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Clean your devices and be selective about connections – especially when traveling. Sorry, but your cell phone might be a germ warehouse. It rests on counters, drops on floors and gets handled all day long. I know that it is…
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Alternative upscale shelters to book while traveling. Poshtels I have never stayed in a hostel and I’m not sure such a stay is in my future. I envision many wooden bunk beds, with lumpy, sagging mattresses in one crowded room,…
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“Adventure is worthwhile in itself.” Amelia Earhart Tiny Glass Frog Some friends had recommended an Amazon River Cruise to us. Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times! We love African safaris, so we thought this…
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Entertaining ourselves without technology. Last week I was crossing the hot, remote Uzbek desert with five other women when our van broke down. We found shade and settled in while the leak got fixed. ASE subscriber, Charlotte S. pulled out…
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Guest Writer Carol Santora Reports on her trip to Moscow. Over the years, we have enjoyed many novels that included history and intrigue about the Kremlin, Red Square, KGB/Lubyanka, Vladimir Putin and recently the Hotel Metropol. This summer we had…
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South of Portland is day trip distance from Boston and the Down East towns like Bar Harbor, Northeast Harbor, and Blue Hill are well-known destinations for perennial summer visitors. An often over-looked part of the coast is Mid-Coast Maine. The…
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Sharon Lorenzo shares her Bhutan adventure with ASE readers. Largest Buddha in the world, in Bhutan Landlocked between China and India in the Eastern Himalayan region is the world’s smallest economy with a population of approximately 798,000 people in…
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Enjoy long, stress-free drives. Spring, summer and early fall are the seasons for road trips, with the winter holidays an isolated spike. A survey done by Starbucks showed that of the 1,000 adults surveyed, 55% planned their road trips and 45%…
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Is travel redundancy smart or lazy? There are many advantages to repeating vacations year after year. We took our kids to the same spot in Florida for spring break for many, many years. They felt it was a second home….
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