Annual Travel Insurance Plans Cover Multiple Trips
Miami to MSP along the Florida coast, on our way back from Cuba. Note: This is part of a series of posts we’re writing about travel insurance. Especially among seniors, travel insurance is [...]
Our Best Travel Camera Equipment
Setting up at sunset at Half Dome at Yosemite National Park. People often ask, "What is the best travel camera?" The easy answer is the best travel camera is the one you [...]
The Travel Bags We Carry
Over the years, we've lugged bags of many different shapes and sizes. This is what we're currently carrying, and what we like. Mostly.
Our Favorite Blogs
Here's our list of our best and favorite travel blogs.
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 [...]
Our Gift Guide Part II: Books and Gems, Not Just for Travelers
I May I Might I Must If you will tell me why the fen appears impassable, I then will tell you why I think that I can get across it if I try. -Marianne Moore [...]
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 [...]
Three Expert Tips for Sustainable Travel
Lani and Paul with docent Ara Merjian visiting New York's Museum of Modern Art. Paul Bennett, like other subjects of Travel Past 50 interviews, has decades of travel experience and plenty of travel [...]
The Four Best Travel Shoes for Women
After six years, I've settled on the four types of shoes that suit me best on the road. My relationship with shoes was defined early on. My mother regularly reminded my sister and me not to skimp on shoes; cheap shoes would hurt and not last, she warned us.