TRAVEL

Americans abroad are pretty much the people they are at home, often more so.   People don’t leave there little idiosyncrasies, quirks, prejudices and predispositions at the boarding gate at…

I can’t help but think of Steve Lumb every time I hear or read the word “Euro”.   Steve had the worst case of FECS (Foreign Exchange Conversion Stress) I…

Americans Abroad, No. 1 “Meestah, meestah, lady fall, . . . lady fall down!   Lady not get up!”     Just what I didn’t want to hear from the…

Is it possible that luggage can have feelings?   At least one suitcase does; one that has accumulated some “psychological baggage” along with a lot of dents, scrapes and frequent…

I spent my youth very close to my maternal grandmother .   Loreta was a saint to me, and to everyone who encountered her.   She was beautiful, loving, strong…

It seems paradoxical that the very cultural differences that form much of the attraction in romantic travel can become daunting when one considers actually living with them.   There arises…

Why it should be Gwen who came to mind at that moment is only known to the little psychic gremlins that delight in scrambling synapses.   But as I stood…

At LA International Airport I introduced myself to the group that I would be escorting through Europe for the next thirty days.   They were, as mostly they had come…

The girl on the cover of the Hawaiian Air inflight magazine wears an expression somewhere between Bernini’s St. Theresa in Ecstasy and the leer of a porn queen.   She…

The “call of the islands” is a compelling summons to the romantic soul.   There is no doubt in my mind than an aspect of this curious regard for traveling…