Guest blogger and husband Phil Deering shares his tips on how to plan for multiday, long (and successful) hikes. If you read my last post April 5th, you know I will not be among the group of friends that takes these trips!! More power to them. For each of the last five years, I’ve taken long, … More 10 Tips for Planning and Enjoying Long Hiking Trips with Friends
Guest blogger: Lily White, who just spent one month in Argentina. Thanks, sis! Sometime between the 1970s and 80s, hitchhiking fell out of fashion in the USA. Signs began popping-up along the entrance ramps to highways, and stories of dangerous hitchhikers circulated around our small Midwestern town. My mother and Aunt Dorothy cut cautionary articles … More Hay Maté!: The case for picking up hitchhikers in 2019
BAIT I have not traveled solo very much except for times related to work: many times in Bangkok for the weekend before or after work in Cambodia; once for a week going to Dalat, Vietnam from Cambodia for a brief return stint; once going in and out of Sierra Leone for my Masters in Public … More Traveling alone while female: I couldn’t have said it better (warning: bait and switch)
by Phil Deering This is chapter three of a three-part post. In Chapter 1, I told the story of a 2007 trek during which I encountered a one-room school in the highlands of the north of Vietnam. When I learned the school had been destroyed in a landslide I decided to raise the money and … More My Three Cups of Tea: Chapter 3 and end
In chapter one, guest blogger Phil Deering told the story of a 2007 trek during which he encountered a one-room school in the highlands of the north of Vietnam. When he learned the school had been destroyed in a landslide, he decided to raise the money and ensure it would be used for a new … More My Three Cups of Tea: chapter 2
Guest blogger Phil Deering [photo courtesy of Mike Holtby, 2008, Flower Hmong child doing homework] Three Cups of Tea tells the story of an elite mountain climber who, injured and lost, stumbles into a tiny village deep in the Hindu Kush. As he’s nursed back to health, the author sees girl children of the village … More My Three Cups of Tea: chapter 1
Today’s post is by guest blogger and friend Linda Feltes. Linda Feltes is a team leader with Xperitas (formerly Global citizens Network) She has ten years experience co-leading groups on cultural immersion travel trips in the US and abroad, in addition to her fulltime job with the State of Minnesota. I learn something new every time I leave … More Why Travel Outside the US (If you are an American)
Ed note: When we last left my sister, she was waiting 3 days in Accra for her passport to be returned, allowing her to proceed to the town where the drumming school is located. We will fast forward to the trip to Kopeyia. “But wait! What about the chicken?” you say. OK, here’s the chicken story. … More Lily goes to Ghana: part 2
Welcome our guest blogger this week, my sister Lily White. As she describes herself in a published short story-The Upholsterer’s Wife: “Lily White is a saxophone player and writer living in Brooklyn, New York. Born and raised in rural Illinois, she now divides her time between performing, playing with her daughter, and trying to find a legal … More Lily goes to Ghana: part 1 of a 2 part series
My guest blogger this week is Marco Polo. His travelogue, The Travels of Marco Polo, was written with the aid of romance novelist Rusticello of Pisa around 1300, while both were in prison in Genoa. It is thought to be the first western travel “blog”. The book belonged to my grandfather, so I have been … More Glamping a la Kublai Khan
Other states, other lives, other souls 