After several months of planning my trip to Botswana, exchanging emails with Roger Turski of Safari Lifestyles (Maun, Botswana; phone +267 7606 1186, www.safarilifestyles.com), with excitement and anticipation, the day had finally arrived. Roger is enthusiastic about introducing travelers to his adopted country (he’s from England), and he also is an avid photographer. 

Botswana had been on my agenda for 20 years, and now it was finally coming true! 

The journey...

In all my travels, I had never been to Australia, but it was all my husband, Steve, and I needed to gain ITN’s “7 Continents” award.

Australia is almost as large as the continental United States, so planning our 3-week trip (Sept. 18-Oct. 9, 2017) required hard choices about what to include and what to leave for another time. 

After studying several travel books, I decided on these five areas: Sydney, the Atherton Tablelands, the Great Barrier Reef, the...

In August 2015, I organized a trip to Ethiopia that took me across the width and breadth of that beautiful, ancient land. During that trip, I visited many of its world- renowned sites and a number of historical cities and saw some of its natural wonders, such as the towering Simien Mountains and the Blue Nile Gorge. 

In early September 2017 I returned to Ethiopia, a country, along with its people, that I had become particularly fond of. I wanted to retrace the steps of my earlier...