Hole In The Donut Travels

Last week I was one of only 25 bloggers invited to submit a story about my most humorous travel experience to the website of the French government tourist office. Once the stories are posted, the public is invited to read them and vote for their favorite. Voting automatically registers participants for a chance to [...]

I voted in Florida’s Presidential Primary today. This is the most interesting, exciting, and engaging presidential election of my entire life, and I have a few years on me. I’ve always felt that voting was a right and an obligation, though there have been times I was so apathetic about the choices that I skipped [...]

I LOVE to travel. I can only stay put for a few months before I get the urge to head out for another one of the distant, exotic places that I haven’t yet checked off my list. Unfortunately, I can’t travel all the time. Once in a while I have to stick around and make [...]

I admit it. I’m a coffee snob. I fancy myself to be something of an expert on good coffee. Once, in Kauai, I spent an entire day touring a small coffee plantation to learn how the beans were grown, harvested, sorted, graded, roasted, packaged, and marketed.
I know that, at $160 per pound, Kopi Luwak is [...]

A few weeks back I was invited by Darren Cronian of Travel-Rants.com to participate in a Travel Blog Carnival. Each week, those of us lucky enough to be invited email Darren a link to a travel article that we have posted during the past week. Darren then picks one of us each week to review [...]

The band, Five For Fighting, has generously agreed to donate $0.49 to Autism Speaks every time the following video is viewed:
What Kind Of World Do You Want
The funding goes toward research studies to help find a cure. When you have a moment, please visit the above link to watch the video and pass it along [...]

A few days ago, Forbes Magazine released their 2008 list of the top ten most dangerous travel destinations in the world. Among them, in position #9, was Zimbabwe, Africa. I am extremely familiar with the problems in Zimbabwe, since it was one of my destinations during my around-the-world trip last year.
I had always dreamed [...]

This is the kind of world I want to live in.:

Many thanks to Leah at aN eclectiC 9 for making me aware of this amazing presentation. If everyone could experience the kind of unconditional love and caring exhibited by Johnny the bagger it would be a much better world.

Many of my regular readers are aware that, about a year ago, I walked away from a successful real estate career to pursue writing. I slapped a backpack on my back and headed out to travel the world for six months. I returned to Florida in early October last year and since then, have been [...]

I cringe every time I see another commercial for a prescription drug. In the first place, I think we are over prescribed and over medicated in this country. I believe doctors rely far too much on medicines that mask symptoms, rather than trying to discover and treat the root cause of the malady. [...]