My brain hurts from trying to unearth memories of my truncated career as a tour guide for preteens and teenagers in Europe nearly 45 years ago. I believe that the experience (both the disasters and my inability to evade them) …
Author: babsbloomer
The Summer from Hell: Worst Trip I Ever Took
So the ad appeared as if sent by a celestial messenger: Help Wanted—Tour Leader in Europe. It was 1976, and I was out of work. I had a series of short-term jobs vaguely related to my education in broadcast journalism—a …
Travels with Babs Darling: On My First Tour
When I was growing up in the 1950s and early 60s I was an obsessive reader. One of my favorite subjects was travel, and I became fascinated by countries I considered “exotic” (definitely meat for a kid from a small …
Someday YOU’LL be a Mother and You’ll Know How It Feels: When Your Child Takes to the Road
It was 1970 and my first trip to Europe. My parents accompanied me to the airport, and, as I was on line headed for the plane, my mother said, “If you’re not back in six months, you’ll never see me …
Travel Lessons from a Tibetan Monk: Part 2
This is the second part of my interview with Khenpo Pema Wangdak, a Tibetan Buddhist monk who is based in New York City (see part 1).
I visited Khenpo (an honorary title) Pema a few weeks ago at his small …