It was my sixth trip to India, so I must love traveling there. But it always takes a while for my senses to catch up to India time. Whenever I leave the airport in Delhi I am gobsmacked by crowds, …
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My Best Exotic Udaipur Places
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 …
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Wanderlust: What Inspires Women to Travel?
“What book or film has inspired your solo travel or group travel?”
I posted that question on four sites for women travelers, from millennial travelers to senior travelers, from solo travelers to group travelers (Girls Love Travel, Female …
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Apollo 11 and the ‘60s: Why I Felt Nothing
According to the network news broadcasts, some 650 million people around the world watched the moon landing in 1969 and were “united” by the success of the Apollo 11 team. I had a different experience of those events. Although the …
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Talking Turkey: Another Best/Worst Trip
It was 2:00 a.m. and we hadn’t slept for almost 35 hours. We had been waiting for a car to pick us up from the airport in Istanbul, and I couldn’t reach our hotel on my phone. Then I realized …
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