Category: Ship Log

  • Flashback to Chile

    The story below is an original version of my travel story that ran in the March 2012 issue of International Living Magazine. Although we’ve detoured since this was written, we hope to return to South America before long. We enjoyed Chile top to bottom, from the Atacama desert to Patagonia, from the coast to the…

  • Mark Twain on Travel

    Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime. – Innocents Abroad I have found out there ain’t no surer way to…

  • Is it too late to change my mind?

    Is it too late to change my mind?

    To hear Monica McCarthy tell it, one should have a grip on ones core values before making big decisions. She should know. This past year she suspended her acting career and cancelled her wedding. So I started thinking about big decisions in my life and the core values I hold. Core values. Hmmm. Is it…

  • Nature Calls

    Continuing my grand tradition of public experimentation, I present the first video posted to HMS Henning, but surely not the last. This is a simple presentation, filled with colors (grayscale), motion (subtile) and music (sorry, that would be a copyright violation). These silkworms were busy demonstrating their unique worminess at the Jim Thompson house, now…

  • 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!