Shortly after arriving in Belize City I discovered that the town held few charms. Very few, to be honest. Despite its quaint clapboard houses and tropically colonial British architecture, this city on the shores of the Caribbean was replete with unemployed young men who had little to do in life except prey on the unwary … Continued
I’m in the travel business, right? I’m also a bright cookie (I know this because my mother’s been telling me that my whole life). So, really, WTF happened that I found myself on the phone with Delta, ten days before leaving for Bali, saying: “What do you mean we have a ten-hour layover in Tokyo? … Continued
Hitchhiking in North America has now become a forgotten art, mostly due to our fears and insecurities. It is no longer fashionable to trust strangers. Over time, though, I have developed hitching into a high, if personal, method of travel. Many songs have been written about thumbing the highway, but the sensations and benefits of … Continued
In the fall of 1989 I made a weekend trip with a friend to Fisher’s Island, NY. I was looking for a place to visit for a one night jaunt, near enough to Poughkeepsie NY to facilitate a drive from Montreal to that unremarkable town, and then continue the same day to our final destination. … Continued
We live in Mexico, so you might ask why we choose to travel in Mexico. Well, we don’t always. But sometimes it’s tough going anyplace else, because this is a fantastic and fascinating country! Last year we spent five wonderful months in Spain, Portugal, and Morocco; so when we started planning how to spend … Continued
Big Island, Hawaii We stopped at the hard, black lava rock road in my 4 wheel drive Tucson. While technically, my car was four wheel drive, it’s suspension was not high enough to handle most 4 wheel drive jobs on Big Island. After a few chunky clanks to the chassis, I backed out of the … Continued
NOTE: This work, written originally as fiction and published in a now-defunct North Carolina literary magazine, WORDS OF WISDOM, has been modified to better recreate our travelers’ reality at the time these events took place in 1979. A singular experience may give us a tantalizing glimpse of the Garden of Eden, but we are eventually … Continued
1) The Intihuatana – Notice the crack in the upper post from the Peruvian beer commercial film shoot a few years ago: Photo by Shawn Herring The first time I visited the famous “lost city” in 1978 my travel companions and I disembarked from a local train at a one-room rail depot in a … Continued
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In 1972 an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.2 struck Nicaragua and destroyed its capital city, Managua. The events following this devastating natural disaster contributed greatly to the Sandinista Revolution a few years later. I visited Nicaragua at the beginning of the civil war. My first inkling of trouble occurred at the border, where … Continued