The Backpacking Boomers

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...

We’re smack dab in the middle of chaos — the bus station in Dakar, Senegal. Hundreds of cars, trucks, vans and buses wait for passengers...

Africa beckons me and my husband Noel again. But where to go? The countries highest on our list are plagued by the rise and persistence...