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Five lessons on travel and writing

I recently attended two conferences – one devoted to career breaks and extended travel and the other one a writer’s conference. Two different meetings, and yet there were striking similarities in what I took away from the events. So here are five lessons learned about travel and writing from two September conferences.

September 29, 2010 Riel musings 4 Comments

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"We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next, to find ourselves...And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again - to slow time down and be taken in, and fall in love once more."


- Pico Iyer

Meet Bob Riel



Bob Riel is a writer and a traveler. Go here to read more about Bob, his work and the Travels in the Riel World blog.

Great American Road Trips


Part of my article series on themed road trips:

• A road trip through literary New England
• Journey into the roots of American music
• The ultimate baseball road trip
• Pizzas of America road trip
• Volcanic tour of the Pacific Northwest
• Atomic tourism: Trip through Cold War history
• Stargazing the Southwest
• A presidential tour of Virginia

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Two Laps Around the World



My travel memoir - Two Laps Around the World: Tales and Insights from a Life Sabbatical - is about two round-the-world journeys with my wife.