Yours truly with guard outside Palacio de Gobierno in Quito, Ecuador As 2011 comes to an end, I’ll be posting a series of blogs this week, highlighting my travel adventures over the past year. First up: a look at a few new friends I made along the way . . . When you’re traveling solo in […]
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3 Easy Ways to Keep Wanderlust Alive
How do restless wanderers fuel their travel lust when not in motion? While between trips recently, here’s where you might have spotted me at home away from home: At the Opera Where better than the opera to get your cultural, artistic and aesthetic fix all in one place? Just give me a passionate, happy-ever-after or […]
It Started with a Pith Helmet
At least I think there’s where my wanderlust all began . . . More years ago than I care to remember, I was standing among my childhood friends a week before Halloween. Mrs. Banner, our elderly neighbor, had asked us to come over because she had a surprise for us. As she led us up […]
Thank You, Oprah!
Photo courtesy of Story Accents – flickr I know. You’re wondering what on earth could Oprah possibly have to do with this travel blog – besides the fact that she’s a Wander Boomer who likes to travel (Can you say “Australia” anyone?). But Oprah represents so much more than that to this Wanderboomer. We grew […]