Wanderism Travel

The new book I’m writing has been a source of continuous excitement to me. This has been due in no small part to the global travel involved during the long research phase. Luckily, Hawai’i has been a part of that phase. Specifically, the research has taken me to the Bishop Museum in [...]

If home is where the heart is, then I have several homes: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Vancouver, BC, Takoradi, Ghana and San Pedro la Laguna, Guatemala.
Today, my heart is heavy for Guatemala in general and San Pedro in particular.
First it was Volcan Pacaya, spewing lava and ash into the air, wreaking havoc with air travel [...]

I know what you’re thinking. We have Google Maps, MapQuest, GPS tools and handheld devices to decipher it all. Why do we need actual maps any more? They’ve gone the way of the astrolabe, the sextant and the foot pedal sewing machine.
Well, not so fast.
A gentleman by the name of Jack Joyce runs [...]

We’re all travelers, and whether we take the low cost packaged tour plan, or go via the rent-a-car-and-find-the-hotels-along-the-way route, we all like a little ‘posh’ every once in awhile. But the word ‘posh’ has never been associated with airline travel. Until now, that is.
The first new double-decker Airbus A380 was delivered to Australian [...]

Tunner: “We must be the first tourists since the war.”
Kit: “We’re not tourists. We’re travelers.”
Tunner: “Oh. What’s the difference?”
Port: “A tourist thinks about going home the moment they arrive, Tunner.
Kit: “Whereas a traveler might not come back at all.”
- From the film “The Sheltering Sky”, Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci (original novel by Paul Bowles)
Literary travel [...]