June 6 and 7 is International Glamping Weekend. No Kidding! There’s a website and everything! The word “glamping” is one of the newest additions to The Oxford English Dictionary, and…
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What will they think of next? I recently polled some of my WOWees inquire about their favorite “stuff” that they never travel without. Got some great ideas. But first…
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Ouch! I’m injured and it hurts to type. How did I injure myself, you may ask? I wrote about it in my blog of two weeks ago, chronicling a…
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I really dislike tourists. No – that’s not entirely accurate. But I hate the impact that tourists – disgorging from cruise ships and fleets of air-conditioned motor coaches – have…
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I confess. I am a bonefide snob. A travel snob. A corporate client recently chose a major European city for his incentive program. I’d given him Cuba … where I…
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(No) cool wind in my hair… I was in the desert but this was not a highway – rather a dusty road with a rutted surface like a washboard. But…
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If you’ve been following my blog for any length of time, you are familiar with my fascination and appreciation for the exotic, unusual and undiscovered destinations. As our wondrous world…
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It was the dead of a nearly moonless night when we left our hotel . . . … to catch the 5:30 AM ferry from Bagan to Mandalay. Yesterday, I…
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Got to thinking … if I could choose only one place to go (no issues with money, time, etc.) … where in the world would I go? I decided it…
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Around this time of year, I always recall a pumpkin pie memory. In December of 1978 I was staying with a bunch of “hippie backpackers” at the Isra Guesthouse in…
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For the past 30+ years, I’ve happily sat through countless presentations with visitor’s bureaus, hotels, tour companies, airlines, etc. who regularly schedule meetings with me and my team to exclaim the…
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Every week, come Wednesday or Thursday, that little voice begins asking, “What are you going to write about for Friday’s blog post?” There was no question that this week’s post…
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It happened. It finally happened! The announcement I’d long anticipated. Late. Actually, a couple of decades overdue. You’ve certainly heard the news by now . . . in an epic…
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Einstein said that time is an illusion… (but I’m guessing he never struggled through Daylight Savings Time.) I have been wondering all week, “How is it that one hour is…
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I’m two days shy of my sixtieth birthday. Conventional thinking would suggest that I’m past my prime and that I’m on the downhill slide. Not so. I’m happier, healthier, more fulfilled…
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