Category: encounters
The Mississippi River is central to the geography of the United States. It is also central to natural and social history of the United States. The Mississippi River basin has …
Kerry Dexter
May 28, 2018
US travel, City or urban travel, encounters, food & drink, History, Kerry projects, Parks and preserves, Travel, travel stories, world music
The American southwest: a land of high desert, rushing river, Native tribes, cowboys, ranchers, city dwellers, deep canyons, quiet forest, and high mountains The American southwest is a landscape that …
You’ve been there: a neighborhood, a street, a whole town that immediately seems welcoming. There’s lots going on and you feel as though you’re invited to join in, even …
Brazil. The name might bring to mind the Amazon, the jungles of South America, exotic wildlife. You might think of a different sort of wild life, the revelers who dance through …
Twelve days of Christmas: you might be thinking that these are twelve days leading up to Christmas. The twelve days of Christmas, though, are the days between Christmas and …
Las Posadas: in Spanish, those words mean the inns. They have also become the name for events which are part of the celebration of Advent and Christmas in many …
Community: it’s an ever changing, ever engaging aspect of travel. We come from community, travel through communities, engage and explore differences and things that connect. We connect with each …
In the fast paced heart of Dublin City,. you can step back in time, into quiet, into voices from the past… There are stone tools which people living on …
Mzoli’s restaurant has gotten a lot of press recently. This is just a taste of what the food critics have been writing about it: Everyone, at least once in …
China: distant, foreign, hard to know… but is that true? Even if all that is so, might you want to travel to China anyway? “It’s a fantastic time to …
Kristin Winet
April 13, 2017
encounters, food & drink, History, Kristin projects, Perceptive Travel, photography, Travel, travel blogs, travel stories, travel websites, weirdness
Matilda is the largest one, but Matilda is not an octopus. She used to be one, a sleek, slippery body, eight legs, and a bulbous head and shifty eyes. …
Saint Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland. He is celebrated especially on 17 March. As 17 March approaches and as memories of the day linger, people across the …