Showing posts with label Grab Bag. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Grab Bag. Show all posts
November 26, 2013

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It's been 15 months since my last post on this travel blog, and I'm just checking in to let folks know that the blog is still on vac...
March 10, 2012

Power to transport

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I love when mid-afternoon sun floods through my living room bay windows, lighting my eclectic collection of colorful curios from around the...
January 24, 2012

My travel bucket list (and lots of links)

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I feel blessed to have seen much of the world. My store of travel memories is so rich that if my traveling days ended today I'd be conte...
January 19, 2012

Travel List Challenge challenged, or, how'd Anne Pippy Longstockin Lewis get into Mecca?

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Maybe you've seen the Travel List Challenge app on Facebook: 100 places deemed by the app's marketing team to be cool, important o...
January 05, 2012

Happy 2012, Ribbons of Highway

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Hard to believe I've been blogging here since 2004. Five hundred and fifty-two posts: hundreds of travel stories about scores of countri...
November 01, 2011

Talk about a captive audience

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I was dismayed to find, on a recent US Airways flight across the United States, that all the tray tables in economy had been turned into fly...
October 26, 2011

Makes me wonder how well the planes are maintained...

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I flew out of Boston's Logan Airport last weekend. The trip got off to an inauspicious start when I got into an elevator in Terminal B a...
October 25, 2011

Adam Belanger: He's going places

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My son Adam will graduate from college in May, and he's already begun his job search -- no flies on this kid. Allow me to hijack my blog...
September 28, 2011

Park it

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Wherever I travel, I seek out parks. They're places to rest between sightseeing sorties, eat the lunch food in your backpack, and, espec...
September 11, 2011

Remembering where we were

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On this 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks many of us will reflect on where we were as the horror of that day unfolded. In this e...
September 06, 2011

Milkin' it

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I know I've been milking this summer vacation thing. Gonna milk it a bit longer. Will be back with travel stories mid-September. The wea...
June 12, 2011

Global Voices: Bookmark this

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Dana's heading into the final weeks of her summer semester in Peru, and the group is scheduled to head to Puno for a few days of Lake T...
November 15, 2010

Ames Free Library book reading to celebrate NaNoWriMo

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If you're in the area, join me at 6:30 this Thursday evening, November 18, for a book reading at the Ames Free Library in Easton, Mas...
November 08, 2010

Flotsam, jetsam, seaglass and shards

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There's a mosaic in my future. All around my house, in glass vases, copper boxes and bowls that once belonged to Bedouins and Buddhist m...
October 06, 2010

Radio Easton: I've been podcast

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I was a recent guest on Radio Easton, an audio blog published by my friend, Bill Ames. Bill interviews folks from our little Boston-area bur...
August 23, 2010

Time travel: Free weekend on ancestry.com

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You might want to spend part of the upcoming Labor Day weekend traveling back in time: ancestry.com is offering a "Free Access Weekend...
July 10, 2010

Bella Tucker: please help

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This post has nothing to do with travel but everything to do with a journey, the long and difficult journey ahead for an 8-year-old girl nam...
July 09, 2010

10 things I will never do on vacation

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It's a phenomenon I think would make good fodder for some psychology student's doctoral thesis: why people on vacation do dangerous ...
July 02, 2010

Christo and crutches: A trip to the deck

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I took a little trip today -- from the kitchen, where I've pretty much been living for the past month, to the deck. (For those keeping ...
June 01, 2010

The longest trip...

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I apologize for not posting in a while. Last week I was running through the woods, caught a root, and came down hard and horrible on my left...