Hello again, Blogonauts! It's been a year. It has been a 12-month, mental-health-infused, music-enhanced marathon. Hopefully I never confused which one was the priority of the moment. But after a year, it's break time once again. Restraining my wanderlust for 52 weeks made simplifying the next journey too difficult. So a sojourner's stew is on the menu over the next 16 days, if you care to read along. First I'll spend 5 solo days in Germany's Rhine Valley. More d...

Hello, again, Blogonauts! Eagerness arises in many forms. For this solo trip to England, the anticipation has been fed & watered by the half-dozen or so English expats, most of whom are visibly thrilled that I am going to spend two weeks ricocheting around England. Even the driver of the van that carried me from Keene was born in England. He left there when quite young, but he said it still feels like home to him, and he wished he could visit more often.. ...

Just a note to alert you to watch the blog for the next 2 weeks. I and a travel buddy are jetting to the eastern side of Europe to explore 4 cities: Istanbul, Vienna, Bratislava, and Prague. Watch as the adventure unfolds!

Welcome back, Blogonauts! It is quite a treat to be travel blogging again! As you almost assuredly already know, I often travel with four fellow vagabonds: Bob, Richard, Shawn, & Toby. At present this peripatetic pentad is yielding to the Siren call of Greece and embarking on an autumn Aegean odyssey. (Give yourself ten points if you waded your way through that miry sentence and caught all of the mythologic references. As always, clicking on the links alo...