The last time I traveled to Australia, in the mid-1980s, I remember being fumigated on the airplane – flight attendants running around the aisles and seats with bug balms, spraying hither and yon – before they let us out, wheezing onto the tarmac in Sydney. After six weeks of a recent trip to Australia and…
Hello from Germany where I am helping my son and his family of five pack up their house and move all their belongings back to the United States after three years abroad. All is well, or will be totally when the U.S. passport arrives for one-month-old Bethany, who will need it to make her grand…
"The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road" by Paul Theroux (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; $25). Paul Theroux celebrates his decades of wandering the globe in his latest book by collecting the best writing about travel from others, whose work shaped him as both a reader and a traveler. He writes of the…