In early January 2020 I booked a tour to Jordan, Israel, and Palestine for October and November of that year. I postponed the trip last summer, scheduling it instead for October and November 2021. Then, this week, I decided to postpone it again. I’ve rebooked for February and March of 2022.
Early last year, before the global pandemic put the kibosh on the trips I was going to take, I was lucky to do some traveling. I have officially postponed my trip to the Middle East until the fall of 2021, and I’m about 50–50 on whether to postpone further. I could just skip adding any…
After a promising start, 2020 turned out to be a bust for travel. In January I took a three-day trip to see the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve in eastern Michoacán, with two nights in Morelia and a stop in Pátzcuaro on the way home. And in February I had the chance to visit Cuba with…
Friday, 9:00 am I have some catching up to do. Sorry I haven’t had a chance to blog since Wednesday morning, but we’ve been on the go a lot and it’s been exhausting. Today is our last day in Havana, and it’s a free day. Unfortunately, the weather has turned. It’s rainy and blustery. My plan…
Wednesday, 9:00 am The answer to this question, posed last night by my friend Cathy, is below. But before I write about the really important stuff, here’s a rundown of yesterday’s sightseeing. Market Our first stop yesterday morning was at a market where residents shopped for meat and produce. While prices were low by US standards, Felix…
Tuesday, 8:00 am Tour Yesterday part-bus and part-walking tour made for an excellent first day in Havana. Our guide, Felix, is a fount of information. So much information, in fact, that, interesting as it was, sometimes I just had to tune it out and enjoy what I was seeing.
Monday, 8:00 am I started out planning this trip to Cuba feeling excited. It always seemed like one of those forbidden, exotic places I’d never get to visit. So when I learned about this tour, I jumped on the opportunity. And I’ve rarely experienced the kind of thrilled anticipation about a trip as I felt about…
Just a week from tomorrow I’ll be on my way to Cuba! On my first trip to Europe in 1989 I went to Hungary, which was still behind the Iron Curtain. This trip feels like that.
I’m enjoying the discovery of all the natural and human-made beauty that Mexico reveals. Earlier this week I took a three-day trip to the state of Michoacán to do just that. I signed up for this tour last fall, and there were ten of us, plus the drivers/guides, in a van and a Jeep.
If I had to pick my two favorite things to discover when I travel, it would be beauty and history. Though I’d give the edge to natural beauty over urban beauty, I’m happy to have ended this trip in some of the pretty urban landscapes I’ve seen anywhere: Torun and Gdansk. (Properly I’d write Toruń…
Note: I began writing this post while I was traveling in Poland in April 2019. I didn’t finish during the trip, and have finally completed writing about these heroes now in July. Most of my research comes from Wikipedia.
