Category: Perceptive Travel
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 …
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. …
Kristin Winet
March 8, 2017
Travel, green travel, History, Island travel, Kristin projects, Literary Travel, Parks and preserves, Perceptive Travel, photography, travel stories
It also ended. Three weeks after my family and I watched the earth being born, my mother-in-law sent me the news article from Hawaii News Now: “Kamokuna ocean cliff …