one of the best! Always love Jon's posts about exotic travels. My wife lived there and visited and finds Philippines fascinating. The antics of tourism and identity mystify, but Jon portrays them with humor and empathy. Maybe Jon will travel to one of my places (Panama, Brazil, Central America) so I can validate his hilarious accounts. Keep it up Jon!
Sharing Jon thanks for your generous brilliant discourse. Loved it! Now in my paradise second home in Ko Yao Noi Thailand, a small island an hour away from Phuket. So peaceful here, no squalor. People do not have the western disease of greed. Giving is getting, magical. XOXO
wish I was there Actually I'm in Salamanca, carrying bags for my wife who's attending what I hope is her last professional conference. Wandering the alleyways of the 13th century university inspires awe in a 21st century emeritus prof. Love your blogs Jon and always look forward to your wry humor. Onward!
Love it!!! So happy to see you're still going hard at it after all these years Dr Jon! I really enjoy looking at the pictures with huge smiles on your face. Thanks for sharing Dr Jon. Cheers to future adventures!!!
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.
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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one of the best!
Always love Jon's posts about exotic travels. My wife lived there and visited and finds Philippines fascinating. The antics of tourism and identity mystify, but Jon portrays them with humor and empathy. Maybe Jon will travel to one of my places (Panama, Brazil, Central America) so I can validate his hilarious accounts. Keep it up Jon!