Lori Hein: Ribbons of Highway

Her book, Ribbons of Highway: A Mother-Child Journey Across America, takes you around the U.S. Her blog takes you around the world. Lori Hein, who's written for scores of publications including the Boston Globe and Philadelphia Inquirer, hopes you enjoy these brief trips to far-flung places. Text & photos, all copyright Lori Hein, are available for reuse and publication for a modest fee. Contact Lori at www.LoriHein.com.

September 11, 2011

Remembering where we were

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

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...

July 19, 2011

The North End: Where the streets wear crowns

I haven't posted in a while. I actually haven't written much of anything in a while. I keep staring at the four calls for submission...

June 20, 2011

Machu Picchu: Baksheesh works here, too

Today, a guest blogger: Dana, who just had an amazing four-day, off-the-grid expedition out of Cusco with about a dozen others from her grou...

June 12, 2011

Global Voices: Bookmark this

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...

June 03, 2011

Fearless in Switzerland

A few days ago Dana and 15 of her friends had planned to jump off a cliff and paraglide over the Pacific Ocean in Miraflores , the upscale L...

May 18, 2011

Chihuly: From Brockton to Boston

If you live in the Boston area or plan to visit this spring or summer, put the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) on your don't-miss list. You...

April 25, 2011

Phone home? LOL IDTS

Dana's heading to Peru soon for six weeks of intensive Spanish language study. I've been trying to zero in on the best ways for us ...

April 10, 2011

Drums and guns

This month marks the 150th anniversary of the start of America's Civil War, and the media is milking that for all it's worth: books,...

March 28, 2011

Iguanarama

Mike and I were at the High Tide restaurant overlooking Cruz Bay on St. John enjoying a Virgin Islands Summer Ale ( concocted by two Unive...

March 21, 2011

St. Barts field trip

We're back from our Sea Dream cruise and, despite my fear of water, I had an excellent time. I did sleep with my life jacket on the flo...

March 11, 2011

Sea Dream: Paradise with a life preserver

(Warning: this post may make you jealous.) This weekend Mike and I jet off to St. Thomas in the US Virgin Islands, where we'll board the...

March 07, 2011

Orange world

"Ladies and gentlemen, please keep the limbs of your children out of the aisles." Flight attendants working Orlando-bound routes i...

February 18, 2011

Machu Picchu: Just a pile of rocks

Dana's heading to Peru and Bolivia this summer for a semester of intensive Spanish language study. She and the other students from her c...

February 09, 2011

Hipmunk: Sort by agony

We've been figuring out what to do with spring break week, the week for which I still hold four spots on Intrepid Travel's Egypt Ad...

February 02, 2011

Out of Egypt, again

I apologize for not posting in the past week or so. I've been glued to CNN and Al Jazeera. We have tickets to Egypt, and our intended de...

January 24, 2011

Vagabond sunbirds

We in New England, like folks in many parts of the US, are having a rough winter. Snow that won't quit and brutal, sub-zero temps. (...

January 14, 2011

Ten buck Chuck: He's so heavy

Meet Chuck. He lives on our living room floor but hails from Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. Had his immigration to this country not been b...

January 05, 2011

Under the cloak: Creepy crawlies

Wood carvings might be the world's most ubiquitous souvenir. You can find "traditional local crafts" made of wood nearly anyw...

December 28, 2010

Prospero ano y felicidad

I'm a few days late, but 'tis still the season, and time once again for the annual Jose Feliciano Christmas post: We were at the ai...

December 23, 2010

Lori the red-nosed tourist

Whether or not you celebrate it, Germany is a wonderful place to spend Christmas. Every city and town in the country is decked out in lights...

December 06, 2010

My beautiful, sad Varanasi mandala

Some places are more than places; they're experiences. Varanasi, India, a city on the Ganges where Hindus come to die so they can be cr...

Kate and William's Westminster wedding: Sightseeing tips

Next year on April 29 Prince William and Kate Middleton will tie the knot in London's Westminster Abbey , site of British royal wedding...

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