Today I'm hunkered down at home, waiting for Hurricane Sandy to hit, but a week ago I was with friends in Genova, eating the best pesto I've ever eaten in my life.  I'd gone to Genova for the Travel Blogger Elevator 2012 conference where I spoke on my blog.  I'd saved a … [Read more...]

Yesterday at an airport in Paris I heard an employee inform a traveler that she needed to take the next shadow.  "To get to Terminal 1, you must take the shadow."  It took me a moment to grasp what she was saying.  Clearly you must take a shuttle, but I prefer the … [Read more...]

This journal was a gift from my class of writers and wanderers.  They designed it and each wrote something as a rembrance.  I filled this journal in Morocco.  I think out of all the journals I've ever had this is probably my favorite because so much went into the … [Read more...]

 These are all images of women in Morocco, taken in 2010. … [Read more...]

Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places." --Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities … [Read more...]