When I first started traveling, I wanted to grab as much of the world as possible and moved as fast as I could to fill my head with as many different cultures as time allowed. The major cities of Europe were assigned only three days each on my calendar, so great was my haste to [...]

Mixing a blog into the rest of life’s tasks sometimes can result in a pretty difficult time management issue. Travel bloggers are not only working, running errands and playing, we’re also, at least, every once in a while, traveling. When I was working on a recent blog post, I kept wishing my blog hadn’t laid [...]

Sometimes attempts to bridge the language gulf in other countries are quite funny. This hilarity often results from signs worded in English in non-English speaking lands, with phrases and sentences that not only don’t quite convey what they intend but veer off into a direction they clearly absolutely could not have wanted. I am finding [...]

Why don’t all airports have free internet access? I ask myself this as I do a search online to see if the airport where I’m going to be sitting for four hours and 45 minutes in between flights has free WiFi hotspots. I have discovered that it has zero. Of course. In most public places, [...]

Who are the people behind the home page? As travel bloggers we often have a real curiosity about our blogging buddies. Trying to get to know people through tweets filled with shortened URLs and hash tags leaves but a few letters available to actually convey thoughts. Blog comments offer a lot more room for socialization; [...]