Just when I thought that every good idea for my industry has already been thunk up – I met Leon. I love meeting nice people when I travel. Even better, I…
A small island with a huge legacy, ancestral homeland for millions of Americans and an atypical destination choice for a WOW! Travel Club adventure . . . Our destination was…
Last week’s blog began with an embarrassing admission of what happened on Day 1. I wrote about how my debacle had, by Day 3, become a distant memory, when I…
The month of March – and my journey to Baja – started badly. March 1st – Day 1: I missed my flight. This should not happen to a travel professional….
In 1985, a baby boy was born to a 15-year old unwed mother in a Nairobi slum called Kibera. It was a breach birth, during which she had received no…
Marilyn is off traveling the world again … this time on a WOW! Travel Club journey to Baja with a small group of adventurous travelers. They’re visiting the artsy town of Todos Santos, swimming…
I often report what it’s like to be me on a typical day – – – in Myanmar … or Baja … or Havana. But I don’t often share about…
In 1968, Sister Gertrude Mary displayed a map on the front wall of my 8th grade classroom at St. Stephen’s in Saginaw, Michigan. It was a map of Asia, with…
The humidity hit me with a blast as I stepped furtively from my air-conditioned hotel room into pre-dawn darkness, inching my way over the teak threshold so as not…
It’s a new year, which means it’s “prediction season” in the travel world. Around this time, all major magazines and travel publications publish their most popular trip projections for the year…
You can tell a lot about a person by asking, “What’s the first thing you pack in your suitcase?” My husband, Scott, inspired this blog post when I noticed his…
This week’s subject is one of my favorites. Ireland. The dilemma? What can I write that can possibly capture the essence, the spirit, the completely lovable, affable place that is…
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