DETAILS TO CONSIDER IN THE PLANNING OF YOUR NEXT RTW
August 19, 2008 by admin · Leave a Comment
When you begin to lay out your dream trip it’s a good idea to factor in the overall context of time of the year, seasons and temperature, major holidays and anything else that might affect the quality of your travel. If you have the flexibility to tailor your arrival to suit your tastes, then the more information you have the better off you’ll be. Read more
LINING UP YOUR AROUND THE WORLD AIR TICKETS
August 12, 2008 by admin · Leave a Comment
Until you have bought your airline tickets you do not have a trip, only a dream. There are so many variables. Where will you go? Which direction – East or West/Atlantic or Pacific? Which Hemisphere? How long will you be traveling and how much can you spend? Once you have a beginning framework, you narrow that down to possible countries and then possible cities within countries.
Some of your choices may turn out to be only fruitless desires. For instance, on my last trip I really wanted to visit Israel but that was the summer they were handing over the West Bank to the Palestinians. Tourists were to be seriously limited in their ability to freely travel about and that doesn’t fit my travel style. Perhaps I can include that country on this next time around. Other countries might prove to be too expensive and will throw your overall budget out of whack. Read more
GIVE YOURSELF PLENTY OF TIME TO GET YOUR INOCULATIONS
August 11, 2008 by admin · Leave a Comment
I wrote these tips prior to my last around the world trip and they are still pertinent. Since some inoculations are given in several doses, I began my trips to the Health Department almost a full year before my departure. Since most are still in effect, this time I will simply go in and see if I need any refreshers before my next trip, or anything specific to the countries I plan to visit. I must do that sooner, rather than later. Read more
RESEARCH AND PLANNING FOR AN AROUND THE WORLD JOURNEY
August 9, 2008 by admin · Leave a Comment
Anyone who so strongly desires to travel that they will go to the lengths required by an around the world trip can rightly be called a travel aficionado. We are the fans, the collectors, the devotees, the nuts, bolts and kooks of the normal traveling world. We don’t do groups or cruises and we, generally, don’t use travel agencies to get around. Nor do we reserve in advance. We are the renegades and we already know how to travel. Read more
TRAVEL vs STUFF
August 7, 2008 by admin · Leave a Comment
I’d like to share something I wrote in my journal on July 12, 2002. I was living in Aspen and already thinking about an around the world trip, which didn’t actually happen for three more years:
Sometimes I conduct little imaginary conversations to any naysayers in my family who might think that I’m being irresponsible and not “saving for the future,” by spending my money as I get it on something as ephemeral as travel. Nobody would bat an eyelash if I spent the same amount on a mobile home or a car. You couldn’t get much of either on what the year of travel is going to cost. And those things require constant investment and upkeep. I have learned that its very easy to find a place to live when one needs that, and transportation is always available, in some form or another. I don’t need to own it, at all. Read more
BUSTING MY BRAIN AND SCARING MYSELF
August 5, 2008 by admin · Leave a Comment
I’m a few hard-reading days into my new collection of Self Publishing books. All my Amazon.com books are here, having arrived almost instantaneously while I was polishing off my library volume. So, books fill my coffee table beside the sofa where I like to lounge while studying. My strength-trained body is forgetting its lessons. It seems so hard to schedule exercise, between reading and computer time. Our modern day work habits aren’t quite as physical as in the olden days, are they? Read more
MY STUDY HALL BEGINS
August 3, 2008 by admin · Leave a Comment
While my blogsite and my book manuscript are out of my hands and being worked on by the experts, I have decided to fill my time reading up on the subject of Print On Demand Publishing and becoming expert before decisions must be made about the actual publication. So, Amazon.com is shipping five books ordered the other day, and I have borrowed one from the library to begin my reading. Read more
EVERYBODY’S SHOES
August 2, 2008 by admin · Leave a Comment
There have been so very many tragic earthquakes, cyclones, volcanoes and tornadoes in the month of May, 2008, occurring in scattered locations all over the world. None have yet occurred in the areas where I have traveled, so I’m not visualizing a new friend and wondering if they have survived the recent tragedies. But, my potential friends are there and I just haven’t traveled yet to that part of the world to meet them. When I was in Central America, looking down into the cone of a smoldering volcano, or gazing up the slopes of another one, watching the lava show every night; I knew that it was simply an accepted reality that they will blow, someday. That seems to be the case in the Ring of Fire all over the Pacific. But, it will be a true horror and tragedy when that day comes for those who have built houses right up the mountainside. I sat beside the pool of my hotel in Costa Rica one night, chatting with the bartender as we watched the bright red lava run down from up above. Why the beautiful houses up there and why are the hotels around here expanding and building with such optimism? Wasn’t he worried about getting caught in a modern-day Pompei? “Oh, no! Not at all! Because of the direction of the earth’s rotation, any lava will pour down the other side and not onto us!” Read more
“THE SAGA OF THE SETH PARKER” or “THE INSATIABLE SEA” –
August 1, 2008 by admin · Leave a Comment
“THE SAGA OF THE SETH PARKER” or “THE INSATIABLE SEA” –
MY FEATURE LENGTH MOVIE SCRIPTS
This was my second dream, which has carried me along for many, many years. It started out as a true story manuscript written by my father, Russell Dickinson, in 1935. Too long for an article, too short for a book, I finally realized that it was ideal for a movie script, and I have crafted that into a wonderful screenplay, in several versions. But, who in Hollywood, is going to talk to a scriptwriter on social security? Right! So, here it sits! This fabulous and well-written (if I do say so myself) movie script gathers dust on my shelf, but gets better and better with age, as do I. Here is the back story on this dream: Read more
