Christine, a Travelers’ Tales editorial assistant, and all over fun loving yet ambitious travel lover, has packed up her belongings in the office and is readying herself for her long awaited rtw trip. I really admire her vision of adventure—Christine has been saving all her bday, holiday and grandparent money since she was 16. And […]
» Read more...Day: July 5, 2002
Newsies, newsies, newsies
While we’re on the subject of newsletters — you want ’em, I got ’em! Sign up here for lots of great travel writing newsletters: BootsnAll.com: Newsletters that inspire travel (Daily Dose), inform on regional destinations (Regional), and offer practical and affordable resources for RTW trips (Round the World Ticket Watch, or cheap anytime travel (Cheap […]
» Read more...Don’t wait…the eloquent version
The Travelers’ Tales July newsletter is out, and Publihser James O’Reilly relates what I was talking about in “Indpendence Day” to travel: “One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world’s end somewhere…” Willa Cather wrote these words in […]
» Read more...Independence Day
Along the same songlines as the modern men that claim they shouldn’t do diddly for the women in their lives on Valentine’s Day…that it shouldn’t be just once a year, and that love is an every day gift….well, so I sing a similar song to the 4th. Every day is independence day, or can be […]
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