Perhaps you remember the scene in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011)* when Evelyn (Judi Dench) swigs a gin and tonic thinking that it’s a glass of water. Well, that was filmed on the rooftop terrace of the Jagat Niwas …
Category: Baby Boomer
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
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.
