A Day of Dance in Bali
We awake to a simple but beautifully presented breakfast of fresh fruit, freshly squeezed orange and papaya juice and eggs, toast, and banana pancakes. We eat alfresco, with views of the morning rice field stretching out in front...
Wreck Dive: USS Liberty: Tulamben, Bali
We are picked up at 7:00 this morning at our hotel by Sophie, a charming young Frenchwoman, who owns a dive shop, just up the street called Safari Bali We are off to Tulamben, on the northeast coast, to dive. But more...
The Detox Diaries: Day Three
Ow, Ow, Ow. I wake with a low grade thumping detox headache reminiscent of my cold-turkey attempt at stopping coffee a couple of years ago. I’m not sure that it isn’t from last night’s strange absence of my old friend, ‘Two...
How’s My Head and How’s My Heart?
Postscript: I sit here, typing away at my computer, some four years after my initial diagnosis of depression. That December 2015 was perhaps one of the most painful and difficult times I have ever experienced, lived through,...
Extended Travel Burnout
I was surfing the web recently and a 2014 Travel + Leisure article 15 Signs You May Have Travel Burnout caught my eye and made me ponder my own extended travel and the potential for burnout and in particular, our 2004 trip around...
Dreaming of Monaco
Nice is nice but location Monaco beckons. We met Claudia and her husband Marco when we were in Mykonos and they have asked us to lunch aboard their yacht which happens to be anchored in Monaco. This is a complete and total...
A New Years Eve Morning Marriage!
On December 31, 2003 there was a Marriage. Ours, in fact. The ceremony, on New Years Eve morning, was an intimate family gathering at Toronto City Hall Marriage Chambers. Following the ceremony, John’s mother toasted the happy...
Say Cheers and Get Sociable in Halifax!
Are you (hopefully!) planning on heading east this post-COVID summer? Then make Halifax, Canada, where friendly Haligonians enjoy their music-filled pubs and rooftop patios, a must-stop on your Atlantic adventures. I just...
An Entire Year of Following Summer.
A day of travel and time for contemplation. The beginning of a year of living in the moment, following an intense period of planning, when it often seemed that we spent all our time living in the future as we laid the groundwork...
Some Ancient Sea-Dog Superstitions
‘Never Start a Voyage on a Friday. It Will Have a Bad Ending’ An earring is said to give sailors good eyesight and an old sea dog’s tattoo of a cross, an anchor, and a heart protects against dangers at sea and at port. There was...