“Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things – air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky – all things tending...
By the numbers, we were in Mexico 28 days, from January 16 – February 13. We traveled roughly 3568km (2,217miles). It looks something like this: The first week we rented a car to explore the Yucatan Peninsula. We drove from Cancun as far south as Chetumal and...
It was early October, another beautiful morning at our tranquil Ecuadorian beach house. But our view of the consistently blue Pacific had changed. Large barcos lined the horizon while small fishing boats dashed out, docked and then returned, overloaded with mounds...
#59-#17, Unforgettable numbers… On November 17, 2012, I turned 59. It was a beautiful morning during our slow travel experience in Cuenca, Ecuador, and the plan was a low-key celebration. We had a simple breakfast, then around 10 we took the 25-cent bus ride to...
Ours was an nontraditional Thanksgiving. After three months of slow travel in Ecuador, we prepared for a full day of travel and exploration and completed it with a remarkable dinner. We were scurrying around by 6:30 a.m. in our Cuenca, Ecuador apartment, where we had...
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, Mexico. In May we traveled to Baltimore to see our daughter, Stacy, receive her master’s degree from Johns Hopkins....
Heading southwest, the path from Dornoch through Dingwall, Gorstan, and Kyle of Lochalsh to the Isle of Skye; then Invergarry, Fort William, Glen Coe, Tyndrum, Crianlarich, Loch Lomond, and Luss to Glasgow was the third leg of our journey around Scotland. The...
After our week in Edinburgh, we rented a car for a road trip and while we had a general direction in mind, we basically went where the road took us and to places people told us not to miss. Stirling, St. Andrews, Dundee, through the Cairngorms National Park and the...
Our road trip ended in Glasgow, another enchanting city with a feel different from Edinburgh but with photo opps around every corner. Here we explored for two days before making our way to Newcastle, where we explored some more, returned the rental car, and took the...
Scotland… Bagpipes and kilts; green hills dissolving into the sea; William Wallace, Robert the Bruce, and Bonnie Prince Charlie; kings and queens and castles; heroes and legends — we saw and heard them or their echoes during our two-week explore of...
