winardeditorial, Author at The Baby Bloomer

Seize the Day in a New Way

My original inspiration for starting a blog was being laid off from my job of more than 20 years. It hit me that 1) travel was what has made my dreams reality throughout my life, and 2) I had never …

30 Articles for TravelAwaits: Why I Have Been Absent from the Blog World

So in June 2019 I posted a blog entitled Travels with Babs Darling: On My First Tour. It was about how, after 50 years of mostly solo wanderings around the world, I took my first guided tour to the Badlands …

Dead Animals: Beatrix Potter on an Acid Trip

Rabbits’ Village School (1888) features 48 rabbits hard at work with their sums; photo from exhibit at Mr. Potter’s Museum of Curiosities in Cornwall before contents were sold at auction.

Part I: Curiosities

It all began at the venerable Strand…

Memories of Oaxaca—T+L’s Best City in the World, 2020

My over-60-travel cohorts are bursting to return to the road, but we pretty much agree that it is still too early to travel. So, many of us have been returning to our memories and daydreams again and again.