Here are the craziest things seen from an airplane window: Thunder/Lighting Storm in Southwest USA – We navigated around the storm, but still got quite the show for about 15 minutes. It was beautiful (and a little bumpy). Mt. Everest – My first view of the Himalaya mountain range was Mt.…
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Peru & Bolivia
Travel Blog of Peru & Bolivia 2016
Dirk
Dirk – ‘d&rk (noun) : a long straight-bladed dagger When I was a wee bonnie lassie, I met a Highlander on the Isle of Skye. He was dressed in full Scottish regalia. He caught me glancing at the handle of his dirk, so he brought it out to show me. He…
Moments in Time
I wish I could say that travel was all about the places you go, checking destinations off a list. But it’s not quite so easy. It’s also about when you were there. Places are ever-changing. They can be destroyed by natural disasters or war, evolve with a regime change, or even by…
Hallo, God?
Outside St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna, an older man dressed in a pristine white robe was preaching to the world. He would dance around the pigeons and pick up a phone – just a red receiver with a long cord, not connected to anything – and shout into it “Hallo?!…
Dominican Republic
Unattended Baggage
I was traveling back from Australia with about half of my possessions (2 large suitcases full of clothes), including a large photo I’d had custom framed for a friend’s wedding. I was unable to check it, but VirginAustralia made me pay to get it bubble-wrapped with such intensity that I…
Idaho
NASA Travel Posters
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory just released a series of vintage travel posters, called Visions of the Future, designed by visual strategists at JPL. The excellent graphic designs feature some recent advancements in space, complete with clever taglines. They advertise destinations into your imagination and tantalize us with a future of possible space travel.…
Surviving Long Flights
For those of us who don’t travel full-time, our vacations are sandwiched between two long flights and we don’t have the time to recover from jet lag. Here are some lessons I’ve learned along the way to help ease the pain of those long, international flights: Drink Water Yea, everyone’s…