Hello, again, Blogonauts! An ounce of pounce can be as valuable as a ton of anticipation. And thus, I've lept onto a chance to travel again, with only a bit more than a week of admittedly partial planning. This time it's a major meander, lasting 3 weeks. The route began with a flight to the land of my roots, where I'm visiting my mom in the shadow of the Great Smoky Mountains. Then tomorrow (Wednesday), the airlines will ricochet my luggage and me from Dixie ...

Hello again, Blogonauts! Well, I'm home. There were no noticeable slip-ups in my return from Iceland. Delta landed the plane a few minutes early. Customs and border control at Logan Airport created fewer headaches than ever. And my 3-hour drive to pick up Bergen and bring us both back home to New Hampshire was simply routine. After 2 weeks of touring one country, there were a few overall impressions that didn't fit well into any single blog entry. So in the int...

Hello again, Blognauts! It has been a while! Did you miss my mini mobile missives? If so, there's a treat ahead. Beginning February 22, I will start an 18-day journey through India. And you will find posted here a host of photos and a rack of writings about the experience. (In case you wonder why my travels entered radio-silence, let me explain. At the end of 2016, the TravelPod site vanished into the Internet ether, never to be seen again. Finding a replacemen...

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.. ...