in Dakar: Another version of West Africa
Grant's series "Into Dakar" brought back memories of my own travels there. For another intimate look into life in Dakar, check out, "The Songs of Senegal" a recent article in the New York Times. For me, reading the article was a trip back to an evening I spent in Farafenni, ...East of Africa: An island divided
We're at a small, roadside cafe - a room that consists of a few wooden planks slung together to form a humble dining area. Our server is a loud, jovial woman in her fifties and seems particularly excited to have a vazaa in her restaurant. She enthusiastically brings out ...Bowermaster's Adventures -- Live from Antarctica: part 1
The sky is gray, the air filled with a brisk wind and salt spray. A perfect day just south of Cape Horn. We are halfway across the Drake Passage and what is frequently called the windiest-place-on-earth is amazingly – and thankfully - calm. The gray/black seas are ...
