People we meet are the most memorable part of travel In the 1993 movie "Six Degrees of Separation" the character Ouise (Louise) Kittredge, played by Stockard Channing, gave us this bon mot about how all people on this planet are related to one another, by blood, accident or coincidence. "I read somewhere that everybody on …
It's assumed to be a wonderful experience, but many beg to differ. Stew and I love to travel, and have done so quite a lot since we retired at age 57. And so we've zigzagged across Mexico, from Chiapas to Chihuahua, and abroad from Antarctica to Iceland. We've wondered why some people are not only …
A safari to an African country with teeming wildlife treasures Itinerary: (1) from Johannesburg to Maun in Botswana; (2) Camp at Linyanti River; (3) Camp at Kasanee in Zimbabwe; (4) Victoria Falls; (5) Fly back to Johannesburg. Botswana is boxed in on its northern and western borders by Namibia, on the south and southeast by …
The wages of a too-ambitious itinerary is a major case of jet lag Our recent trip to Dubai and Abu Dhabi and safaris in Botswana and Zimbabwe was both exhausting and fascinating. Hopping from two tiny, ultra-rich emirates along the Persian Gulf to two vast, but largely untouched, nature preserves in Third World Africa was …
In this tiny Mexican town with an unpronounceable name, Christmas is a serious year-round business If you get to visit this lovely town, and you should, you need to remember two things. Its name is Tlalpujahua and that's pronounced something like "Tlal-poo-háh-wa." Practice, so if instead going through Atlacomulco on the way to Tlalpujahua, you …
El Rancho Santa Clara 