Seeing the World One Step at a Time
This was Richard’s Keynote to The European Travel Commission, presented on May 9, 2013 I once ran with the bulls of Pamplona….by mistake, involuntarily. I was at Microsoft, where we were developing a new travel product that would become Expedia, and we had the idea… [Read More]
While scouting for the first descent of the Baro River in Ethiopia, a tributary of the White Nile, I heard about a Peace Corps volunteer, Bill Olsen, 25, a recent graduate of Cornell, who decided to take a dip in the river at Gambella, a… [Read More]
Getting Here The estate is located about 25 minutes outside of Florence Italy in the small town of Bargino. This is almost directly south of Florence, off of Highway SR 2 and only about 30 minutes from the beautiful town of Siena. Many airlines and… [Read More]
As well as being favored for its travel opportunities, when it comes to global migration, the US is still one of the most favored destinations of migrants all over the world. Despite the somewhat negative press coverage about the United States in recent years, millions… [Read More]
John M. Edwards trades in his Jeepney for a cab ride to a connecting flight through the traffic-jam capital of the world: Manila! On my way back from Cebu in the Philippines, with my then preggers girlfriend, we received word from the crackling cockpit that… [Read More]
Getting Here There are nonstop flights to Hamilton from a number of cities along the east coast of the USA as well as London Gatwick. It is surprisingly a short flight from many major metropolitan areas including New York (under 2.5 hours) and Toronto (about… [Read More]
Entering through the gates of our destination, I stopped in my place. Through the gleam of nature in the dainty courtyard was a tiny old woman, approaching us. She was welcoming us but my heart wavered, quickening a beat or two. An earlier encounter with… [Read More]
I had my first taste of travel back in 2007 when I went on a group tour throughout Europe to six countries in twenty days. It was a group of kids from all over New Jersey that I did not know, but after those twenty… [Read More]
An American backpacker treats Sumatra, Indonesia’s “Lake Toba”–filled with crunchy Elysian entrepots –as a writers’ retreat where backing off comes with the territory “Characters are just like black marks on paper. . . –William Gass, Fiction and the Right of Life I arrive by high-speed… [Read More]
South Australia is full of strange places and the mining town of Coober Pedy is no exception. On first sight there isn’t much to see for a place billed the ‘opal capital of the world’. But that is for a very simple reason: it’s all… [Read More]
