During a recent trip to Panama, I spent a few days in a small town called Las Lajas. It was really small–as in, it had just a store or two, a handful of restaurants (mostly closed due to it being rainy season), a couple farms, a cemetery and a lovely […]
Read MoreIn a matter of minutes, I went from having a large/lovely beach pretty much to myself to having lunch with a leftover hippy/beach squatter/Rasta wannabe and then, briefly, being part of a quirky party he was having under his private lean-to. How the heck did this happen? Well, Random Travel […]
Read MoreWritten on November 14, 2011 by CB Driver in Humor, Low-budget travel I admire people who know how to camp and actually love it. I really do. They’re not unlike those whose VCRs and coffee pots never flash 12:00. How do they do it? What is their secret? Obviously, I’m […]
Read MoreUmmayad Mosque, Damascus As you read in Part 1 and Part 2 of this series, within just a few days of arriving in Syria, I was pretty smitten with Damascus and then, torn between two…husbands. I was also torn between staying with there and checking out his slightly conservative brother […]
Read MoreClimb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. —John Muir (All the photos in this post are […]
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