USA Travel

Nicholas Kristof’s fascinating recent New York Times article about unwise budgeting by some of the world’s poorest families, “Moonshine or the Kids,” reveals a truth that applies to all classes …

Let’s play a game called “How many ridiculous elements can you find in the 2010 U.S. Census Race form!” Study the photo below and chuckle. I’ll start, and you add …

We interrupt your regularly-scheduled travel blog to bring you an extremely important update on pineapple-eating technology. “You HAVE to see this,” declared my cousin Eric the moment I entered his …

Let’s sing a little (slightly amended) Joni Mitchell: “Don’t it always seem to go… that you don’t know what you got ’til it’s gone [for nine months]?” As already discussed, …

I am drooping like spinach in a frying pan right now due to jet lag… but I haven’t missed a single day of blogging since that night I was ill …

HOORAY! Home! Home! After nine months around the world, can I tell you how delicious Boston feels? City of my heart! Home of the Emerald Necklace! Country of my birth! …

The backpack that will take me around the world! Meg looked up from her tea with disdain. “Why the heck would you possibly need three bathing suits?” she asked. “I …

One of the chief reasons some people curse / hurl soda cans at folks who travel extensively is the assumption that travel cost Megabuck$ unattainable by the average lad or …

What happens when you tell someone you’re going to take the next eight or more months traveling around the world? Spin the wheel of reactions… where will it land? A. …

Testing, testing, tap-tap-tap… Thus begins my first full blown Mama-Kahuna BLOG! The reason: After 6 years teaching high school English in Boston Public Schools (more on this wonderful time later), …