The more you travel, the more you appreciate how much we have in common with the rest of the world.  While superficially our differences might seem great, when you look beneath the surface, what most people want is to enjoy the love of family and friends,  and to feel that their presence in this life [...]

Just because I get most of my travel information online doesn’t eliminate my interest in getting information the old fashioned way – in print.  With so many newspaper travel sections (and newspapers entirely, for that matter) and magazines cutting back or closing, those print publications that I read and enjoy are becoming ever more precious [...]

Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time is a great adventure travel book, sure to delight the hearty adventurer as well as the arm chair traveler.  The title of the book comes from a Baltistan proverb:  The first time you share tea with a [...]

While I normally wait till after Thanksgiving to start featuring travel gifts for the holidays, it’s clear that this year people are shopping earlier, hoping to budget their gift expenditures over a few more pay checks.  And that seems like a very practical idea!
So, today I’m starting with my first holiday travel gift guide post. [...]

Anyone who travels knows that way too much time is spent waiting.  You have to wait at the airport, the train station, even for a taxi.  Sometimes it seems like all we do is hurry up so that we can wait some more.
How can you put all those precious waiting minutes to good use?  You [...]

Some things are just meant to go together:  Love and Marriage.  Horse and Carriage.  Tea and Sympathy.  Flight Attendants and Shopping.
I enjoy shopping on my layovers because it gives me an opportunity to find things that I wouldn’t find at home.  While I’m not an avant garde, cutting-edge dresser, it is nice to wear things [...]