Thin walls and rock hard beds…

One can find rock hard beds and paper thin walls in hotels around the corner and around the world.

The particular hotel I am recalling from a trip to Mexico was one of them. In the evenings I was restricted to watching the t.v. channel my next door neighbors were watching, since I could hear theirs [...]

The secrets of travel insurance…

The funny thing about travel and, indeed, about life, is that you can never really ensure anything.

You don’t know when an earthquake or other natural disaster will shake up a your peregrinations. You can’t predict when a provider will go out of business (though you can do some due diligence first, in case the [...]

Guidance…

I love a good travel guidebook. They aren’t normally the type of thing one reads cover to cover, but it turns out they can be.

The day before my final night in Mexico City, I finished all the reading materials I’d brought with me, and I didn’t feel like searching the city high or low for [...]