Travel diaries: It's not the destination, it's the journey

by D.J. Breitenberger

Ocean, a trawler and a motorcycle (A Slightly Different Cruise to Mexico) "Something has changed and the guy now says that we might have a weather window in the next 48 hours." My friend announced as he was getting o...read more

by Tonya Wilson

In my hometown of Chicago, we have a lot of trains. We have the pink line, the Brown line, the Blue line, the Orange line, the Purple line, the Green line, and last but not least the Red line. However, the Redline train is...read more

by Ted Jones

THE FRENCH RIVIERA: THE FABLED COAST The French Riviera, that sun-drenched south-eastern corner of France squeezed between the southern Alps and the Mediterranean Sea, has been a magnet for writers for seven centuries. ...read more

by Margaret Mair

Every journey begins with a dream. Ours was to travel by sailboat, to roam what parts of the world we could reach finding our routes and our resting places on the water. We nourished our dream with books read and skills ...read more

by Jason Reuter

A mere three days ago, I was sipping tea and smoking cheap, Egyptian cigarettes while watching fireworks and Arabian horses dance in a back street of downtown Alexandria, Egypt. Now, in a coffee shop in rainy Portland, Or...read more

by Pamela Ashton

Snow was sifting from the gray clouds like powdered sugar being sprinkled on a cake. We sat in our car, watching the leaden weather and wishing it would improve before we began our three day ferry ride from Bellingham, Wa...read more

by Michael Mccormick

From my 1999 travel diary - 9-10-99 People ask me, "Michael, do you ever get tired of going back to the same places again and again?" My answer is always,"No!" To begin with, we only go to places that WE like to go. Every...read more

by Bernard Grover

An hour's drive north of Balikpapan, Kalimantan, on the island of Borneo, brings us to a cross-road marked by a Pertamina gas station and two dozen or more warung (small shops selling water, coffee and other necessities). ...read more

by Barb Beswetherick

The Seven Mile Walk We were staying at our time share, the San Luis Bay Inn in Avila California when I decided to take the walk, a seven mile loop around the resort winding through the hills and cliffs overlooking the ...read more

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by Renata Hunter

DANCING, is one of the many pleasures and joys of traveling in other cultures and you don't need to know the language since the body speaks one language. If the PASSION in you is in a dormant stage or barely awakening, wat...read more

by Samantha Bee

The landscape was constantly changing. The trees shifting from orange blossoms to blue, the grass alternately the soft lawn from home and the scratchy beach tufts surrounded by sand from various vacation memories. There ...read more

by John Graham

YOU MAY STAY HERE FOREVER In breaking a journey in Poland on a return from the Soviet Union, it is possible to get a 24-hour visa at the airport of entry. It is not only possible; it seems to be the only possibility. At...read more

by Tarci Moffat

I embarked on my first REAL travel early 2006. The planning started late 2005 as just a kind of a whim. I had wanted to go to England for many years. I had the chance to go in high school but did not have the funds to tr...read more

by Michael Mcnabb

The Black Christ: The Anatomy of a Miracle The Feast of the Black Nazarene is traditionally held on January 9 in Quiapo, a district of Manila. This year 2.6 million people gathered along the procession route hoping to t...read more

by Randy Godwin

An adventure and an experience was my first trip to Negril, Jamaica. After going through the ritual at the Hartsfield International airport in Atlanta, I thought that smooth sailing lay ahead. After a relatively short ...read more

by April Jones

Enjoying life takes a willingness to forget. To grow as a person old habits must be forgotten. Getting back into something that has caused pain before requires putting the memories of that pain aside. The beginning of a ne...read more

by Eric Kabakoff

I am very lucky to have been able to travel all over this country. As of this writing, I have been to 35 states (airport stops do not count), and I am currently trying to figure out ways to hit the rest. I live in New York...read more

by K. Louden

Classic Books Depict Trips as Spiritual Journeys. John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress portrays Christian on the road. Robert Pirsig describes his journey with his son in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Chaucer...read more

by Rick Lanning

After my divorce was final, I decided I needed a change of locations. I wanted to lose myself in my work - I write for newspapers - and decided to get as far away from America as I could, even if it was just for a little w...read more

by Hermine

It is 11 pm. Perhaps one should have been in bed by now, but the idea of three weeks' holiday in Eastern Europe (I believe the inhabitants prefer to see it as Central Europe) makes the drudgery of the day's work fade into ...read more