Read these. Edited by Betsy Blondin, without whom none of these roads would have been traveled.
Slow Travel Finds Sardines on the Beach in Crucita
Early October, another beautiful morning at our tranquil Ecuadorian beach house. But our view of the consistently blue Pacific had changed. Large...
Slow Travel #59, A Birthday to Remember
On November 17, 2012, I turned 59. It was a beautiful morning in Cuenca, Ecuador. We had a simple breakfast, then around ten took the 25-cent bus...
A Mindful Seven Months of Slow Travel
We spent February in Key West, Florida, a place full of history and interesting people. Then we left the country for arty San Miguel de Allende,...
Key West
After six weeks in Sarasota, Florida, enjoying the Holidays with family and friends, the next road led us 376 miles to Key West, Florida. Our stay...
Venice, Louisiana, at the end of the road
Far from the French Quarter, where the road south ends, we found Venice, Louisiana, and one of those unexpected experiences with great food and...
Woman Brutalized by Barbary Ape (Husband Watched)
The Rock of Gibraltar. One minute you are driving in Spain and the next, passing through British customs. The history is long and storied, and...
The Day, The Place, One Man’s Peace at The End of the Pier
Some days you leave the house for a seemingly normal outing and life confronts you with the profound and wonderful where you least expect it. That's...
Montgomery, Alabama
On the next road from Washington, D.C., to New Orleans — leading through Montgomery, Alabama — we relived the history that had brought America a...
The Disappeared in Argentina
By Betsy Blondin Siempre con las madresAlways with the mothers Every Thursday afternoon for more than 30 years, mothers and grandmothers of "the...
Not in America
Never in America should a city like Flint, Michigan, be left to the kind of ruin we have witnessed. Even if one were to view it only from the narrow...
Pigskin Sunday
We had been house- and pet-sitting at a beautiful cabin in Western North Carolina for six weeks. When we arrived, the household included two dogs,...