The Backpacking Boomers

Even after fifty years there's always firsts. New places, new adventures, new cultures, new opportunities to escape the ordinary. And now...

Luck was with us. Our mail — handwritten letters from family and friends back home, along with a copy of our local broadsheet, the Aylmer...

We feel like contestants on the Amazing Race as we run through the train station in Takayama trying to find the platform for our train....

We’d been warned about bribery at the Senegal-Gambia border. Guards search luggage looking for something to declare illegal and demand a...