'Staying Alive By Not Staying Still'
Happy New Year, 2022! Forty-seven years ago I was a recent college grad, about to begin a long career as a journalist starting in New Jersey, then California, then to …
Today’s the day I make 70 years on this planet, and I’d never been inked.
Until now. It was time to get it done.
I chose a simple idea, a tribute to my original influencer, the great American bard, author of Leaves of Grass, Song of The Open Road, Walt Whitman.
I took four words from that latter poem, that paen to the glory of wanderlust that sums up what I do and focuses my aim as senior solo traveler better than anything else could.
“Forever alive, forever forward.”
Just a few days ago, I walked through the streets of Batumi, Georgia, second-largest city in this beautiful country, which straddles the eastern edge of Europe and western edge of Asia, an area of the world often called Eurasia.
Batumi boasts the beautiful Black Sea coastal resorts and the spectacular Caucasus mountains, the tallest mountains in Europe.
It was a quiet Sunday morning, my first full day in Batumi after a 5.5-hour excursion by train from Tbilisi the day before.
Ever want to give a new fellow traveler your contact info but don’t have a pencil, pen, or piece of paper to write on?
Then you grab your phone and put a note somewhere in there, and find out later you didn’t type it in correctly?
Try carrying your own personalized travel cards to hand out to whomever you meet.