This is an entry in the We Said Go Travel Writing Contest written by Ashley Day from America. Thanks for your entry Ashley! When I looked up from my last ham and cheese breakfast sandwich and saw a serious man in business clothes, I knew it was our guide—not because he was what I expected … Continued
This is an entry in the We Said Go Travel Writing Contest written by Ashley Tessarolo from America. Thanks for your entry Ashley! On that New Year’s Eve, I climbed the winding stone stairs to my friends’ French apartment in a building older than America. I felt like an oversized Alice in Wonderland as I … Continued
This is an entry in the We Said Go Travel Writing Contest written by Wayne and Pat Dunlap from America. Thanks for your entry Wayne and Pat! What is your description of romantic paradise? How about sitting on a picturesque powdery white sandy beach under a thatch beach palapa sipping a margarita or cerveza (beer) … Continued
This is an entry in the We Said Go Travel Writing Contest written by Johnna Crider from America. Thanks for your entry Johnna! It’s a cool late summer morning; cool meaning it’s just under ninety degrees, and the sun has yet to rise. All is silent as the sky begins to glow with the birth … Continued
This is an entry in the We Said Go Travel Writing Contest written by Kristin Daemon from America. Thanks for your entry Kristen! This was not the fancy tourist bus station. There was nothing fancy or even civilized about this bus station in Marrakech and mine was the lightest, blondest head in the place. Even … Continued
This is an entry in the We Said Go Travel Writing Contest written by Arjun Malhotra from England. Thanks for your entry Arjun! Stepping out of the bus station, dazed by streaked sunlight and compressed heat, brings that familiar “pin-prick” feeling behind my navel of unexpectedness. I have come for Borobudur; an ancient Buddhist temple; … Continued
Thank you to Nora, The Professional Hobo for including us in her series: “A Week in the Life!” We are honored to be nomads on her site. We wrote about a week when we were leaving Thailand after a month and beginning our three month stay in India. The week included a broken bus, a … Continued
This is an entry in the We Said Go Travel Writing Contest written by Michael Thal from America. Thanks for your entry Michael! My daughters rested after our eight-hour trip. I stood in awe at the grandeur before me. Nature had taken the flat Utah desert as her canvas. With sand, water, and an abundance … Continued
This is an entry in the We Said Go Travel Writing Contest written by Arjun Karun from India. Thanks for your entry Arjun! Multitudes throng the seaside pathways left moist by the unquiet growling of the Arabian Sea. Peeping into the sea, proudly stands on the shores Chinese fishing nets, memoirs of city’s glorious past. … Continued
This is an entry in the We Said Go Travel Writing Contest written by Janet Myers from The United Kingdom. Thanks for your entry Janet! Chasing the northern lights – With a thirty or something year old son By now we had come to the conclusion that the northern lights are by no means a … Continued