The Avid Traveler
Unfiltered Essays Exploring The Essence Of Travel
Welcome to
The Avid Traveler
This website is dedicated to a peripatetic's musings and still-unanswered questions. The purpose is to ponder and reflect and perhaps illuminate the reasons why we travel — and why some choose not to.
Something About
Travel Here
I'll write something here
about travel
Are You A Traveler
Or Tourist?
We'll answer that question
soon
A Traveler In
Romance
After having read the entire collection of books by W. Somerset Maugham, I set off on a series of adventures inspired by Maugham's "The Moon and Sixpence," fictionalized on the life of the post-impressionist painter Paul Gaugin, who in 1891 sailed to the tropics to escape European civilization and "everything that is artificial and conventional."
A Travel Writer, In Real Life
The life of a travel writer is not as glamorous as you might imagine. I'm divorced, see my kids less than I would like, and I have to work extra hard to keep up a network of close friends. But I couldn't imagine being more fulfilled than living the life I am living. Take a look into the life of a travel writer — warts and all.
Living In Two Worlds
You may be able to answer emphatically when someone asks you where your home is. I can't. Splitting my life between two places, the concept of home takes on new meaning. Home is where the hat is? Not quite, but where home is becomes a bit more ambiguous — and so does the concept of family and belonging.
The Art of Travel
There are tricks to travel — or at least tricks to making travel more effective and comfortable. Explore "The Art of Travel" to learn more about how to make your next travel experience the richest that it can be.