Category: Travel Logistics

  • Eleven Sure Signs I’m (still) in Council Bluffs, Iowa

    Eleven Sure Signs I’m (still) in Council Bluffs, Iowa

    Or, how I pass my time in the family home of my S.O. 1. I’m entering every damn contest I come across…especially if it involves travel. No worries if the entry takes hours to complete; I have plenty of time. And I’m motivated. (See #5.) 2. I’m playing not one, but four, Scrabble games via Facebook.…

  • Back Home on the Road

    Back Home on the Road

    On the road with my Music Shuffle. I’ll tell you the 25 songs that came up on my iPod Shuffle this week, and you tell me yours. If I complain now and then about traveling, pardon me. Besides episodes of claustrophobia, punctuated by severe annoyance at every little habit of those sitting around me (e.g.…

  • Under the weather and on the road: 13 ways to feel better

    Under the weather and on the road: 13 ways to feel better

    This helpful post has been moved to our travel blog, Travel Past 50. Click here for 13 Ways to Feel Better. And get well soon!

  • Train of Thought to February

    Train of Thought to February

    [Cairns, QLD, Australia] I’ve been working on moving my website from WordPress to my own place, HMSHenning.com. So instead of writing posts in the last couple weeks, I’ve been taking notes that have quickly disintegrated into random musings, which I am only too willing to share. Meanwhile, we’re in Australia, a land of many wonders,…

  • Quotable Travel Quotes

    Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty-his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. –Aldous Huxley, quoting from Matador Network’s 50 Most Inspiring Travel Quotes   When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all…