Do you love to travel? What about travel writing? As a travel fan, author and blogger, I find that Trade Day at the LA Times Travel Show is the place to learn what’s new and hot in the travel business. I follow several travel bloggers, but did not know about professional organizations that link travel bloggers with the travel industry. The Continue Reading
“Waiting for My Camel to Come Back” by Ian Mathie
The Camel at Ngiouri Well "My Gutsy Story®" by Ian Mathie I travelled south from the Bilma oasis, in the empty wastes of the Sahara, with a small Hausa salt trading caravan. We had been going five days when we reached the well at Ngiouri. Situated below a small hillock with a stone cairn on top, the well had not been visited by anyone else for Continue Reading
Ready For a Move? 3 Ways to Connect with the Locals
If you're like me, you've probably spent a vacation in a sunny part of the world, and while sipping a cocktail said, "Duke (insert your loved one's name) how would you like to live (insert location)?" Now granted, these locations change as you mature, and while Cancun may be the place for you when you're twenty-three, Naples, Continue Reading
Rising Above the Pettiness to Focus on the Positive by Marian Beaman
"Gutsy in Ukraine" My Gutsy Story® by Marian Beaman The gutsiest part of our visit to Ukraine in 2011 was that we didn’t use the “return” part of our ticket 4 days into the trip. Why, you ask, would you want to leave a country with affectionate, artistic people? With gold-domed cathedrals? With an astonishing exchange rate of 8.97 greve / $ Continue Reading
To Live Life, I Cannot Fear Change by Boyd Lemon
Winter At age sixty-six, I had lived my whole life in California, most of it on the coast, where the difference between summer and winter is about ten degrees. Some might consider such a climate ideal, and I suppose it is, but I yearned to experience the four seasons. I decided, if not now, when? I sold my house and sold, gave away or stored Continue Reading