I worked for the Boulder start-up website Home&Abroad for three years, writing and editing destination descriptions, and running the company blog.
Most of the travel blog entries are a few years old and a lot has changed since then (pandemic anyone?). Please forgive how dated they may sound.
- Forbes Finds Sexier Cities to Replace Heartbroken Denver on Top Single Cities ListDenver is no longer Forbes’s pick as America’s number one city for singles. Poor, sad Denver!
- Travel Hotspots to GoPopular tourist destinations one can replicate with a little creativity when unable to make the journey.
- Trains, Planes, and NostalgiaMy favorite train moment was a quiet night train on the way to Munich. We stopped through Ulm, where my Dad served in the army years before.
- Fidel Says “Adios!”… But Not ReallyAfter nearly 50 years of power, the ailing Fidel Castro announced today that he would not accept “the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.”
- Pilots Wanted: Preferably Ones Who Know How to FlyFlight schools are complaining that they are now understaffed because their teachers are being recruited away to actually be pilots due to a global pilot shortage.
- Wince-worthy MuseumsCruising around the Travel Channel, I stumbled across a description of the Icelandic Phallological Museum in Husavik, Iceland.
- The VERY Friendly SkiesThe German travel agency, OssiUrlaubs, taking bookings nudist daytrip flight from Erfurt to the Baltic Sea resort of Usedom.
- Flying the Final FrontierPlans are currently underway to build “the nation’s first commercial purpose-built spaceport”. The design for Spaceport America was unveiled in September of 2007.
- Happy Birthday King Bhumibol Adulyadej, Rama IXToday marks the 80th birthday of the King of Thailand, Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX).
- An RV with WingsThe aging gen-Xer 747 got the boot as the world largest, operational jumbo jet. There’s a new young punk in town, and it made its debut flight from Singapore to Sydney.
- ‘Luck be a lady’ and give Indonesia a breakIndonesia has had a rough go of things, from earthquakes to tsunamis. Nine years ago I was in Indonesia when the government fell.