by Sue Henderson | Oct 8, 2019 | Backstory, Best Images, Featured, Our Travels, Stories of the Road
Ok. It IS a market. Let’s assume you’re not only there to take in the sights, eat and drink. What should you buy at a Christmas market? I’m gonna say it totally depends on your available space. (Well, you have to draw...
by Sue Henderson | Oct 1, 2019 | Backstory, Best Images, Featured, Our Travels, Stories of the Road, Tips
Ah, good old German food. You might have already sorted out I went to high school in Germany so I might be a smidge biased. But if you like warm, comfort foods, you’ll be hard pressed to find things to hate during the holidays in...
by Sue Henderson | Sep 24, 2019 | Favorites, Featured, Get Inspired, Our Travels
It’s an untranslatable German word for the state of warmth, friendliness and good cheer. And that’s exactly what you get when visiting the many regions of Germany – from Bavaria to the Rhine, the Black Forest (schwartzwald) or the northern seaside, a German...
by Sue Henderson | Sep 24, 2019 | Featured, How To, Our Travels, Stories of the Road
Guide to the Christmas Markets of Central Germany Now, you COULD be absolutely crazy like I was last December, and squeeze in six or seven Christmas markets in a long weekend. It is totally possible to drive from City to City and spend lunch in one, dinner...
by Sue Henderson | Sep 17, 2019 | Featured, Our Travels, Stories of the Road
Off we went with Ansari, our driver, maneuvering through the hordes of vehicles and me snapping away from the front seat. Paul Theroux has it right when he says despite all the levels of privilege available in this India, the great leveler is traffic. All...
by Sue Henderson | Sep 10, 2019 | Chasing Ghosts, Featured, Motivations, Our Travels, Stories of the Road
On the final morning of the 50th Anniversary of Woodstock, we awoke to our newly tie-dyed shirts ready to be worn and headed to Bethel Woods, NY from our little farmhouse Airbnb. We anticipated both high traffic volume and crowded options so set off by 10:30 for...
by Sue Henderson | Sep 6, 2019 | Chasing Ghosts, Featured, Stories of the Road
The lyrics “Wild women don’t worry. Wild women don’t ever get the blues.” were running through my mind as we started our revisiting week with the 50th Anniversary Santana concert in Virginia. It was a sultry summer night with hot Latin licks...
by Sue Henderson | Aug 27, 2019 | Featured, Our Travels, Stories of the Road
Our continued exploration of Rajastan began one morning past the deep ravines and several dams of the westerly range of the Aravalli Hills into a wide fertile valley with early morning activity everywhere: the man with the sleep-eyed...
by Sue Henderson | Aug 20, 2019 | Featured, Our Travels, Stories of the Road
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA We awoke early prepared for a long day of driving from the lakeside tranquility of Udaipur toward the western desert and Jodhpur. Out drive began with the high desert reminiscent of Arizona. There were sandstone and clay mines then ravines...
by Sue Henderson | Aug 13, 2019 | Featured, Our Travels, Stories of the Road, Uncategorized
Aldous Huxley wrote of Rajastan “The long days of traveling thru Rajputana seemed to me, as I sat entranced at the window, at once short and eternal…Innumerable separate images, seen during hours of contemplation, have blended and run together in my mind to for a...
