Wednesday, July 24, 04:00 Yes, it’s 4am. Yesterday I slept right up until my alarm went off at 7am. That was my first full night’s sleep of this trip. But today I’m up again in the middle of the night. Rather than lying in bed hoping to get back to sleep, I’m writing.
Monday, July 22, 19:00 No visit to Cape Town would be complete without heading to the Cape of Good Hope. That’s what we did today on a private tour with a charming and knowledgeable guide named Danny.
Saturday, July 20, 20:30 I love the ocean! The sound of the pounding surf, the immense energy of the waves, and the patterns of water undulating, crashing, and splashing, all delight me.
Wednesday, July 17, 16:25 We’re on our way! The first leg of our journey is a one-hour flight from GDL to MEX. There we will spend the night before continuing across the pond tomorrow.
One of the things that seemed completely remote and unlikely for me as a younger person was the idea of going on a safari. Safaris were exotic, expensive, and beyond my aspirations. As I’ve made travel a fundamental part of my life, the idea of going on an African safari went from being a dream…
I’m currently staying with my mom in central New Jersey. (But see the note below.) We have two family weddings. One was last weekend in north Jersey, and the other is this coming weekend in Connecticut. I couldn’t make a trip to the northeastern US without scheduling a day in New York to see a…
In May 2009 I wrote my first entry in what ultimately became this blog. Here’s a look back at 15 years of travel blogging.
There is a long list of great museums (The Louvre, the Prado, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Rijksmuseum, the British Museum, the Vatican Museum, the Hermitage, and the Smithsonian, to name a few) that travelers, and even most non-travelers, know about. Many are destinations in and of themselves, reasons to visit the city where…
My time in New Zealand finished with a few days at the Bay of Islands. Now I am in my room at the Novotel Auckland Airport, awaiting the first of my four flights home (AKL — NAD — LAX — MEX — GDL). Here is a rundown of the last few days.
We had three nights in Queenstown, which was more than enough time to explore the city (or town). It’s really nothing special. It’s a town filled with upscale shopping and a wide range of eateries and drinkeries. It reminded me of some of the ski resort towns I’ve been to, like Whistler or Vail. But like…
Lack of time and lack of connectivity have made it impossible to blog about Otago (the province where I’ve been in southern New Zealand the last three days). And to be honest, there’s not much to write about. This is by far the most beautiful part of New Zealand, and the pictures tell the story…
We only spent two nights in Christchurch, just enough to get a small flavor of this charming city. We’re now on the bus heading out of Christchurch, on our way to Dunedin. Christchurch is very walkable, so I walked a lot. I spent a lot of time in the beautiful Botanic Gardens and I visited…
