This is Different
It’s the first time I’ve experienced this. I’ve racked up lifetime air miles equivalent to 20 round trips to the moon. I’ve spent time in several dozen countries, and even done a previous month-long vacation. But this is different. The experience of continuous surface travel, over a period long enough for time to slow, and […]
Postcard from the Suez Canal
In passage from The Red Sea to The Mediterranean Facts about the Suez Canal: There are no locks; it is at sea level for its entire extent It took 10 years to build, and opened for operation in 1869 Its current capacity 47 ships per day, who make the passage in one way convoys, north […]
Petra: A Portal in Time
Gulf of Suez, In queue to enter the Canal En route to Israel 60 years – 1 day Our stops throughout this journey have been at points of intersection, where waves of successive cultures left their marks on local histories, sometimes in still distinct layers, others as ingredients in various exotic mixtures. All have been […]
A Hope for Growth
Travel of this sort is not at all about movement from A to B, or principally about the pleasures of the diversions along the way. (Note: they have been very nice however.) It’s highest purpose is to grab you by the shoulders, shaking loose and casting off the set perspective of your world view, with […]
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