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Getting Back from a Trip is Hard Sometimes

Getting Back from a Trip is Hard Sometimes

Settling into the day to day is always hard after a trip.  Anxiety over such a wide range of problems makes it hard to feel relaxed and inspired by the trip, it’s more like you come back to so many challenges and problems and it just doesn’t feel like you […]

News from Europe

News from Europe

  Today I learned some interesting facts about what’s new in Europe, when I met with 40 tourism officials, representing 15 different countries, and I asked them all the same thing. What’s new, hot and being talked about where you live? In Estonia, it’s not a new topic but their […]

My Growing Library of Travel Sounds

My Growing Library of Travel Sounds

Yesterday I did a radio program and shared some thoughts about my trip to Japan last week. I enjoy the medium of radio, speaking in clean sound bites, leaving room for the hosts to get in their questions, and mostly, having interesting things to share about the destination. I have […]

Thomas A Harty, What an Incredible Life

Thomas A. Harty

On the front page of today’s Recorder are two lowlifes from Athol who fled to Virginia after allegedly murdering one of the most interesting men who ever lived in Orange, MA.  That man was Thomas A Harty, and in the paper today his long life story was told. Among the […]

The Mysteries of the Plate and of the Eiheiji Temple in Japan

Eiheiji Temple

In any trip to Japan, you’ll see a lot of shrines and Buddhist temples.  As in Europe, where cathedrals and monasteries are always on the itinerary, here too despite the fact that 80 percent of the population no longer attends any church, religious sites are at the top of the […]

Bringing the Great Things About Japan Home

Bringing the Great Things About Japan Home

I have a tendency to try to adopt or least want to adopt many things that I find on my journeys. When I came back from The Republic of Georgia I was determined cooked fast large buffets just like they did in that country. I even had a dinner party […]

A Railway Museum and a Dazzling Light Show in Japan’s Alps

Myoko Happiness Illumination fills a ski slope with wondrous blinking LED lights and tech music.

I’m walking down a hill looking at what I have 1.5 million LED lightbulbs all arranged and undulating to create dragons and incredible forms on the sides of a ski slope. It’s called Myoko Happiness Illumination, and in an ‘only in Japan’ kind of way, it was a thrill! This […]

Japan: Random Observations

Japan: Random Observations

I arrived in Japan on Thursday, and here are some of my observations so far after touring around Tokyo, and a town in the suburbs called Kanto. First, Japan is crowded, it becomes the clearest when I stood at an intersection in the Ginza district and the sea of humanity […]

Boston to Tokyo in Japan Airline’s Premium Economy: A Joyous Journey

Boston to Tokyo in Japan Airline’s Premium Economy: A Joyous Journey

I took a recent trip aboard one of today’s most modern planes, Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner 9, which is in service daily between Boston and Tokyo. It’s a 13-hour flight, so comfort is paramount, and this plane made the journey much easier. In addition, JAL’s flight attendants were there at every […]

In Tokyo, A Breakfast with Miso, Rice and Fish Gets Me Going

The sushi man about to create some tuna and eel rolls in Tokyo

After 16 years of regular travel, I am happy to still be completely excited about wherever I end up. I anticipate trips as my regular tonic, having a trip coming up is what keeps me happy and on course.  Today I am writing this at breakfast at the Hotel Keihan […]

Greenfield Co-Working Space: Find Out What’s Going On!

Greenspace CoWork Community Symposium: an afternoon of refreshments, discourse, inquires & brainstorming. Co-Work (ko’wor’k) n. Membership-based workspaces; Diverse groups of local & national professionals, freelancers, independent entrepeneurs, and students working together in a shared, communal setting The Greenspace Team invites you to join us October, 8th at 4pm @ The […]

Breakfast in Shiraz, Iran

bread-in-shiraz

I remember this scene well, it was early morning, and I took a stroll down a back street in Shiraz, Iran in 2008.  Men were lining up to get breakfast from a giant metal bowl, it was called ful, a mix of chickpeas and vegetables, served using this lavash bread […]

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