This is #244 of the Weekly WOW! blog … though as of late it hasn’t been a weekly publication. I decided to give myself a break at the beginning of…
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Wherever there’s Christmas, there are Christmas traditions. When I was a kid, we’d invite all the relatives from my mom’s side of the family to come over for a party…
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June 29, 2017 Yesterday was chemo day. It was (thankfully) another uneventful session without any negative effects. I swear they’ve been giving me sugar water! It’s quite possibly my last…
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I love a good idea. Especially when it’s a fresh re-think of an established, long-held – but not necessarily logical – concept or practice. For example . . . Check-in/check-out…
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Last month I embarked on a rather unusual journey: 1) It was a vacation – absolutely no hotel inspections were planned, and 2) it wasn’t an international trip for a…
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You may not believe this, but sometimes I just run out of ideas for this blog. So I went to my team for inspiration and they came up with a…
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I am on the email list for AFAR, a great travel magazine. I rarely have time to open and read it, but dare not unsubscribe, lest I miss something important….
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I’m writing a book about travel. Foreign travel. Transformational travel. Not about how to travel, or where. But why to travel. Far away. To weird places. The weirder, the better. I hope…
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Question: Can one go to Costa Rica (rich coast) and enjoy a non-coastal experience? Answer: Absolutely! I was fortunate to have received an invitation from Auberge Resorts – a…
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Ulysses, published in 1922 and considered to be one of the most important books ever written, is 265,000 words in 18 episodes. This blog about Ireland, now on Part 4,…
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I recently concluded an almost-two week journey around Ireland with a merry band of congenial WOWees (as I call my WOW! Travel Club travelers). The experience was remarkable for lots…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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I’ve been in this industry for a few decades now and stayed in countless hotels. In that time, I’ve lost countless “stuff.” Correction: I have left behind more items than I could…
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