Random Thoughts - The Mad Traveler

A Life More Ordinary: Reflections on Shoveling and Suitcases

I once met a Guatemalan woman who told me of her childhood when she was part of the armed resistance

It happens. Luggage goes lost or damaged and no gives a damn at the airline. The series of tubes known

It’s not just Johnny Depp’s birthday today…Egypt just before I turned 30. Cuba when I was “the age of Christ”

Often what travel writing leaves out is the travel. I write about temples and ruins, museums and beaches, and hotels

Call it what you will. Forgetfulness? Perhaps procrastination? Let’s just say “busy.” The fall was a whirlwind of travel and

While my recent flights with (K) u-wait Airways and Gulf Air have given me new perspectives on the definition of

When I first saw children, infants, balanced in the wind on handlebars I thought, Are these people crazy? And of

It’s the eve of departure. My living room is full of scattered piles of clothes and odds and ends I