Why I Ride: Some people dream of fast cars and a luxury lifestyle. My dream is to free-wheel around ancient towns in the south of France soaking in the atmosphere. Riding my bike makes me feels like a kid again. Woohoo! I’m a free-spirit with […]
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Driving the Nebraska Sandhills by Kim Sosin and Janet Rives
Come Drive with Me Driving west near Grand Island, across the braided Platte one more time, my–our–road begins its lone stunning uphill path across Nebraska. We pass train after train, intense-orange engines, cars heaped with black coal. Then suddenly, Sandhills! Anchored by Little Blue Stem […]
Sacred and Profane Images in Venice and Padua By Bernie Langs
Travel Essay: The laws and edicts are laid out in the Old Testament in exacting terms specifying the ornaments, utensils and measurements for these objects utilized in the holy temple and for the division of spaces designated as sacred from those places for mortals. The biblically […]
Mengistu’s Jacuzzi By Tej Rae
I have only been in Ethiopia for two weeks, and I am sure that sooner of later, I will find someone who can unravel the jacuzzi fetish for me, says Tej Rae.
Magic in Eden by Marguerite Welch
From the travel/memoir Waterborne—A Slow Trip Around A Small Planet, by Marguerite Welch, and
published by Seaworthy Publications in September 2019
Russian Tea by Meg Freer
Brewed with boiling water from the silver samovar, the tea was brought at any time of day by the provodnitsa assigned to our carriage. We called her the tea lady and admired her brightly colored Russian scarf. Everyone drank the tea, including my three-year-old sister and […]
