On a visit to Newport, RI, the Bashful Adventurer finds a blissful place to stay: in guestrooms at Bannister’s Wharf. What makes them special?
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Flashback Friday: Circling the Palatine
What I love about travel, aside from actually visiting a place, is the anticipation beforehand and then the memories afterward. I’m years and years past my first trip to Rome, and my memories of my solitary adventure there are a bit hazy, but I remember being drawn to the Roman Palatine because that is where…
#TBT Remembering the Italian Lake District
It’s Throwback Thursday, so here is a photo from a 1989 month-long trip to Italy. What I have learned since that trip: label your photos while you still remember where you went. I’m pretty sure this is Lake Maggiore, but it could possibly be Lake Garda. What else I have learned since that trip: Listen…
Making Field Trips More Fun: Gargoyles and Grotesques
It’s Wacky Wednesday! One favorite travel oddity is a certain grotesque at the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. The difference between a gargoyle and a grotesque, I have learned, is that gargoyles have spouts as part of a building’s drainage system. Grotesques apparently are merely decorative. Who knew gargoyles served such a practical function?…
Paris: This Is the End
A fitting finale for our last day in Paris is a visit to Père-Lachaise Cemetery. On the subway ride there, I begin to doubt the appropriateness of this trek. Are we squandering our time by looking to the past? Will the Senior Adventurer and the Youthful Adventurer, both on this trip, become bored or dismissive?…
Reading Without Reservations
I pick up Alice Steinbach’s Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman (Random House, 2000) at North Salem, N.Y.’s Ruth Keeler Memorial Library book sale, so I don’t have a lot of money invested in it. The first 20 pages or so really annoy so that I wonder whether I should stick with it,…
Armchair Traveling: Next Destination—Asia
As a firm believer in writing it down to make it happen, reading about it to make it happen also is an avid pursuit of mine. I don’t just set my travel goals, I then read about the places I want to see. I read history, of course, but also memoirs and fiction. Well-told stories,…
The Wrong Way to Belize
I’m not in Belize for more than a day when I am ready to drop everything and relocate there. I love the jungle, the caves, the thatched roofs, rising waters, wildlife, and the complete lack of people. I also like waterfront places to stay, pink hotels, and drinking rum with strangers. Belize is most definitely…
More than Just Hot Dogs on Memorial Day
Remembering on this Memorial Day 2014 those who died in a battle. It’s so easy to forget how fortunate we have been. Gratitude to those who gave their lives. Think how different our lives might be if battles hadn’t gone as they did. Thanks to those who paid with their lives. —Lori Tripoli
The Ups and Downs of Mont Saint-Michel
I both love and loathe my experience at Mont Saint-Michel. I’m enamored of its history—how the Archangel Michael appeared to a priest some 700 years ago and told him to build this church in the water, how the priest equivocated right up to the point where the angel put a hole in his head, and…