QUESTION: What are your top five travel tips for new travelers before they start a trip? I’m putting my own spin on this and I’m going to append “with kids” to this question, since that was obviously a huge focus for us in our recent travels and the majority of questions I get about our …
Day 4 of the BootsnAll Travel Challenge asked us to tell about a time when we got information from a local, and also encouraged us to pose as a tourist in our town and ask 5 strangers about things to do and then go do it. There is no equivalent to experiencing a new city …
Day 3: What has long term travel taught you? I could fill a book with all the things that occurred to me as we circumnavigated the globe last year, and in other trips with Jon or our children. Although many of these are not profound or deeply introspective, they are just a few of the …
Highway to Home -
I sit silently, caccooned in a symphony of thought, as we speed northward along the Pan American highway, away from...
Border Crossing in Central America -
Our "end game" as I have been calling it, has been kind of a moving target, tough to pin down....
San Pedro De Atacama: A land of wonder and extremes -
As I look out over the desolate dry landscape of the Atacama with it's valleys, canyons, huge sand dunes, and...