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Prompt #24: Seeing what others have – and don’t have – around the world often helps us appreciate our own good fortune. What are you thankful for this year? “Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn [...]

Prompt #22: Where would today’s travelers be without smartphones, GPS, iPods, iPads, or even the internet? Share one item of tech you can’t live without or tell us how has technology changed the way you travel. “Every once in a while a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything.” –Steve Jobs No surprises here, my [...]

Prompt #22: The word travel comes from a French word meaning “work” and sometimes getting there is work. Between crowded buses, long airline delays, overnight trains and crazy rickshaw rides, transportation can be stressful, but it can also be a rewarding part of the tip. Tell us about a time when the journey became more [...]

Prompt #21: When we travel, our senses are heightened. We feel more alive and we’re more free to do things we might not at home. We can be who we want. There’s an air of urgency to everything we do – we know our time here, in this place, and with these people, is limited. [...]

Prompt #20: Just as the cuisine of a place reveals clues about its culture and history, so does its signature local drink. What’s the best drink you had on the road, and did the drink have any connection to the place where you drank it or the people you drank with? “Drink because you are [...]

Prompt #19: Some places have the power to make even the most die-hard agnostic reconsider their position. Have you ever been in a place where you felt more alive or more connected to nature, the universe, or a higher power than anywhere else? “We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual [...]

Prompt #18: Every traveler has a budget; for some it just might be higher of lower than for others What’s your style? What do you spend very little on and what are you always willing to pay more for? “It’s clearly a budget. It’s got a lot of numbers in it.” –George W. Bush I [...]

Prompt #16: Mental baggage can weigh us down as much as physical baggage when we travel. How do you travel lightly – either emotionally or physically? “Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings – always darker, emptier and simpler.” –Friedrich Nietzsche I’m all about traveling light. One of my favorite ‘traveling light’ memories from this [...]

Prompt #15: What is your favorite (or least favorite) city and what do you love (or hate) about it? “… I could spend my life arriving each evening in a new city.” –Bill Bryson My favorite city in the world is Portland, Oregon. I’m over on my work blog again today prattling on about why [...]

Prompt #14: Quotes This Ayn Rand quote is so concise and meaningful to me. I’ve always been a big believer of the “don’t ask for permission, ask for forgiveness” way of living. I was raised to question things, so my mild problem with authority and questioning ‘why?’ apparently started pretty young. But after reading Atlas [...]