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I’m definitely not in Vermont anymore.  More to come…

It will happen to you too.  Eventually, despite what everyone says, you do have to go home again.  This week, probably many of you are heading home to see family and friends for the holidays.  If you travel, you do this after every trip. The same cliches are true about both:  no one will understand [...]

But now I’m writing about it… So with our big trip to Mexico, Central America and South America coming up, there was one thing I was going to miss… Europe.  Luckily, I hooked up with the folks at b5 Media, and landed a new writing gig– that focused entirely on traveling Europe. I thought I’d [...]

I’ve gotten some comments recently, saying that I “should” travel in a certain way or that I would “see more” or that it’s “moronic” to travel with dogs. To that I say: Don’t be travel snobs What’s interesting to me is that the most vocal person, wrote from Boston. Are they out traveling the world? [...]

The other day I talked about our itinerary up to Panama. I stopped there. Dead. That’s because there’s an interesting thing about Panama when heading south. You can’t go any further. Not by car anyway. Can you pay a fee to cross? Nope. Bribe an official? You can try, but no. So how are we [...]

This past weekend, we started teaching our 7 and 8 year old nephews Spanish. They actually insisted on it, when they spotted our collection of children’s Spanish books, which included translated versions of Madeline, Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, Narnia (The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe), The Little Mermaid and so on. They [...]

In two weeks we’re on the road again.  So long Vermont, hello open road.  I’ve given some hints about our next destinations, but here’s a sneak preview. We’re driving to South America. We will be taking the dogs, whatever we can fit in the trunk, and heading south.  Why?  Well much as my travel plans [...]