6 Month Update on Life in Cuenca (Part 1)
October 12th, 2014
(well o.k. – make that now nearly 8 months!) I admit it – I’ve been somewhat negligent in my duties [&hellip
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Avoiding the Gringo Trap – Whew!
October 1st, 2014
O.k. so here’s my story. I happen to have 3 fabulous handmade bags/purses that I got in Laos and Mongolia [&hellip
Wait! Chicago Pizza – Here in Cuenca, Ecuador?
September 22nd, 2014
You can take the girl out of Chicago, but you can’t take (the delectable tastes of) Chicago out of the [&hellip
> My 30 Best Travel Tips <
September 15th, 2014
(1 for nearly each 30+ year of travel) Enough of this perpetual dredging up of the past here lately. The [&hellip
Catching Up Series: Morocco 6 of 8
September 1st, 2014
Sooo many eclectic corners in one smallish country – yet another idyllic corner of Morocco that I’ll not soon forget… [&hellip
Catching Up Series: Morocco 5 of 8
August 25th, 2014
Good.NESS. Talk about (needing to) Catch Up! Still a bazillion pics and stories from my final days in Asia (both [&hellip
Slow Travel by the Numbers
August 18th, 2014
Cobbling together those 11 collages in last week’s 1,000 Days of Roaming the Globe post proved to be such a [&hellip
1,000 Days of Roaming the Globe!
August 10th, 2014
29 October 2011 – 24 July 2014 The date crept up on me unexpectedly. A stray question in one of [&hellip
The Requisite Ecuador CUY Dinner
August 2nd, 2014
If you’re a tourist in Ecuador, within days of your arrival you have two choices for tackling the (arguably) national [&hellip
Spanish: Ah, the Difference a Single Letter Makes…
July 22nd, 2014
Slowly but surely, poco a poco, I’m learning the ropes of my new Ecuadorian culture, and with it – how [&hellip
Inti Raymi – Festival of the Sun
June 24th, 2014
Goodness – 4 whole months now in my new Ecuadorian home, yet… What with settling in here at 8,000+ feet [&hellip
Uh Toto, We Ain’t Shoppin’ at Safeway Anymore
May 21st, 2014
I’ve shopped at plenty of exotic food markets in Vietnam of course. Indeed, open air street markets tucked into [&hellip
Catching Up Series: Morocco 4 of 8
May 15th, 2014
For this edition of the Catching Up: Morocco series, we have a redux of actually “catching up” on photos that [&hellip
Catching Up Series: Morocco 3 of 8
May 9th, 2014
Once again we momentarily interrupt the goings-on here in my new Ecuadorian home, to continue the saga of my 2009 [&hellip
Easter in Ecuador – Sharing Traditions
May 3rd, 2014
(btw, the group pic above, of everybody holding up those green papers? They spell out: back row (Spanish) “Feliz Pasqua”, [&hellip
Wanna Learn Spanish? Speak Like an IDIOT!
April 27th, 2014
If you’ve been following my tales here at TravelnLass for the past few years, then you already know that I [&hellip
Welcome
Off-the-beaten-path travel is my passion, and I’ve always lived life “like a kid in a candy store” – eager to sample as many flavors as I can. Indeed, my life motto has long been:
This ain’t a dress rehearsal, folks!
And in that spirit, after years of running my own adventure travel company, and flitting off to far-away places every chance I got… Read more about me…
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