Tonga: the Friendly Islands (Image by Dean Moriarty on Pixabay)
Category: General Travel Advice
Stay-at-Home Traveler: Destination Rankings, Vol. II – Sri Lanka
#5 in my wanna-go destination rankings is Sri Lanka. Explore this beautiful country!
Stay-at-Home Traveler: Destination Rankings, Vol. I
In this series, I will be sharing my personal top 10 countries I’d most like to visit. This list is ever-changing, but some of these places have been on my mind for a long time. For me, every country has something worth visiting, but I had to narrow it down. I hope they will interest…
Armchair Rebellion from a Stay-At-Home Traveler
Returning from a neighborhood walk the other day, I made a decision. It’s time to travel again! No, not the kind that requires a plane ticket or passport. I’m talking about getting my travel fix the way I did before I started globetrotting: through maps, pictures, and postage stamps. Bonus points for everything being readily…
Travel Mishaps
Air traffic control tower at tiny Manhattan, Kansas airport
The Top Takeaways from the DC Travel and Adventure Show
Saint Patrick’s Day weekend featured another two-day travel show, this time right here in my neck of the woods. How could I be any luckier? The Travel & Adventure Show returned to the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC for a fifteenth year. I’d heard of this one, but had never been before….
Attending a Travel Show for the First Time
Every year in the nation’s largest city, delegations from around the world gather to dazzle us with dreamy offerings from every corner of the globe. Various tourist bureaus, travel industry businesses, journalist and speakers converge for one weekend dedicated to that favorite fancy. I’m talking about the New York Times Travel Show. This year is…
Points and Miles and a Weekend in Chicago (Not Chicago)
Less than a week after returning from a 5-day family visit to Kansas, I was heading back to the Central Time Zone for the third time within a 30-day period. My life had been accelerated since Austin and just a week after that I learned about another conference that would add to the life-changing dynamic…
Making Mistakes on the Road
Being afraid of all the ways something can go wrong is what prevents some people from traveling, or even taking a chance on other aspects of their lives. To be sure, things can and sometimes do go wrong, but that doesn’t have to break your trip experience. In fact, many of the unexpected things or…
