In the Wake of Giants and The Sea of Cortez
by Cyndie Zikmund When John Steinbeck launched a boat expedition in March of 1940 with the purpose of cataloging creatures living in the Sea of Cortez, he didn’t think his…
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War Games and Winter in Finland’s Lapland: Arto Paasilinna’s The Year of the Hare
by Toma Kavonius Reading Arto Paasilinna’s The Year of the Hare once again made me yearn for a proper Finnish winter. I have always relished the Helsinki summer with its…
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Sylvia Plath and Winthrop-By-The-Sea
By Jeffery Round During her early years, Sylvia Plath lived in a number of places in Massachusetts. Of her youthful residences, none is more bleakly picturesque than Winthrop-By-The-Sea and the adjacent…
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Outdoor Adventure in Vermont
by Francis McGovern One of the biggest challenges throughout the year is getting the kids off the TV and video games and out into the great Outdoors. It’s fine if…
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Robert Louis Stevenson and Western Samoa
Western Samoa claims the largest proportion of full-blooded Polynesians in the world. At last count there were 162,000 of them, a collection of robust, often tattooed, sometimes obese, lava lava clad folks who live on the two main islands of Savai’i, and Upolu.
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The Freedom of the 3-Day Effect on a Maine Windjammer Cruise on the Angelique
by Francis McGovern All men will be sailors then until the sea shall free them. – Leonard Cohen, Suzanne Sometimes you need to get away and be free or try…
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The Yin & Yang of Travel: Traveling in Tandem
By Mark D. Walker Share our similarities, celebrate our differences. ― M. Scott Peck “Travel is like love, mostly because it’s a heightened state of awareness, in which we are…
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Cantarranas, Honduras, City of Murals
On a drive from Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras, through the damp, misty rainforest of La Tigra, I found my way to the outskirts of the small colonial city of…
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Chasing Melville Chasing a Whale
By Erin Levens Climbing roses and big puffs of hydrangea accent the houses along the cobblestone streets of Nantucket. An island of weathered buildings with starfish in the windows and…
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A Stay at The Algonquin Hotel
By Suzanne Kamata My daughter’s first question upon checking into the Algonquin Hotel near Times Square in New York City is “Do they have Wi-Fi here?” As for me, I…
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