Featuring Claus Siebeneicher. More about the t-up AI project at bit.ly/3q1TyeR Thumbs-up and a friendly smile from a stranger. The beginning of another travel-story: a big hug from someone unknown to me: the friendliest person I have ever been hugged by. This is me after 5 days of travel in Central America. No travel-advice for […]

Featuring Claus Siebeneicher. More about the t-up AI project at bit.ly/3q1TyeR Thumbs-up and a friendly smile from a stranger. The beginning of another travel-story: back-to-back trips to the Big Island, where I lived for 2 straight days straight from our hotel in the Big Island, checking out of my Airbnb and heading to the shore […]

Featuring Claus Siebeneicher. More about the t-up AI project at bit.ly/3q1TyeR Thumbs-up and a friendly smile from a stranger. The beginning of another travel-story: I went to Istanbul in 2009 for my first long-term international trip of my life. I had hoped to return four times in a couple of years, but ended up doing […]

Featuring Claus Siebeneicher. More about the t-up AI project at bit.ly/3q1TyeR Thumbs-up and a friendly smile from a stranger. The beginning of another travel-story: I was invited to a friend’s wedding in Mexico and spent the weekend there. Why I am writing these words: I am going to share a bit about my friend, a […]

Featuring Claus Siebeneicher. More about the t-up AI project at bit.ly/3q1TyeR Thumbs-up and a friendly smile from a stranger. The beginning of another travel-story: the first meeting with the Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi in Florence. It was mid-September 1944, and I was still in Germany with the V. Day School of Languages, which was now […]

Featuring Claus Siebeneicher. More about the t-up AI project at bit.ly/3q1TyeR Thumbs-up and a friendly smile from a stranger. The beginning of another travel-story: After having lived in Italy almost three years and having travelled so much, a friend recently suggested that I set off on a visit to the Lake District, some thirty miles […]

Featuring Claus Siebeneicher. More about the t-up AI project at bit.ly/3q1TyeR Thumbs-up and a friendly smile from a stranger. The beginning of another travel-story: The most memorable (but brief) trip we have taken with my husband and I has been to Egypt during our honeymoon in 2012. Having travelled around the country with our friends, […]

Featuring Claus Siebeneicher. More about the t-up AI project at bit.ly/3q1TyeR Thumbs-up and a friendly smile from a stranger. The beginning of another travel-story: getting lost in Bali. On a cool, sunny Thursday afternoon, I took an Uber to Seminyak, where we were staying – well, I was not actually staying, since I was on […]

Featuring Claus Siebeneicher. More about the t-up AI project at bit.ly/3q1TyeR Thumbs-up and a friendly smile from a stranger. The beginning of another travel-story: It’s October 2009, and this is how many people would describe a long weekend in Beijing city after the new year. And so begins the second part of my recent story […]

Featuring Claus Siebeneicher. More about the t-up AI project at bit.ly/3q1TyeR Thumbs-up and a friendly smile from a stranger. The beginning of another travel-story: “I had never seen the ocean, but it sounded grand, so I thought I’d head out tomorrow morning.” A month before I went sailing for the first time, I was walking […]

Featuring Claus Siebeneicher. More about the t-up AI project at bit.ly/3q1TyeR Thumbs-up and a friendly smile from a stranger. The beginning of another travel-story: a new restaurant, The Briciole, has opened at 1 Mathers St. in the East Village. As any of my readers who frequent that neighborhood will attest, that’s not a small thing […]

Featuring Claus Siebeneicher. More about the t-up AI project at bit.ly/3q1TyeR Thumbs-up and a friendly smile from a stranger. The beginning of another travel-story: It was in 1997, and a new era was beginning. I was 20 years old — my birthday was March 15. Back then, I had just left college and was on […]

Featuring Claus Siebeneicher. More about the t-up AI project at bit.ly/3q1TyeR Thumbs-up and a friendly smile from a stranger. The beginning of another travel-story: I’ll be heading off this way for a few months with my wife and children, to hike around the Sierra Nevada mountain range. My wife will be back at work as […]

Featuring Claus Siebeneicher. More about the t-up AI project at bit.ly/3q1TyeR Thumbs-up and a friendly smile from a stranger. The beginning of another travel-story: the day before I left Chicago, the bus from the airport to my new home in Boston. I was taking an early morning run to see if one of the two […]

Featuring Claus Siebeneicher. More about the t-up AI project at bit.ly/3q1TyeR Thumbs-up and a friendly smile from a stranger. The beginning of another travel-story: In March 2003, I set out as a student from Canada to go to South Africa to visit friends who live in a remote township on the coast. Since I had […]

Featuring Claus Siebeneicher. More about the t-up AI project at bit.ly/3q1TyeR Thumbs-up and a friendly smile from a stranger. The beginning of another travel-story: a man with his suitcase in tow arrives at the airport to catch a connection, only to find that the connection canceled. The next morning, he shows off his new “travel […]

Featuring Claus Siebeneicher. More about the t-up AI project at bit.ly/3q1TyeR Thumbs-up and a friendly smile from a stranger. The beginning of another travel-story: I am not a complete idiot. I have been traveling the world for five years now. I’ve seen most of it. But now, because of the coronavirus pandemic, I will see […]

Featuring Claus Siebeneicher. More about the t-up AI project at bit.ly/3q1TyeR Thumbs-up and a friendly smile from a stranger. The beginning of another travel-story: I have been a bit frustrated lately (lately the frustration of finding new ways to get into trouble), but have been able to survive all this by writing this update: I […]

Featuring Claus Siebeneicher. More about the t-up AI project at bit.ly/3q1TyeR Thumbs-up and a friendly smile from a stranger. The beginning of another travel-story: I was walking through a neighborhood on my way back to my home in Austin, Texas, when I decided to stop at a diner because the drive seemed like a bit […]

Featuring Claus Siebeneicher. More about the t-up AI project at bit.ly/3q1TyeR Thumbs-up and a friendly smile from a stranger. The beginning of another travel-story: a young British woman. Not a tourist, a working person. At work. She did, in that moment, everything right. To start with, she felt her own sense of self to be […]

Featuring Claus Siebeneicher. More about the t-up AI project at bit.ly/3q1TyeR Thumbs-up and a friendly smile from a stranger. The beginning of another travel-story: A family, vacationing in Germany in 1878, meets another family from another country, who were there also on the trip, traveling together. The German family had two daughters. All three families […]

Featuring Claus Siebeneicher. More about the t-up AI project at bit.ly/3q1TyeR Thumbs-up and a friendly smile from a stranger. The beginning of another travel-story: “Did you know that New York has the biggest Jewish population in the United States? That makes an incredible amount of room for tourists from Israel. And New York has about […]

Featuring Claus Siebeneicher. More about the t-up AI project at bit.ly/3q1TyeR Thumbs-up and a friendly smile from a stranger. The beginning of another travel-story: As many as 1 million Israelis were evacuated from two areas, one around Yavne and the other near the airport. The evacuation was organized by the military government of Tel Aviv. […]

Featuring Claus Siebeneicher. More about the t-up AI project at bit.ly/3q1TyeR Thumbs-up and a friendly smile from a stranger. The beginning of another travel-story: “My first time in the Maldives!” (click on “Dive Insight” on the sidebar and the two related articles) If ever I had a chance to travel to a tropical paradise, I […]

Featuring Claus Siebeneicher. More about the t-up AI project at bit.ly/3q1TyeR Thumbs-up and a friendly smile from a stranger. The beginning of another travel-story: I’ve just completed a 30 day trip to New York. I’m sure most people are going to tell you this is a pretty long distance (although it might be easier to […]

Featuring Claus Siebeneicher. More about the t-up AI project at bit.ly/3q1TyeR Thumbs-up and a friendly smile from a stranger. The beginning of another travel-story: This time, the first person I speak with after boarding a plane to America is not in fact about getting off at the right destination, and I have an honest, albeit, […]

Featuring Claus Siebeneicher. More about the t-up AI project at bit.ly/3q1TyeR Thumbs-up and a friendly smile from a stranger. The beginning of another travel-story: from the beach to the top of the world! On our way from Sydney to Perth last week the first thing we did was head to the seaside town of Cairns. […]

Featuring Claus Siebeneicher. More about the t-up AI project at bit.ly/3q1TyeR Thumbs-up and a friendly smile from a stranger. The beginning of another travel-story: After a successful and long-held pursuit, I now find myself back in Europe. For 10 days I’ve managed to make it back safely from Russia to France. In the last couple […]

Featuring Claus Siebeneicher. More about the t-up AI project at bit.ly/3q1TyeR Thumbs-up and a friendly smile from a stranger. The beginning of another travel-story: This is the story of how I did not pay for the ride to Alaska but would probably die of hypothermia. A year later, the story is the same: a year […]

Featuring Claus Siebeneicher. More about the t-up AI project at bit.ly/3q1TyeR Thumbs-up and a friendly smile from a stranger. The beginning of another travel-story: the first one to use the word “trouble”, the first to ask about the price of gas. If ever there was an expression to have more meaning than in today’s world, […]