We’re back to voting to decide this week’s Photo of the Week! Photo A: Baby coconuts growing outside my front door. Simple but fun. Post B: A shrine, also outside my place! (I guess I didn’t venture very far this week.) Photo C: This is my favorite but Mark turned his nose up, hence the voting…

Forty years ago this summer, my maternal Grandmother traveled from her home town of Decatur, Illinois, to explore the islands of Greece. The year was 1971 and she had lost her husband the winter before. She traveled with two couples, and took a very similar route to the one that my Mom and I (her daughter…

In my last post I wrote about having my “aha moment” with cruising. I think in large part my enjoyment of this trip came from our careful selection of a small cruise line. While I can’t speak much to the contrasts of one fleet of small ship cruise line to another, we were mostly concerned with…

This travel quote struck me deeply the moment I read it. I mulled it over and over in my head, repeating it to friends and waiting to hear their thoughts. Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you traveled. -Mohammed As someone who has spent more of her life in an educational…

As I’ve mentioned before, I had serious reservations about being a first time cruiser. I had a vision of cruise ships as unsustainable, environmentally crippling, floating tourist traps where I’d spent my nights elbowing small children to get my share of the crappy dinner buffet and my days desperately trying to absorb an iota of local…