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Another Chance for Usedom 17 Aug 2013 | 09:55 am
Elli and Peet in Heringsdorf, Usedom Recently, I dissed the Baltic Sea. I called it a 'make-do' sort of vacation spot. I pooh-poohed the smoked and pickled fish thing. I did. I haven't become a fan o...
Z is for Zillertal 16 Aug 2013 | 09:01 pm
Sexy Cow For the last 18 years, I've been hearing Germans talk about where they renew their mental strength, where they recharge their batteries. For lots of Europeans--not just Germans--the place to...
Guest Reader at SmokeLong Quarterly 7 Aug 2013 | 04:58 pm
Hi, sweet IMBO readers! You may know me solely as the adorable, self-deprecating curator of this here travel blog, but if you gently scrape a couple of layers off, you'll see there's more to the man b...
I Heart Hiking 30 Jul 2013 | 10:58 pm
Hiking is not hiking without cows. Why, you might ask, do I heart hiking so much? It's one of my favorite things to do in the world. If I could eat, sing and write while hiking, I'd be in Heaven. Wai...
Rhodes and AIDA -- The Colossus and the Colossal 27 Jul 2013 | 05:11 pm
We're nearing the end of our cruise of the Aegean and Black Seas. We are all a little weepy. We could go on and on and on with the cruise. We've heard rumors of an 80-day cruise, and we're seriously c...
Samos -- Almost Turkey 25 Jul 2013 | 05:54 pm
Our boat from the hills above the Old Town of Samos Just to prove that I have other qualities besides adorableness, I'm going to gloat a bit now about my sense of geography. Or maybe my sense of intu...
City Hopping -- Odessa, Ukraine 24 Jul 2013 | 01:44 am
The port of Odessa The first thing you'll notice about Odessa if you reach the city from the port is that it's industrial; the second thing you'll notice is the Potemkin Stairs. The third thing you'l...
Y'all ever Heard of Yalta? 20 Jul 2013 | 11:31 am
The harbor and the buses . . . about ten feet from the ship. After Sochi, where we had to be schlepped into the port in tenders from the cruise ship due to all the 2014 Winter Olympics Potemkin spiff...
Winners of the First Annual I Must Be Off! Travel Essay Contest 19 Jul 2013 | 10:14 pm
First of all, thank you to everyone who entered your work in this competition. Your essays have taken me and my readers to far-flung and thought-provoking places--from Savar to Scotland, from Cairns t...
God on the Rocks -- a Visit to The Metéora 17 Jul 2013 | 10:04 am
One of 6 remaining monasteries at The Metéora She introduces herself jokingly as the Jungfrau Maria (the Virgin Mary), and the tour group--the one waiting for our tour group to remove itself from the...
