Memoirs: Traveling

by Speider Schneider

38 Miles To Insanity There is nothing like an early start to a long trip in the car. Travelling east into the rising sun inspires, invigorates and gives you a splitting headache that would kill the entire Turkish army....read more

by Lisa Mcelwee

Poland and Remembering Auschwitz About one year ago, my then 16 year old son, approached me with a sheepish grin and one of those teenager looks that says, "I have something I want. If you say 'no' I will have no probl...read more

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by Nola Lee Kelsey

Serengeti Safari - Memories and Miscommunications! The scene before me could be matched nowhere else on earth. Parched yellow grass spread out before us as far as the eye could see - broken only by the occasional umbrel...read more

by Melodee

The decision to go to Europe was a spontaneous one made after experiencing a tragedy followed immediately by a small windfall. Since I had wanted to go to Europe for over 40 years it seemed like the right thing to do. ...read more

by Kallie Szczepanski

Fire licks at the base of the heaped bonfire fuel, then leaps up toward the cross at the top. The crowd holds its breath, and ever so slowly, the cross leeeeeeans, and starts to fall. The police move in, establishing a p...read more

by Karen Richardson

So, I'm buying a skirt and a beach cover up at this little store in Kuta, Bali when one of the female clerks pats me on the butt and says in Indonesian, "you have a nice butt it's big!" Argh! So, I explain, no, it's no...read more

by Phyl Cameron

Keep your sense of humour. "Passports are the most important article you have and must be kept in your possession at all times." Nodding wisely I looked at our thirty year old daughter who had already travelled the worl...read more

by Katherine Soh

"PLEASE be aware that Singapore is a country of strict legislation. You are expected to know the laws before arriving. The penalty of trafficking drugs is punishable by death," the pilot announced when we began our descent...read more

by Gavin Smith

I stepped off the dirty chrome Greyhound bus in Livingstone, Montana, several thousand metres above sea level, and wondered why the rain was so warm. Looking up, I saw a bone-dry, guano-caked bus shelter. Looking down, I s...read more

by Trudy Graham

The Bats of Austin I have spent the past 30 years travelling the world and have many stories to tell. For instance, Amtraking around America, in 2001, someone suggested that my friend and I should go to Austin to "see t...read more

by R.M. Azami

The eastern Patagonian desert of Argentina is a vast, windswept landscape, populated by scrub vegetation and sparse, polychromatic watering holes that stretches for more than a thousand longitudinal miles. One can drive fr...read more

by Dawn Roland

During our marriage of 33 years, my husband and I have traveled all over the United States, a large portion of Canada and parts of the Caribbean. After my Father passed away, my Mother had not traveled for many years when...read more

by Tom Poyner

Sunday before last Rich and I caught a bus down to London as the start of a trip to Pamplona, in the Basque Country (not Spain... but technically Spain). The two and a half hour bus trip to London was just an appetiser ...read more

by Sophie Krikorian

There are two incredible things to do on the island of Maui. Snorkeling there can be a fantastic experience and I once had the joy of spending a weekend on a private sailboat which was docked in Lahaina. We sailed out each...read more

by William Valitus

The Cruise All Aboard. Once upon a time, my wife Sherrie, engrossed in the travel section of the Sunday newspaper informed me, "Let's go on a cruise." "What for?" I asked. "We need a change. We haven't done anything...read more

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by Doug Bower

Living In Mexico - Where Did That Bus Driver Go? Gringolandians, those living in Gringo enclaves, live such isolated and bizarrely separate lives from the Mexicans in the same town that they have on more than one occasi...read more

by Darlene Mokrycki

Tangiers has a mystique about it that has remained unrivaled in more than forty years of traveling off the "beaten path." From the hydrofoil ride across the Straits of Gibraltar to our landing in Tangiers, excitement and a...read more

by Belle Starr

I think I was born to travel. My first memories are of a trip to Canada when I was four years old. Travel in the 1950's by car was slow by todays standards. The 500 mile drive to Canada which we made every year took two d...read more

by Everett Autumn

Living was pretty easy in Vancouver in the summer of 1973. For one thing, the progressive government of British Columbia had set up a series of hostels in the province, where for one Canadian dollar, you could have a bed i...read more

by Graham Brown

This was my second trip to Rhodes and today, I decide to take a rented car to see one of the lesser known sights on this sun-drenched island that forms the major link in the Dodecanese chain. I am based at Pefkos, a medium...read more