Rescheduled

Finally. The tour company called. They can’t get us into Thailand for our tour as scheduled (later this week), and now we’re scheduled to take that trip in March.
The political protesters are moving out of the Bangkok airports, which will eventually reopen for business as usual. I hope. I understand that PAD, the group that [...]

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New landscapes, new eyes

This is cross-posted on my main blog, Suz at Large.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
– Marcel Proust

True enough, but sometimes seeing new landscapes in the company of new people gives us – or lets us borrow – new eyes.
I wasn’t a world traveler when I [...]

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Diversions

We were in Sydney on a lovely fall Sunday, which was also Mother’s Day. [Remember: Southern Hemisphere = seasons opposite from the US.] Our group got off to an early morning start on our walking tour of the Rocks, and we encountered few other people then. [...]

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Fried Okra

There were 44 group members and one tour director on our trip last month – which means there were 45 different journeys occurring in the same time and general space. Without getting into the physics or metaphysics of that fact – which anyway is beyond my competence – I will say that my journey was [...]

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Mystery

If you research too much, maybe you won’t get surprises.
You might not turn a corner in a new place and feel your sense of perspective shake.
Your jaw might not drop.
You could forget that life is bigger than your hard drive or your library or your wide-angle lens.
I’m glad I didn’t get around to reading much [...]

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