Posts Tagged ‘all about travel’
Literary inspirations to travel
I was intrigued by a recent story in the NY Times about literature that inspires people to travel. The newspaper polled authors for titles that have aroused their wanderlust. It got me to thinking about books I’ve read that fit into that category. Not travel narratives, for they are meant to invoke dreams of the road, but other literature that makes one want to [...]
Easter Island journeys
There is something both enchanting and sad about the ruins of lost cultures and cities. Macchu Picchu in Peru, the temples of Angkor in Cambodia, the city of Ephesus in Turkey. But even as we struggle to understand how these societies decayed with such finality after reaching such heights of achievement, it’s still hard not to marvel at these monuments [...]
Expats drawn to Mexico
Anyone who hasn’t been asleep or on a silent retreat for the past month hasn’t been able to avoid the protests and debates over the immigration issue in the U.S., particularly as it relates to immigration from Mexico. But what is less talked about is traffic that goes in the other direction. Mexico has long been a [...]
‘Road Trip USA’
Ah, the enchantment of the American road. Rolf Potts uses his Yahoo travel column this week to interview Jamie Jensen, author of Road Trip USA. Jensen discusses the attraction of this uniquely American journey: In Europe, you have towns and cities where people walk around; in America, we drive. It’s the difference between the passegiata [...]
Appreciating Cairo
The Middle East is an underappreciated travel destination. The region gets a bad reputation because of Islamic radicals and the Israeli-Palestinian issue, among other things, and those realities do have to be considered when planning a trip. But it’s also true that the people of the Middle East tend to be incredibly hospitable, the ancient [...]
Being a travel writer
Travel writer Rolf Potts has for several years now been running monthly interviews with fellow writers on his website. This month’s segment is with Amanda Jones. A sample: What is the biggest reward of life as a travel writer? I am one of the richest people I know in experience (with the exception of my [...]
A new life in Morocco
“It’s my duty to give my children an interesting childhood.” So says Tahir Shah, a British writer who moved his wife and two children to Morocco, renovated a 10-bedroom mansion, began a new life, and then wrote a book (The Caliph’s House) about the whole experience. The New York Times profiled Shah and his new [...]
Travel in the Balkans
Nice trio of travel articles in the Sunday Washington Post about the Balkan countries of Croatia, Bosnia and Montenegro: But as striking as the panoramas are in this part of the world, there’s something deeper than aesthetics going on. Here, in the overlooked southeastern corner of Europe that once stood for brutal warfare but is [...]
Educational benefits of travel
Today’s NY Times has an excellent column by Nicholas Kristof about the educational benefits of travel. A few brief excerpts: Universities are – oh so slowly – recognizing that they need to prepare students to survive globalization. But most overseas studies programs are both too short and too tame. So here’s my proposal. Universities should grant [...]
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