What Travel Does to You

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Travel opens your eyes to different ways of doing things. It’s also filled with unexpected surprises and ways to grow and expand.

Travel, Travel, Travel & Books, Books, Books

Do you recall where you were when the Twin Towers fell? Many of us can immediately picture the spot, hear the sounds surrounding us and smell the smells. I was teaching in Dundalk. The principal’s voice calmly took over the building at the beginning of recess, asking us all to kindly proceed to the staff […]

The Pros & Cons of Cruise Ship Travel

Holland America cruise ship docked in Alaska

In honour of their (mid-Covid) 50th anniversary, my parents generously gifted our entire family with a group cruise to Alaska in August 2025. I’ve sailed the seas once before, and though I didn’t spend hours vomiting overboard, I admit that it wasn’t my fav type of travel. At that time in the Caribbean seas, whenever […]

People Watching Around the World 101: Cuba

Little boy looking through binoculars

(No, Not the Creepy Kind) “Well, I’m just people watchingThe other people watching meWe’re all people watchingThe other people watching we” Jack Johnson song from Curious George movie, 2006 Listen here Travel forces you to consider why you do things the way you do. Suddenly, you realize that not everyone does life the same way […]