Asia articles

Best and worst places to drive
Features, September 2005 issue.
I have never been tempted to write to a magazine before, but the topic Best & Worst Places to Drive immediately drove me to my computer! (Excuse the pun.)

A novel approach to travel
Travelers' Intercom, September 2005 issue.
In 1998 I became interested in the Silk Road, so a friend lent me a book, “The Silk Road — A Novel of Eighth Century CHINA” by Jeanne Larsen. It was interesting for the places, the place of women and a bit of magical realism.

Check your passport
Travelers' Intercom, September 2005 issue.
We have a trip to Russia planned in a few months and I just found out that to visit Russia a visa is needed and there must be two blank pages in the visa section of one’s passport.

Modernizing the greatest shortcut on Earth
Travelers' Intercom, September 2005 issue.
What cruise destination is older than most grandmothers, needs an $8 billion face-lift and yet still earns $1 billion in revenues every year? It’s the amazing Panama Canal, one of the seven wonders of the modern world.

Mosques of Kairouan, Tunisia
Columns, September 2005 issue.
Fifteen hundred years ago, Kairouan was only a desert crossroads, a caravan stop in the sands of what is now Tunisia in North Africa. But this quickly changed. In fewer than 100 years following the death of Muhammad in A.D.

Report Cards
Report Cards, September 2005 issue.
On CHINA, May-June, ’05. . .

Boarding Pass
Columns, August 2005 issue.
Dear Globetrotter: Welcome to the 354th issue of your monthly overseas travel magazine.

China — a Silk Road journey
Features, August 2005 issue.
I had wanted to do the Silk Road again for some time and finally talked my husband into going. Since I planned on spending 30 days, I added a few places to the beginning of the itinerary that I had not yet visited.

Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova
Travelers' Intercom, August 2005 issue.
In the ’90s, my wife, Alice, and I three times hired a car and drove through the newly opened countries of Eastern Europe, but we had yet to visit the three countries that were former Soviet states: Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova. In May ’05 we made up for that omission.

France’s ancient cities of stone
Features, August 2005 issue.
The hostess of our château pensione near Naucelle, France, was speaking about her visit to the United States.