According to travel websites, there are either eighteen or seven or ten or five types of travelers. With labels like “The Hunter Gatherer,” “The Collector,” “Free Spirit” and my favorite, “Chatty Cathy,” I read through every one of them and still couldn’t find me. None of them addressed the kind of traveler I am: “Giant […]
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Saving Face on Vacation
I know a few people who are in the skin care and beauty biz and I have a request: Can you come up with a cream or something that takes away Vacation Face and Travel Body? It’s a real 21st century problem. The first person who invents something that when you look in a hotel […]
My Next Career: Trip Packing Advisor
Ever since I read The Accidental Tourist I’ve thought that a travel writer would be a good job for me. If Rick Steves wants to send me to some obscure Third World country, I’d be happy to sit on the plane and write ethereal observations in William Hurt’s soothing voice. I would go to the […]
One Lucky, Scared Girl
I’ve been traveling around a lot lately, and it’s been a wild ride for a Hubbard girl who didn’t visit much of anywhere except Hershey, Pennsylvania, until she was a grown-up. I didn’t fly in an airplane until I was in college, didn’t leave the United States of America until I was 20, and I didn’t […]