Category: Perceptive Travel
No matter what time of the year it is, it’s a good month for a road trip. Maybe you’ll head to another state, explore your own a little more, …
It was 16 years ago this week that we launched the multi-author Perceptive Travel Blog, with a focus on quirky places and stories that you won’t find anywhere else. …
The first thing I notice is that Juan Wayne, the resident tortoise, is missing. There’s a sign propped up next to the guestbook in the shared kitchen describing his …
Really, where did a decade-plus go?! On this day in March 2007, we launched this group travel blog as part of the Perceptive Travel webzine, so that you could come here for something …
Two things about this post: For most of my life, I never imagined that I would be going on a babymoon. Me? A mother? And a babymoon? Until recently, …
The first time I had a beignet is probably, for many people, they first time they’ve ever had a beignet–in New Orleans. I ate my first one (and second …
Kerry Dexter
June 25, 2018
travel stories, Africa travel, Asia travel, Australia & NZ travel, cruise travel, Europe travel, History, Kerry projects, Parks and preserves, Perceptive Travel, Travel, US travel
Rivers, lakes, oceans, beaches: waterways were among people’s earliest highways and means of travel. People lived near water for sustenance, for travel, for trade, and for joy, too. Sea …
We had been traveling through Eastern Europe for two weeks, and I hadn’t been able to stop talking about swimming. In fact, it had gone back even further: ever …
Kristin Winet
January 10, 2018
Travel, cruise travel, Europe travel, food & drink, green travel, History, Kristin projects, Perceptive Travel, photography, travel blogs
I’m not exactly a wine-tasting connoisseur, but I do know that when I drink wine I should be on the lookout for things. Things like floral, citrus, and oak. …
Kristin Winet
December 13, 2017
cruise travel, Europe travel, History, Kristin projects, Literary Travel, Perceptive Travel, photography, Travel, travel blogs, travel stories
We looked at each other at exactly the same time and said it almost simultaneously. I could live here. That’s what Coimbra does to a person like me, a …
Here’s a very important lesson about drinking port wine: don’t drink a lot of it. It’s not its syrupy sweetness or that it’s associated with being a dessert wine …
Daniel Pelser, a 30-something nature lover from Durbin, keeps coming back to Cape Town. “I can’t stay away from it,” he says in the South African accent that still …