Travelogue

As you can probably gather from my previous posts, I tend to try and integrate some sort of “wider message” into my travel writing. I do this for a couple of reasons, but mainly I don’t think I am all that interesting and I prefer to share the random observations…

My affair with the mountains started with my first Himalayan trek to valley of Flowers , Uttarakhand in early July -2019 . Since then mountains never stopped to amaze me . That majestic view captivates me . …

Hopefully, I will derail or sink to the bottom of the ocean. This hideous mish-mash of train and water metaphors is insufferable. Let me write when I get to Paris. I will allow this mental Maglev to glide down all the way to the Gare Terminale Atlantique. The nerve of…

What I learned about life from my Swiss travels — It’s one of those countries where you can sit in a train and look out of the window forever. Yes, I’m talking about Switzerland — the land of pristine lakes and rivers, snow-capped mountains, delicious chocolate and cheese with sounds of cow bells and train whistles in the background. When…

Where a once militant atheist bends his knee to religious experience — In the four years that I lived inside my college, my soul was broken and remade and then broken again. I left it behind twelve years ago. It is funny that in all that time I have never known how to describe it. Don’t get me wrong, I know what…

An homage to the RC soaring travel blog articles of years past. — Earlier in May, I had a somewhat last minute business trip to my company’s headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland. Switzerland is kind of a slope soaring mecca. As a resident of flat central Indiana, I always enjoy trying to get some RC slope soaring in whenever I am near a place…

By Susan D. Johnson, Ph.D. “Why Susan? WHY?” That’s the question people ask about my travels to icy Antarctica. A decade ago, before it was popular to put on your bucket list, I decided to visit all seven continents before I turned 50. …

A tested and trusted way of saving the 21st century traveler some time and money. — “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.” Uh-oh… I can imagine the non-travelers reading this article sitting up in their chairs right now, the hair rising on the nape of their necks. …