TravelPast50 Year in Review 2018: Art and Adventure
2018 was the Year of Art and Adventure, new places, new activities, wildly crealtive people, more time back home, and some separate trips for Tom and Kris.
2018 Holiday Gift Guide for Travelers and Other People on the Move
Our holiday gift guide works for armchair travelers, road trippers, daydreamers and jetsetters. Good gift ideas wherever you are, however you travel. Even better if you like to give and receive books.
ScholarTrips: Encouraging Travel Abroad
Returning to Philbeach Gardens in London's Earl's Court: my go-to neighborhood since living there during study abroad programs in London. "Have you traveled outside the United States in the last 21 days?” [...]
The Year in Press Releases: What we didn’t write about in 2017
This is how travelers 50+ hear best. Travel blogging was initially an enjoyable piece of our traveling lifestyle, sharing photos and stories about what we were seeing and doing. Naturally, we started to [...]
Inventory of Books and Beds 2017
El Ateneo Bookstore in Buenos Aires I started an annual inventory of books and bed a couple years ago to keep track of where I’ve been and what I’ve been reading. Now this [...]
Adventure Travel Trends: Our evolving travel style confirmed by research
The more we travel, the more we seem to arrange our trips around adventure travel–itineraries with activities leading us into wilderness or protected areas and connecting with local communities. We’ve morphed into more active travelers [...]
Our First Bicycle Tour: Brittany Backroads
Cycling Brittany backroads includes many pastoral views like this. Note: In May, we took a week-long bicycling trip around the northern part of Brittany, France. We’d never done anything like this before; our [...]
Our Best Overall Travel Tips: Your Checklist for Happy Travels
Our travel tips today are different from our tips three years ago. Products change, we change, and our style of travel is constantly evolving as we vary between adventure travel, house-sitting, road trips, tours, or [...]
2016 Books and Beds
Jackson Street Booksellers, Omaha In this second annual round-up of the books I’ve read and the beds I’ve slept in, I gotta admit I’m cutting corners on the reading list. Every year, I [...]
Standing in Place: Back Home from Travel
Election day with the Perfect Kid. We live in opposite corners of the same building. Coincidence? For more than six years, we’ve been ‘location independent,’ traveling constantly all over the world, without a [...]