Portraits of travel from around the world

It was women who led me to travel.

First Sophie stayed on a kibbutz for a summer and then traveled to Jordan and around. But once Bertie Tomashevsky returned from Thailand, she showed me photos of 15 months of travel through Southeast Asia, China, and Japan, and the world really opened up.

Aim high, they said.

Everyone else was telling me, No!

Today’s Posting

Veintidós. To the Interior

I needed to venture beyond the safe confines of the Gringo trail. I had spent Christmas in Utila with an incongruous group of travelers and I was getting frustrated that the trip was turning more bar hop than adventure hop. A flamenco dancer from Amsterdam and a group of university students from Cork were my group then and we gathered nightly in the one or other of the two bars which had ‘Pirate’ in the name.