Happy New Year, friends! I trust you had a safe holiday and found enjoyment despite this ongoing pandemic. It’s a trying time for sure, so this year on this blog I want to sweep you away and take your imagination to other countries I’ve visited, share a few photos, and celebrate what’s to see and learn from getting out of our comfort zones and traveling.
One thing I can tell you right now that I learned is this: despite grim news from around the world, there are many more kind people on this planet than you might think.
All of that traveling I did with my husband, Hoyt L. Edge. We’ve been fortunate to see a bunch of faraway lands during the past twenty years and I’ve kept tons of journals, mementos, train tickets, you name it with the purpose of someday writing about those times and places.
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NOTE: Although most blog posts this year will focus on travel, you can be sure I always reserve the right to write about whatever captures my imagination.
Want to travel right now?
This very minute you can check out some of my past travel blogs already posted on my website. Blog Categories/Travel.
Next week: NEWS about Charlene’s forthcoming book
Watch for details here about From the Porch to the Page: A Guidebook for the Writing Life. It’s a multi-genre collection, with something for every reader and writer.
Publication target date is April 2022, if all goes according to plan.
Like my memoir Undertow, it will be released in paperback and ebook at major booksellers and independent bookstores.
Thanks for reading!
Your writer on the wing,
Charlene
Peggy Lantz
I’ll be looking forward to these blogs.
Charlene Edge
And I look forward to writing them, Peg. Thanks for reading!
John Arnett
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and
narrow-mindedness, and many of our
people need it sorely on these accounts.
Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men
and things cannot be acquired by
vegetating in one little corner of the earth all
one’s lifetime.” According to Mark Twain, travel is
the antidote for prejudice.
Charlene Edge
What a fabulous quote to start off this year of travel blogging. Thanks a million, John!
John Arnett
In addition to geographic-space travel, I enjoy time travel as in history, family history, and genealogy. I also have traveled spiritually by reading works of and about the mystics and religious personages of our past and present. Hoyt may have traveled in the parapsychological spirit world as well. Another type of travel I would suggest is vicariously touring the inner world of this material world—the inner life of plants, rocks (e.g. the carbon atoms of diamonds), and the animal world including our own bodies and the regions of memory wherever they are. In 1966 Rachel Welch stared in a movie called ” The Fantastic Voyage” in which via a miniature submarine she and Stephen Boyd traveled throughout the human body. Traveling is a great hobby. Thanks for the blog and sharing your experiences.
Kathleen Brandt
It’s good to get another blog from Charlene! Starts out the new year right. All the best to everyone and looking forward to the blogs — and the book!
Charlene Edge
Hi Kathleen, great to hear from you, too! Happy 2022.