We made it through another week of social distancing, stay-at-home decrees, and for some of you, home schooling. If you're still able to go to your workplac...

How are you? I know that most people are doing fine, but it doesn't mean that each person is doing well, and I don't want to ignore that. Within one's circl...

Whew! What a week! Unless you've been vacationing under a rock (on Mars, in which case you should have stayed there!), you know what's been happening here ...

Have you heard the list of measures you should take to prevent the spread of COVID-19? They include this: "avoid unnecessary travel". Say what?? First of a...

As you recall from last week's letter, I've been hanging with my kinfolk in Houston all week. It's been interesting...you may have heard about the enormous w...

As you read this I'm winging my way to see my family for the holidays...and by 'holidays' I mean the Christmas and New Year holidays - of 2019. Having spent...

I took a trip down memory lane this week. Rummaging through a closet, I opened a photo album that holds snapshots of several trips I took decades ago. That ...

I hope you had a wonderful week. I was in Charlotte at an annual travel advisor workshop that, for those who participate, has become synonymous with busines...

Mardi Gras celebrations - you either love 'em, or not. There's a third choice, though: you've never been - it's either simply of no interest to you; or it's ...

I absolutely LOVE packing my bags for a trip. Why? Because I'm going on a trip!! However, I hear that's not the case for everyone, and I am often asked by c...

Remember last week I told you about National Plan for Vacation Day? It's just around the corner - January 28th. At the bottom of the newsletter I've planted...

The new year has started with a 'bang!' and I'm lovin' it! Clearly, travel is big on everyone's mind - new goals set, resolutions made, sights set on broade...

As so often happens when I'm pulling my thoughts and notes together for this every week, I start off in one direction and get pulled in another. I'm okay wit...

We didn't have a white Christmas in my corner of Colorado, but we're having a white post-Christmas. Because most of my readers are staring down at least two ...

I returned to the US from overseas this past weekend, the last weekend before Christmas.  I expected it to be a travel nightmare: airplanes bulging at the se...

I'm still here in Mexico, enjoying the summer that seems to go on forever. Mornings are pleasantly cool and days are not sweltering, a decent mid-80s at most...

Madrid is a living history lesson. If high school history class was where you did your best sleeping, a visit to Madrid will make you regret what you missed...

I'm beginning a new series today, called 'Top Ten'. I'll compile these lists from time to time with input from many sources, including members of my travel n...

I'm on the road again as I write this. It's been a slow travel year for me, so I had to feed the craving. My choice is a small island at north latitude 17.74...

Many people's mental pictures of 'group travel': a tour bus of strangers thrust together, napping between stops, forced to dine with the pushy couple from th...