Highland roads... I just returned from a couple of weeks touring 30 castles in Scotland. It was sunny every day! The only bad part was the narrow roads and driving a stick shift...just as you experienced it. Except I had a bad knee and every time I used the clutch I was in great pain...and I had to use the clutch every time I approached a blind hill of curve. Could I please add your picture of the Oncoming Vehicles sign to my blog? I had the same question you did...what should I do.
Remembrance of Morocco 1970 One of my favorite places in the world. Magical time to share sometime. Next time spend time on the beach in Casablanca. It is a sand dune bckeded by a forest, just next to the mendina.
What a way to visit the world, through Jon's eyes and lenses! Thanks, Jon, for these entertaining blogs. Your stint in Bavaria coincides with my just finishing Dan Jones's Powers and Thrones, which ends the "new history of the middle ages" with the Reformation.
The loop through Morocco elicits Indiana Jones, as you aver, and also a study abroad trip I once thought about going on. What a great time int'l professors get to enjoy.
Brave to, during this Plague, travel through Prague. Wow, I love how you illustrated your travel philosophy. And how well you told that train incident. I gave up my world traveling life when I felt the pendulum of international acceptance swing back to nationalism. I would have surely shared the fate of the other traveler.
travel addiction as therapy Since the early sixties I have been addicted to travel. Whenever life became tiring I would instinctively think of a place to to escape to to explore. Now stuck, my instinct is trapped by the virus. Your spirit, humor and perfect observations are unequaled. Thanks for beings so courageous in these weird, challenged times.
Thanks for posting... I love Iceland. And thanks for the information about testing before returning to the States. I'm hoping I won't need this information when we return from Scotland in Sept.
Morocco Years ago I funded a professor's trip to Morocco, for her to set up a study abroad for Global Studies. Afterward she desisted because of the strain of travel and heat there. I forwarded this link to MIke Gorman, who spent a Fulbright tour in Tunis and loved N. Africa. I enjoyed and learned from this blog and always look forward to your next entry.
Jon, you need to stop following me around, and vice versa! I just spent a week in Panama peddling my new book, Modern Panama, in its Spanish version. Obviously saw lots of the city but also Colon also Fort San Lorenzo. nd Fort San Lorenzo. A factual note, three locks at either end of the canal (6 total) move the ships up and down.
Hope you can take a look at my new book and call to have a glass of wine one of these days. Felicidades!
echoes of Yerevan! Jon, what a coincidence--Rotary colleague Tim Hegstrom and I just returned from 5 days in Armenia, where we delivered laptops and projectors for Wired Int'l, an NGO that makes available basic health and hygiene instruction on the Internet. We didn't see all the places you did, since we attended Wired sessions every day. Did travel to Gyumri one day and enjoyed country views. Enjoy your blogs a lot and would like to share a glass of wine with you some day to get caught up. Anne and I are enjoying retirement and stay busy with lots of stuff. Cheers and thanks for the Yerevan blog.
I could read your travel blogs all day Always good to read of your travel exploits John. I still look forward to the day when we execute one of these excursions together. Tangiers?
Dodging Hurricane Lane After a truly ZEN week of tropical sunsets, raucous wedding antics and endless swimming and snorkeling, sadly, my last day in Kapalua was cut short at my kind of 'adventure' at the quiet, under-stated Napali Kai where the sunsets are stunning, the rooms comfortable with verandas that are designed to accentuate the amazing tropical views and invite charming furry friends (birds) who invite themselves to show up an hour or so before your morning coffee, with their sweet chirping chatter, looking for someone to share the stunning sunrise. While disappointing to leave a day ahead of schedule, expending my time there facing endless downpour, high winds and no chance of swimming or hiking - opted to take the saf3e road and, as advised by the experts, arrived some 5 hours before my outbound flight was scheduled to take off, narrowly escaping the first wave of hurricane winds and endless delays. It had been years since I traveled to Paradise, where I once traveled often for many events I managed for high tech companies, as well as trips with my family in my former life, so the trip was replete with happy memories and visits to former Aloha favorite haunts and many new adventures. Tango has been on the back burner and I always find it sweeter after a long hiatus, so I look forward to returning to 418 at Sharon's Milonga this coming Saturday night and then, unfortunately, missing Nancy and John's annual Tango extravaganza, as I booked the Tango on the Rocks Tango Festival for a marked change of pace in Boulder, that same weekend. Look forward to Tango'ing with you and your apparently renewed sense of Garden of Bears adventures in the Fall. SAFE travels and fun adventures to our Tango Hemingway. Abrasos, Sandi
Order I am so impressed with the sense of order and peace, despite the mission of the camp and the tight quarters. Bravissimo! AND bring on the Omega 3 amazing Salmon!
I officially started my travel addiction during a Fulbright year in Zimbabwe back in 1991. Since then I've had a number of visiting professor gigs in interesting places. In a good year I'm able to squeeze in two or three trips. Sometimes I feel like I could simply not return and spend the rest of my life living out of my suitcase.
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